The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
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Blackwolf Copper and Gold Ltd. Feb. 23 announced the first update of the year with highly encouraging surface sample assay results from 2021 reconnaissance exploration programs at its Southeast Alaska properties. Located at the end of the Alaskan Panhandle, on Prince of Wales Island, the historic Niblack Mine is located over 1,000 meters north of the current NI 43-101 mineral resources in the Lookout and Trio zones of the property. According to a 2011 calculation, these...
Victoria Gold Corp. Feb. 24 reported that 6,103 meters of drilling completed in nine holes testing Eagle Deep indicates the potential to add millions of ounces of gold below the reserves at the company's Eagle Mine in the Yukon. Exploring the potential of extending the Eagle deposit from the 350-meter depth considered in the current mine plan to depths of at least 650 meters is part of Victoria's plan to delineate enough mineralization to keep the Eagle Mine in operation out t...
From an expected multimillion-dollar exploration program on the hardrock sources of the placer gold discovered by Felix Pedro in the Fairbanks Mining District 120 years ago to preliminary investigations of the Nikolai nickel-copper-cobalt-chromium-platinum group element project recently added to its portfolio, Millrock Resources Inc. is looking forward to a busy year of exploration on the properties it has generated in Alaska. "Millrock is looking forward to a very active...
In a move criticized by a wide swath of Alaska policymakers and trade organizations, the Biden administration has filed a motion to reverse the federal authorizations for a proposed 211-mile road to the mineral-rich Ambler Mining District in Northwest Alaska. "You would think President Biden would want to improve access to American sources of copper and other strategic minerals that are needed in our combined efforts to increase renewables. Instead, actions like this only...
With inflation pushing costs higher and billions of dollars of COVID relief and infrastructure spending flowing into Alaska from Washington D.C., creating a competitive market for construction contractors, the Peak Gold Joint Venture has decided to cut back on the preliminary development that was originally planned for its Manh Choh gold mine project near the communities of Tetlin and Tok in eastern Alaska. Peak Gold JV – a partnership between Kinross Gold Corp. (70%) and C...
North Arrow Minerals Inc. Feb 22 released a processing update from the bulk sampling program at its shared Naujaat diamond project and kimberlite indicator mineral results from samples collected in 2021 from its Pikoo and Loki diamond projects. As its partner Burgundy Diamond Mines Ltd. advances bulk sampling at the Naujaat project in Nunavut, Canada, North Arrow revisited its 100%-owned Loki diamond project in the Lac de Gras region of Northwest Territories. For Naujaat, proc...
Ascot Resources Ltd. Feb. 22 reported high-grade gold intercepts from its 2021 drilling at Big Missouri, the first deposit to be mined with the start of modern operations at the company's Premier gold-silver project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Home to a past-producing mine that last operated in the 1990s, Premier has all the major infrastructure in place to resume operations. A 2020 feasibility study details plans for an operation at Premier that is expected to...
Banyan Gold Corp. Feb. 21 announced the results from 21 diamond holes drilled during the company's 2021 exploration program at the Powerline deposit located on its AurMac gold property in the Yukon. "This latest batch of assay results from our 2021 drill program continues to showcase the extensive nature of gold mineralization around the Powerline deposit on the AurMac property," said Banyan Gold President and CEO Tara Christie. Highlights from the latest batch include: • 5...
PolarX Ltd. Feb. 23 reported that its 2021 drill program at Caribou Dome has tapped thick lenses of high-grade copper that the outstanding quality of the mineral resource and potential for developing a mine at this deposit on the Australia-based company's Alaska Range property. As its name suggests, this property covers a 22-mile- (35 kilometers) long stretch of the majestic and mineral-rich Alaska mountain range that arcs across the middle of the Far North state. PolarX'...
Grande Portage Resources Ltd Feb. 24 reported partial drill results from its summer and fall 2021 drill program at the Herbert Gold project in Southeast Alaska. Completed in late October, the results from these drill holes are from infill and expansion drilling and are expected to be added to the company's NI 43-101 resource estimate reported at a base case mineral resources cut-off grade of 0.3 grams per metric ton gold and consists of an indicated resource of 1.2 million oz...
