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Pebble Limited Partnership has submitted a compensatory mitigation plan for Pebble, which is the final piece needed for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to finalize a record of decision... — Updated 11/25/2020

In a major setback for building a mine at the largest undeveloped deposit of copper, gold, and rhenium known to exist on Earth, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has denied federal... — Updated 11/25/2020 Full story

A highly anticipated and long-awaited batch of assay results show that Freegold Ventures Ltd.'s 2020 drill program at Golden Summit continues to tap bonanza grade gold along with the... — Updated 11/25/2020

Restructured and under new leadership, Heatherdale Resources Ltd. is gearing up for a drill program to expand some of the high-grade targets at its Niblack copper-gold-silver-zinc... — Updated 11/25/2020

Following the Yukon Environmental and Socio-Economic Assessment Board's (YESAB) recommendation that the proposed mine the Kudz Ze Kayah (KZK) project be allowed to proceed to permitting,... — Updated 11/25/2020

Ambler Metals LLC plans to invest US$27 million to advance the Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects in Northwest Alaska during 2021. The budget and program approved by equal partners in Ambler... — Updated 11/25/2020

HighGold Mining Inc. Nov. 18 reports that the latest batch of assay results from the 2020 program at Johnson Tract continue to expand high-grade gold, copper, and zinc mineralization at... — Updated 11/25/2020

Constantine Metal Resources Ltd. Nov. 19 reported that this year's prospecting and soil sampling has confirmed historically reported high-grade gold mineralization at Big Nugget Gold and... — Updated 11/25/2020

Victoria Gold Corp. Nov. 16 reported long intersection of strong gold mineralization in the final 13 holes drilled at the Raven target on the company's 555-square-kilometer (214 square... — Updated 11/25/2020

Banyan Gold Corp. Nov. 16 reports that recent assay results demonstrate the expansion potential of the Powerline zone on the company's AurMac gold property in the Yukon. A road... — Updated 11/25/2020

Ascot Resources Ltd. Nov. 19 reports that drilling has tapped gold between the newly discovered Day Zone and the Big Missouri gold deposit on the company's Premier gold-silver project jus... — Updated 11/25/2020

Dominion Diamond Mines Nov. 13 announced it will be recalling roughly 60 furloughed employees to prepare for an anticipated restart of its Ekati diamond mine in Northwest Territories. In... — Updated 11/25/2020

Fireweed Zinc Ltd. Nov. 23 announced that it has nearly doubled its land position in the Macmillan Pass area of eastern Yukon through the acquisition of two claim blocks that cover zinc,... — Updated 11/25/2020 Full story

Copper Fox Metals Inc. Nov. 24 reported that it is having a preliminary economic assessment completed for Schaft Creek, a copper-gold-molybdenum project in northwestern British Columbia... — Updated 11/25/2020 Full story

Experts from the University of Alaska Fairbanks' Mining and Petroleum Training Service (MAPTS) will help Greenland establish an underground mine training center as interest in the Arctic... — Updated 11/25/2020 Full story

Heliostar Metals Ltd. Nov. 23 announced it tapped gold-silver mineralization in the first hole the company has ever drilled at the Aquila target on its Unga project on the Alaska... — Updated 11/25/2020 Full story

A new era of mining has begun at Alexco Resource Corp.'s Keno Hill silver-zinc-lead project in Canada's Yukon. "Initial commissioning of our mill is a significant milestone on our... — Updated 11/25/2020 Full story

As a private company, Western Alaska Copper & Gold Company has done a great job steadily advancing the multiple precious and base metals deposits and targets across its 34,000-acre Il... — Updated 11/25/2020 Full story

With it becoming increasingly apparent that Joe Biden will be confirmed as the 46th President of the United States, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski believes the coming years will be... — Updated 11/25/2020 Full story

Tectonic Metals Inc. Nov. 12 announced that its 26-hole rotary air blast drill program at Seventymile has confirmed the company's geological model for this eastern Alaska gold... — Updated 11/19/2020

Benchmark Metals Inc. Nov. 9 reported that long sections of gold and silver mineralization tapped at the southern end of Cliff Creek has underscored the resource building potential of... — Updated 11/19/2020

Seabridge Gold Inc. Nov. 11 reported that this year's 8,961-meter drill program at Iskut provides further evidence of a large porphyry copper-gold system lying below the drilling... — Updated 11/19/2020

Osisko Metals Inc. Nov. 12 reports that its latest batch of drill results includes one hole that indicates a major expansion of O53, one of the deposits that make up the large zinc-lead... — Updated 11/12/2020

Enduro Metals Corp. Nov. 11 reported that the resampling of core from a historic hole drilled at its Newmont Lake project in Northern British Columbia has revealed a much longer interval... — Updated 11/12/2020

Grande Portage Resources Ltd. Nov. 11 announced the completion of a roughly 8,500-meter drill program at Herbert Gold that involved 21 holes drilled outside the resource area at this... — Updated 11/12/2020