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U.S. President Donald Trump assured Alaskans that politics will not play a role in the federal permitting decision for the Pebble copper-gold-molybdenum-rhenium mine in Southwest Alaska.... — Updated 9/17/2020 Full story

Constantine Metal Resources Ltd. came out on the winning side of a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on a lawsuit brought by Southeast Alaska Conservation Council and others that... — Updated 9/1/2020 Full story

Ascot Resources Ltd. Aug. 14 announced the discovery of high-grade gold mineralization at Day Zone, a new area about 300 meters west from the planned underground development at Big... — Updated 9/18/2020 Full story

White Rock Minerals Ltd. Sept. 15 reported that it tested the Last Chance gold discovery with 1,990 meters of drilling in eight holes before a blanket of snow marked the end of the 2020... — Updated 9/17/2020

Redstar Gold Corp. Sept. 10 announced it is investing C$6 million in an 8,000-meter drilling and exploration program at its Unga gold project in Alaska. This program got underway earlier... — Updated 9/17/2020

Northway Resources Corp. Sept. 10 reported that recently completed geochemical and geophysical surveys have identified some very compelling exploration targets on the company's Healy... — Updated 9/17/2020

Tectonic Metals Inc. Sept. 14 reported additional high-grade gold intercepts from drilling at the Michigan zone on the company's Tibbs project in Alaska's Goodpaster Mining District.... — Updated 9/17/2020 Full story

StrikePoint Gold Inc. Sept. 9 said its 2020 exploration programs in British Columbia's Golden Triangle are being challenged by COVID-19, weather, and a slow return of assay results.... — Updated 9/17/2020

HighGold Mining Inc. Sept. 9 reports that the 2020 drill program on its Johnson Tract project in Southcentral Alaska picked up where the 2019 program left off – drills tapping long sect... — Updated 9/17/2020 Full story

Skeena Resources Ltd. Sept. 9 reported additional consistent and high-grade gold and silver assay results from the 2020 phase 1 drill program at its Eskay Creek project in British... — Updated 9/17/2020

ATAC Resources Ltd. Sept. 14 announced that the initial phase of 2020 exploration at its Rau project in the Yukon indicates the presence of a large orogenic gold system at the Airstrip... — Updated 9/17/2020

PolarX Ltd. Sept. 14 reported that this summer's drilling has encountered strong near-surface copper-gold mineralization at Zackly East, extending this emerging new resource area on the... — Updated 9/17/2020

Freegold Ventures Ltd. Sept. 11 reports results from a second hole that validates its hypothesis that higher grade gold mineralization extends west from the historic Cleary Hill Mine,... — Updated 9/17/2020

Resolution Minerals Ltd. Sept. 17 reported that the seventh hole of the 2020 season at 64North project has tapped a seven-meter-thick quartz vein at Aurora indicative of the Pogo-style... — Updated 9/17/2020

Alexco Resource Corp. is pulling all the pieces together to resume production at its Keno Hill Silver District mine in the Yukon by the end of the year. Alexco produced silver at Keno... — Updated 9/17/2020 Full story

Newcrest Mining Ltd. and Imperial Metals Corp. reported additional strong gold-copper intercepts from drilling at the East zone high-grade pod at the Red Chris Mine in northwestern... — Updated 9/11/2020

Tectonic Metals Inc. has cut a deal with Doyon Ltd. that significantly expands its gold exploration properties in Alaska's Goodpaster Mining District and strengthens its mutually benefici... — Updated 9/11/2020 Full story

Golden Predator Mining Corp. Aug. 31 published an updated resource estimate to support a feasibility study that will provide details of a plan to re-establish gold mining at the... — Updated 9/11/2020

Fortune Minerals Ltd. Sept. 3 announced the start of a geophysical program to further delineate expansion drill targets east of the company's Nico gold-cobalt-bismuth-copper deposit in... — Updated 9/11/2020

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has created a new office specifically focused on issues unique to the American West, including clean-up of legacy hardrock mine sites.... — Updated 9/11/2020 Full story

Australia-based Nova Minerals Ltd. Aug. 31 announced it has plenty of cash in the bank to advance Korbel resource blocks A and B at its Estelle gold project in Alaska through the... — Updated 9/11/2020

An invisible line that divides a community in the towns of Stewart, British Columbia and Hyder, Alaska has become a lot more tangible with COVID-19 and the international travel restrictio... — Updated 9/10/2020 Full story

Millrock Resources Inc. and Resolution Minerals Ltd. Sept. 10 provided results from two more holes drilled at 64North and an update on other exploration activities being carried out... — Updated 9/10/2020 Full story

Sabina Gold & Silver Corp. Sept. 3 reported strong gold intercepts in two additional holes drilled into the upper portions of the high-grade corridor at Umwelt Underground on the... — Updated 9/3/2020

Rising metal prices are helping to soften the blow COVID-19 has landed on Alaska's mining sector in 2020. While mining has been deemed an essential business in Alaska, which has helped... — Updated 8/27/2020 Full story