North of 60 Mining News - The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North

The Red Dog zinc and lead mine in remote northwest Alaska appears to be the victim of another misleading environmental report - this time, one causing some residents in neighboring villages alarm about the quality of berries and greens gathered as... — Updated 8/8/2004

Eastern European organized crime could take the sparkle off the Northwest Territories' diamond industry by smuggling diamonds from global war zones into the Canadian production life, warns Canada's spy agency. An intelligence report obtained by... — Updated 8/8/2004

The Alaska Miners Association annual convention and trade show is scheduled for Nov. 1-6 at the Sheraton Hotel in Anchorage, Alaska. The theme of this year's convention is, "Alaska-Where You Can Still Permit and Build a Mine." Short courses will... — Updated 8/8/2004

After years of contentious debate, lawsuits and sporadic negotiations, the two major players involved in the Healy Clean Coal Project, an experimental coal-fired power plant built with $300 million in state and federal funds and shuttered since... — Updated 8/8/2004 Full story

MAX Resource Corp. recently completed its first phase of core drilling on its new Interior Alaska property, the Gold Hill project about 10 miles off the Denali Highway. In early July, drilling crews and geological consultants from Alaska Earth... — Updated 8/8/2004

More than two dozen Alaskans visited the diamond mines of Canada's Northwest Territories in early July in a tour organized by the Alaska Miners Association. Following the tour, Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski, a member of the tour group, said "Alaska... — Updated 8/8/2004

Heavy rains in late July and early August have dampened the number of wildlands fires that burned through Interior and the eastern part of Alaska, adversely affecting placer miners and metals prospectors attempting to complete field work this... — Updated 8/8/2004

Teryl Resources Corp. continues to prospect on ground nearby the Fort Knox mine northeast of Fairbanks, Alaska, this time drilling on some placer claims with historical gold occurrences just downstream from the mine's fresh water dam. Reverse circu... — Updated 8/8/2004 Full story

Freegold Ventures has some recently acquired high-grade rock samples taken in July from a new portion of the Golden Summit project northeast of Fairbanks, Alaska, to show off during a planned tour and investor presentation in mid August. The Vancou... — Updated 8/8/2004

Long-time Alaska prospector Freegold Ventures has ventured across the border into the Yukon Territory, optioning a gold property west of Ross River with a previously drilled, 221,000 ounce gold and 835,000 ounce silver resource. In a July 14 press... — Updated 8/8/2004 Full story

Developers hoping to restart production at the underground, shuttered Nixon Fork gold-copper mine in central Alaska announced more high-grade drilling results from an underground drilling program this summer. The best intercept from new drilling re... — Updated 8/8/2004 Full story

Usibelli Coal Mine Inc., Alaska's only commercial coal producer, will send a shipment of its Healy coal south this fall to be test burned in a power plant operation in Chile, opening the door to a potential new international market. The test... — Updated 8/8/2004