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Articles from the July 16, 2017 edition


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  • Kensington gold output flat

    Updated Mar 14, 2018

    Coeur Mining Inc. July 6 reported steady gold production at its Kensington Mine in Southeast Alaska. During the second quarter, Kensington produce 26,424 ounces of gold, nearly identical to first quarter production and 18 percent less than the second quarter of 2016. This dip in production compared to last year is primarily due to anticipated lower ore grades due to mine sequencing. The average grade of material processed at Kensington during the second quarter was 0.17 ounces per ton gold. This compares to 0.17 oz/t gold in...

  • Pebble unencumbered

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Jan 14, 2018

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has set in motion plans to completely do away with the pre-permitting restrictions it attempted to impose against Pebble in 2014. If fully implemented, these Obama-era Clean Water Act restrictions would have seriously reduced the size of any mine that could have developed at the world-class Pebble copper-gold-molybdenum deposit in the Bristol Bay region of Southwest Alaska. A federal judge ordered a stay on the implementation of EPA's... Full story

  • Gold-rich lithocap targeted at Iskut

    Updated Jan 14, 2018

    Seabridge Gold Inc. July 10 said it is has nearly completed a surface sampling and geophysics to establish locations for an 8,500-meter drill program about to get underway at its Iskut gold project in northwestern British Columbia and drilling. The focus of this work is on the Quartz Rise target identified last year. Over the past several months, Seabridge has compiled considerable historical data and integrated it into the results from the company's 2016 program....

  • Colorado pushes ahead at northern BC projects

    Updated Jan 14, 2018

    Colorado Resources Ltd. July 10 reported the start of 7,500-meter initial phase of drilling targeting the Inel zone at its KSP property in the Golden Triangle region of northwestern British Columbia. This drilling will focus on areas to the west and north of the area drilled at the Inel target last year. One hole drilled at Inel last year cut 52 meters averaging 4.93 grams per metric ton gold and 2.7 percent zinc; including a two-meter intercept with 89.1 g/t gold and 2.3 percent zinc. Colorado said that many of the 2016... Full story

  • Core drilling to start at Boulevard gold

    Updated Jan 14, 2018

    Independence Gold Corp. July 6 announced the start of its 2017 Yukon exploration program. The primary focus of this program is to define additional gold mineralization within the Sunrise-Sunset zone at the company's Boulevard project, adjacent to Goldcorp's Coffee gold mine project. The Company also plans to complete regional exploration activities to discover new targets on Boulevard and its other White Gold District properties. "The Yukon is a great jurisdiction to invest and explore in and we are excited to continue our wo...

  • Spades zones at 3 Aces growing to open-pit size

    Updated Jan 14, 2018

    Golden Predator Mining Corp. July 10 said drilling continues to expand the Ace and Jack of Spades zones at its 3 Aces gold project in southeastern Yukon. The latest assay results are from 23 reverse circulation holes drilled through May 15. Highlights from this drilling include 6.86 meters of 20.15 grams per metric ton gold from a depth of 6.86 meters in hole 3A17-100; 1.52 meters of 54.25 g/t gold from a depth of 2.29 meters in 3A17-106; 6.1 meters of 22.3 g/t gold from ad depth of 12.95 meters in 3A17-127; and 1.52 m of 72....

  • Klondike drills gold along Bonanza fault

    Updated Jan 14, 2018

    Klondike Gold Corp. July 11 reported nice gold intercepts from the first two holes of eighteen drilled during the initial phase of drilling at the Lone Star target on the company's Klondike district property near Dawson City, Yukon. This phase-1 program tested a 1,950 meter strike length along or adjacent to the newly identified Bonanza fault, which is interpreted to be a significant structue for orogenic gold mineralization with an inferred 7,500 meter potential strike length.LS17-81, the first hole of this year's program,...

  • Newmont, Goldstrike begin Plateau drilling -July 16, 2017

    Shane Lasley|Updated Jan 14, 2018

    Goldstrike Resources Ltd. July 5 announced that a 10,000 line-kilometer airborne magnetic survey and a district-scale geochemical program have been completed at Plateau and drilling is now underway at the gold property. This marks the first exploration program since Newmont Mining Corp. joined Goldstrike in exploring the Yukon property. This year's geophysical and geochemical programs utilized Newmont's exploration team, equipment and proprietary techniques. With this program...

  • Millrock, Kinross eye Tetlin-style skarns at Liberty Bell

    Updated Jan 14, 2018

    Millrock Resources Inc. July 6 announced the start of a sampling and prospecting program at its Liberty Bell gold project in the Bonnifield Mining District of Interior Alaska. In March, Kinross Gold Corp. entered into an option agreement with Millrock on Liberty Bell. To earn a 70 percent joint venture interest in the property, Kinross must fund US$5 million of exploration and maintenance costs over five years; pay up to US$145,000 in fees for any project management carried out by Millirock; and pay advanced royalty payments...