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Blackwolf Copper and Gold Ltd. June 8 reported that permitting for its Niblack project has been granted, allowing surface exploration work to begin at this Southeast Alaska polymetallic property. "This authorization now permits Blackwolf to drill from surface to expand current resources, to continue testing our successful new geological model for VMS mineralization, to complete IP geophysical work to explore for buried massive sulphides along the productive host horizon and...
Scottie Resources Corp. June 9 announced that it plans to carry out 15,000 meters of drilling this year at its Scottie Gold Mine project about 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Stewart, British Columbia. This property is home to the Scottie Mine, which produced 95,426 ounces of gold from ore averaging 16.2 grams per metric ton gold over five years of operation beginning in 1981. Roughly 12,000 meters of this year's drill program at Scottie, slated to begin later this month,...
With renewed interest in nuclear to generate zero-carbon electricity for the clean energy future, coupled with Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine, the past-producing Ross-Adams uranium mine on Ucore Rare Metals Inc.'s Bokan Mountain project in Southeast Alaska has caught the attention of unnamed parties interested in this potential domestic source of nuclear fuel. While Ucore says it is entertaining the unsolicited offers to investigate Bokan's uranium potential, any efforts on t...
Graphite One Inc. June 8 reported that its 2021 drilling at Graphite Creek continued to confirm that this deposit, approximately 37 miles north of Nome, Alaska, is the largest and highest-grade graphite resource in the United States. According to a 2019 calculation, Graphite Creek hosts 10.95 million metric tons of measured and indicated resources averaging 7.8% (850,534 metric tons) graphitic carbon, plus 91.89 million metric tons of inferred resource averaging 8% (7.34 milli...
Constantine Metal Resources Ltd. June 6 announced the appointment of Ernie Siemoneit to the position of project manager and senior engineer for the Palmer copper-zinc-silver-gold-barite project in Southeast Alaska. Based in Fairbanks, Alaska, Siemoneit brings more than 30 years of experience in management, mining engineering, and operations to the Palmer project. This includes deep knowledge of underground mine design, engineering support, mine system reporting, and...
Blue Star Gold Corp. June 7 announced that it has mobilized equipment and crews for a summer exploration program across its Ulu, Hood River, and Roma gold projects in Nunavut. This multi-prong campaign has two primary objectives – infill and expansion drilling at existing resources, along with reviewing and developing targets across more than 45 kilometers (28 miles) of the High Lake Greenstone Belt covered by the three properties. According to a 2015 calculation, the Flood a...
Tahltan Central Government, Skeena Resources Ltd., and British Columbia have signed a landmark agreement that reshapes the mine permitting process in Tahltan Territory, the province, and potentially across all of Canada. Under this historic pact, Skeena's Eskay Creek gold-silver project will be the first proposed mine in BC to have permits authorized by an indigenous government, marking a significant step toward incorporating the principles of the United Nations Declaration...
Trilogy Metals Inc. June 8 provided details of the planned US$26.2 million exploration program slated for this year at the Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects in the Ambler Mining District of Northwest Alaska. Ambler Metals LLC, a joint venture company equally owned by Trilogy and South32 Ltd., has begun mobilizing equipment and crews for a summer field program that is expected to include at least 10,000 meters of diamond drilling, with additional meters contingent on drill...
Fireweed Zinc Ltd. has agreed to buy the Mactung tungsten project from the Northwest Territories government for C$15 million (US$11.8 million), an acquisition that further expands the company's growing portfolio of critical mineral assets. Mactung lies within the traditional territories of the Kaska Dena and First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun, as well as the Sahtu Dene and Métis land claims settlement area of western Northwest Territories. This critical metal property s...
Gold Terra Resource Corp. June 7 reported additional high-grade intercepts from its 19-hole winter drill program in the Mispickel area of its Yellowknife City Gold Project in Northwest Territories. While Gold Terra's 2022 drill program is primarily focused on building gold resources along the Campbell Shear on the Con Mine property optioned from Newmont south of Yellowknife, the company opted to carry out 6,011 meters of drilling in the Mispickel area about 20 kilometers...
Western Copper and Gold Corp. June 6 announced the start of its 2022 exploration and drill program at the Casino copper-gold-silver-molybdenum project in Canada's Yukon. Located about 300 kilometers (186 miles) northwest of Whitehorse, this world-class project that Western Copper and Gold has been advancing since acquiring the property in 2008 is found within the traditional territory of the Selkirk First Nation. Historically, two prefeasibility studies and a feasibility...
Granite Creek Copper Ltd. June 7 announced the start of its 2022 field exploration campaign at the high-grade Carmacks copper-gold-silver project in Canada's Yukon. According to the most recent calculation, Carmacks hosts 36.2 million metric tons of measured and indicated resource averaging 0.81% (651 million pounds) copper, 0.26 grams per metric ton (302,000 ounces) gold, 3.23 g/t (3.8 million oz) silver, and 0.011% (8.5 million lb) molybdenum. The first phase of the 2022...
