Bristol Bay tribal leaders are tracking a dispute over where to dump waste from a gold mine in Southeast Alaska, fearing the outcome will set a precedent that could harm the rivers they fish. Seven Alaska Native village corporations have signed a... — Updated 6/25/2006 Full story

Environment Canada, a department of the federal government, has laid charges against Vancouver-based Miramar Mining and four related companies for alleged offences related to a fuel spill at a mining exploration camp at Windy Lake, Nunavut. The cha... — Updated 6/25/2006

Vancouver-based NovaGold Resources has upped the ante in its battle against a lawsuit from another Vancouver junior mining company, Pioneer Metals. NovaGold announced a takeover bid for Pioneer in mid-June, offering to purchase 100 percent of... — Updated 6/25/2006 Full story

After several years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Teck Cominco Metals Ltd., the world's largest zinc producer, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have reached an international agreement to investigate contamination in the Upper... — Updated 6/25/2006

Alaska's Resource Development Council members were treated to three different perspectives on the Pebble project at their annual meeting in Anchorage June 13. Several hundred people had a rare chance to hear in person from the chairman of... — Updated 6/25/2006 Full story

The last month has seen the 2006 summer season's first offering of new discoveries, new drilling results and new companies in Alaska. While a number of programs were delayed due to an unseasonably cold spring (bring on the global warming!), most pr... — Updated 6/25/2006

After staking 25,600 additional acres in the Nyac Gold District earlier this year, Tonogold Resources Inc. has embarked on Alaska exploration it hopes will yield a big payoff. The California-based junior mining company began drilling June 7 at Bona... — Updated 6/25/2006

Sherwood Copper Corp. dashed out of the starting gate this spring, racing not only to bring the Minto project in northern Yukon Territory to production as early as the second quarter of 2007, but also to boost anticipated copper production from... — Updated 6/25/2006

With gold prices near historic highs, Little Squaw Mining Co. is busy laying the groundwork for exploring its vast mining property for gold in the highly prospective Chandalar district about 200 miles north of Fairbanks. The Spokane-based junior... — Updated 6/25/2006

As a worker strike drags on at the huge Ekati Diamond Mine in Northwest Territories, local businesses are beginning to worry whether the dispute could have a detrimental effect on the territory's image as a good place for mining companies to do... — Updated 6/25/2006

Kennecott Greens Creek Mining Co. and Connors Drilling LLC have agreed to pay a $12,900 penalty to resolve two alleged federal Clean Water Act violations at the Greens Creek mine near Juneau, Alaska. Connors was conducting exploratory drilling... — Updated 6/25/2006

South Africa's AngloGold Ashanti has signed a letter of intent with Vancouver-based International Tower Hill Mines for the sale and option of all of AngloGold's Alaska mineral exploration properties and associated databases to the Canadian... — Updated 6/25/2006 Full story

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the State of Alaska released a public notice and draft project authorizations June 1, relating to the NovaGold Resources Rock Creek mine project located eight miles outside Nome. A 30-day public review and... — Updated 6/25/2006

Hanson Industries Inc., the Spokane, Wash.-based development company, has asked the State of Alaska for permission to explore areas of the historic Goodnews Bay Platinum Mine, which it has owned since 1980. The move comes in the wake of rapidly soa... — Updated 6/25/2006

Mining exploration spending in the Yukon Territories during 2005 was estimated at C$53 million, up 141 percent over the previous year, according the Yukon Minerals Advisory Board annual report issued June 1. The report said that was a significant... — Updated 6/25/2006 Full story

Construction is under way at Alaska's Nixon Fork gold mine near McGrath, and the underground mine should be in production later this summer. Ontario-based St. Andrew Goldfields recently received the state and federal permits necessary to... — Updated 6/25/2006 Full story

True North Gems said results of the 2005 exploration program at its sapphire property near the village of Kimmirut, along the south coast of Baffin Island, Nunavut, reinforces the company's belief that the seven-square-mile Beluga property could... — Updated 6/25/2006