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ATAC Resources Ltd. Aug. 21 said it has identified significant gold and copper skarn mineralization at the Bobcat, a target about 4,500 meters southeast of the advanced-stage Tiger Gold deposit at Rau, the westernmost of three projects that make up the 1,700-square-kilometer (656 square miles) Rackla Gold property in the Yukon. The objective of the 2018 exploration program at Bobcat was to follow up on a rock sample collected in 2010 with 7.37 grams per metric ton gold and...
Sabina Gold & Silver Corp. Aug. 20 reported a significant new gold discovery, the Nuvuyak zone, about 1,000 meters west of the Goose main deposit at the company's Back River gold project in Nunavut. Hole 18GSE545 cut 39.5 meters of 11.58 grams per metric ton gold at Nuvuyak, a target hosted in a strongly quartz veined, altered and mineralized iron formation sequence, and has a number of strong similarities to the high-grade Umwelt "Vault" zone. Sabina said this successful...
Osisko Metals Inc. Aug. 23 reported results from 18 holes completed in the Central Zone of its Pine Point zinc project in Northwest Territories. Highlights from this batch of results include 6.75 meters of 14.67 percent zinc and 1.94 percent lead in hole M6263-18-PP-014; and 15 meters of 6.34 percent zinc and 1.27 percent lead in M6263-18-PP-013. "The Central Zone drilling continues to confirm the extensive, near surface mineralization that potentially could be mined by open p...
Riversgold Ltd. Aug. 22 announced the start of a 1,000-meter drill program testing the highest priority targets identified so far on its gold exploration properties in Southwest Alaska. Perth, Australia-based Riversgold owns three gold exploration properties – Luna-Quicksilver, Kisa and Gemuk – that blanket 27,122 acres of the Kuskokwim Mountains about 95 miles southwest of the 39-million-ounce Donlin Gold Mine project. Apart from Kisa, the company said none of the pro...
Seabridge Gold Inc. Aug. 21 announced that a 3,000-meter drill program is now underway at Quartz Rise, a high-grade gold target on the company's Iskut project in northwestern British Columbia. Situated about 30 kilometers (19 miles) west of Seabridge's enormous KSM gold-copper project, Iskut was acquired by the company in 2016. Integrating extensive historical data with results from Seabridge's 2016 work, the company believed a gold-bearing intermediate sulfidation epithermal...
Strategic Metals Ltd. Aug. 20 reported that it is granting Vanadium North Resources Inc. the option to purchase in the Van project in western Northwest Territories. Located about 10 road-kilometers (six miles) north of the past producing Cantung tungsten mine, the 38-square-kilometer (14.7 square miles) Van property hosts a major sediment-hosted vanadium prospect that has not seen focused exploration since 1985. Currently, vanadium is primarily used as an alloy metal. In this...
With initial results from the 2018 drilling at Bornite topping 5 percent copper, Trilogy Metals Inc. and South32 Ltd. have decided to extend this year's program at the Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects in the Ambler Mining District of Northwest Alaska. Trilogy has only received partial assay results from one hole drilled this year, but the results are impressive. This hole, RC18-0247, cut 16.4 meters grading 5.34 percent copper and 0.21 percent cobalt to the north of the...
Constantine Metal Resources Ltd. Aug. 21 reported results from four holes from this year's 10,000-meter drill program that continue to expand the South Wall and AG zones at the Palmer project in Southeast Alaska. South Wall-RW, the primary volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit outlined so far at Palmer, contains 8.1 million metric tons of inferred resources averaging 5.25 percent (940.4 million pounds) zinc, 1.41 percent (252.6 million lb) copper, 0.32 g/t (83,600 ounces) gold...
White Rock Minerals Ltd. Aug. 20 reported high-grade zinc grades were encountered in a second hole at the Hunter discovery on the company's Red Mountain project in Alaska. Hunter was discovered during a reconnaissance exploration program seeking new volcanogenic massive sulfide prospects across White Rock's 35,300-acre Red Mountain property. While mapping and sampling an area about 5,200 meters southeast of Dry Creek, one of two zinc-lead-copper-gold-silver deposits on the...
PolarX Ltd. Aug. 21 announced that assay results confirm that drilling has tapped copper and gold well below the currently outlined Zackly skarn deposit at the Australian explorer's Alaska Range project. Based on historical drilling and 13 holes completed last year, the Zackly deposit hosts 3.4 million metric tons of inferred resource grading 1.2 percent (90.4 million pounds) copper, 2 grams per metric ton (213,000 oz) gold and 14 g/t (1.5 million oz) silver. This resource...
