The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
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CEM: TSX-V President and CEO: Garfield MacVeigh Chairman: Wayne Livingstone Vice President, Exploration: Darwin Green While Constantine Metal Resources Ltd. considers Palmer - a volcanogenic massive sulfide project near Haines in Southeast Alaska - its principal asset, the explorer's 2011 focus is on its gold assets in the Yukon Territory and Ontario. Quick to recognize the significance of Atac Resources Ltd.'s discovery of Carlin-style gold mineralization in the Yukon, Constantine formed a joint venture with Carlin Gold...
EPL: TSX-V President and CEO: Timothy J. Termuende, P.Geo. Chief Financial Officer: Glen Diduck, CA Vice-President Exploration: Charles C. Downie, P.Geo. Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. is a mineral exploration and development company holding 45 gold, silver, uranium, copper, molybdenum, lead, zinc, gypsum and rare earth elements properties in Western Canada, 14 of which are under option agreements with third parties. The junior reported one of its busiest exploration seasons in with a budget of just under C$10 million for 2011....
ECC: TSX/ETHOF: OTCQX/1ET: FRANKFURT President and CEO: Gary Freeman Chief Operating Officer: Peter Tallman, P.Geo. Chief Financial Officer: Peter Wong, C.A. Incorporated in British Columbia in 2007, Ethos Capital Corp. worked primarily on a couple of silver-zinc-lead projects in Mexico before coming to the Yukon. In November 2010, the company obtained an option to acquire a 100 percent interest in the Betty and Wolf properties located 120 kilometers (75 miles) south of Dawson City, Yukon. The two prospective gold properties...
FAU: TSX-V/FVCGF: OTCQX/FWR.F: Frankfurt Chairman: R. David Russell President and COO: Richard Goodwin Chief Geologist: Jeff Levell Fire River Gold Corp. fired up the mill at its Nixon Fork Mine July 4, placing the Vancouver B.C.-based junior on the short list of Alaska hardrock gold producers. Though the 150-metric-ton-per-day operation is much smaller than its peers, gold grades in the 1-ounce-per-metric-ton range helps make up for some of what the mine lacks in stature. When running at its full capacity, the reinstated...
TSX-V: FVL President and CEO: Kristina Walcott Chief Financial Officer: Gordon Steblin Vice President, Exploration and Development: Alvin Jackson Freegold Ventures Ltd. - a junior focused on gold exploration in Alaska - got a jump on the 2011 exploration season with the February start of a 6,166-meter phase-1 drill program at its Golden Summit project in the Fairbanks Mining District. The project is host to a number of gold occurrences that are similar in age and style to the multimillion-ounce intrusion found at Kinross...
TSX-V: FMM President: Michael Williams CEO and Vice President, Exploration: Rob McLeod Full Metal Minerals Ltd. - which spun its Fortymile zinc property into a new company - has narrowed its focus to copper and gold exploration in Alaska. Pyramid, a copper-gold-molybdenum porphyry project situated on the Alaska Peninsula of Southwest Alaska, was primary target of the Vancouver, B.C.-based junior's 2011 exploration. Full Metal and Chile-based project partner Antofagasta Minerals S.A., carried out a 2,575-meter drill program...
GPD: TSX-V Chairman and CEO: William M. Sheriff, B.Sc. President: John Legg, B.A., LLB Vice President Exploration (Canada): Michael G. Maslowski Golden Predator Royalty & Development Corp. was spun out with the precious metal assets of Golden Predator Mines Inc. in 2009. Launching a C$15 million exploration campaign in 2011, the company has followed up on aggressive 2010 exploration of large precious metal projects in Yukon Territory with an eye to becoming a gold producer. Golden Predator holds an extensive Yukon property...
III: TSX Chairman: Pierre Lebel President and COO: J. Brian Kynoch, P.Eng. Vice President, Exploration: Patrick M. McAndless, P.Geo. Imperial Metals Corp., organized in 2001, is a Vancouver-based miner focused on discovering, developing and operating base and precious metal assets in western North America. Key properties include the Mount Polley open-pit copper/gold mine located 56 kilometers northeast of Williams Lake, in central British Columbia, a 50 percent interest in the Huckleberry open-pit copper/molybdenum mine in...
JDN: TSX CEO: David Eaton President: Robert P. Felder, MSc, CPG VP Exploration & Development: Robert Perry, MSc, CPG Jayden Resources Inc. is a mining exploration company engaged in resource exploration and project development focused on Silver Coin, an advanced-staged project in the Stewart Camp of northern British Columbia. Since 2004, Jayden and joint venture partner Mountain Boy Minerals Ltd. have conducted extensive exploration for gold and silver at Silver Coin as well as environmental, metallurgical and resource studie...
KAM: TSX-V President and CEO: Rob Carpenter, Ph.D., P. Geo. Chairman: John Robins, P.Geo. Chief Geologist: Craig S. Finnigan, Ph.D. Kaminak Gold Corp., formed in 2005 in British Columbia, is a prospect generator focused on early-stage mining opportunities in northwestern Canada. Adhering to a philosophy of forming strategic partnerships such as joint ventures, Kaminak is working to advance about 16 discovery-stage projects elsewhere in North America, including several gold-silver projects in northwestern British Columbia and...
KGC: NYSE/K: TSX Chairman: John Oliver President and CEO: Tye Burt Director of North America Exploration: Al Kirkham From the humble beginnings of a greenfield copper-gold project in Southwest Alaska to adding years of gold production to its Fort Knox Mine in the heart of the Tintina Gold Belt, Kinross Gold Corp. is spending some US$17 million in search of valuable minerals in the Yukon Territory and the neighboring Far North state. About US$8 million of Kinross' 2011 exploration budget was earmarked for seeking new sources...
KIV: TSX-V Chairman: John Robins CEO: James R. (Jim) Paterson President: Jeff Ward Kivalliq Energy Corp. spent 2011 pursuing an aggressive C$17 million exploration program targeting up to 35,000 meters of drilling in two phases on its flagship Angilak Property in central Nunavut. The junior explorer also encountered significant challenges raising capital after a pall settled over uranium stocks when an earthquake and tsunami damaged a Japanese nuclear power plant March 11. Kivalliq was created in early 2008 when Kaminak Gold...
MRK: TSX-V Chairman: John McBride President and CEO: David Wiley Chief Geologist: Michael J. Byron, Ph.D. Merc International Minerals Inc. focuses on precious metal projects with historic resource estimates that could be enhanced through both modern-day exploration and dramatically higher gold-silver prices. In January the company entered into an option agreement to acquire a 100 percent interest in 15 mining leases and 3 mining claims located within the underexplored Indin Lake Greenstone Belt of Northwest Territories...
NGD: TSX/NGD: AMEX Executive Chairman: Randall Oliphant President and CEO: Robert Gallagher Vice President, Exploration: Mark Petersen New Gold is an intermediate gold producer with cash flow positive operating assets in the United States, Mexico and Australia and development projects in Canada and Chile. The company's portfolio includes the Blackwater Project in central British Columbia, which it acquired through the acquisition of Richfield Ventures Inc. in June. Blackwater has a resource estimate including 1.8 million...
NMC: TSX Chairman and CEO: Richard O'Brien Executive Vice President, Discovery and Development: Guy Lansdown Vice President, Generative Exploration: Grigore Simon Newmont Mining Corp. of Canada Ltd. is a subsidiary of Denver-based Newmont Mining Corp., one of the world's largest gold producers and the only gold mining company included in the S&P 500 Index and Fortune 500. Newmont acquired one of the largest undeveloped greenstones in North America in 2008 from Miramar Mining Ltd. and has worked since to advance exploration at...
NCG: TSXV President and CEO: John Williamson, P. Geol. Vice President and CFO: Sean Mager Vice President, Exploration: Peter Kleespies, M.Sc, P.Geol. Sixteen months after being spun out by CBR Gold Corp. (now Niblack Mineral Development Inc.) with assets in Canada and Australia and C$4.7 million in working capital, North Country Gold Corp. was making significant headway in advancing exploration of its Three Bluffs Gold Project in the Committee Bay Greenstone Belt in Nunavut. North Country owns mineral rights to at least 216...
NFR: TSX president & CEO: Tim J. Termuende, B.Sc., P.Geo. Chairman: John Anderson Exploration Manager: Allan Armitage, P.Geo. Northern Freegold Resources Ltd., founded in 2006, is a precious metals exploration and development company focused on the development of economic mineral resources at the district-scale Freegold Mountain gold and copper project in the Yukon Territory. The Freegold Mountain Project is located in the Whitehorse Mining District about 70 kilometers northwest of Carmacks. Freegold Mountain's district-scale...
NTR: TSX-V President and CEO: Greg Hayes, CA Director: Lori Walton, M.Sc., G.G., P.Geol. Vice President, Exploration: Dennis Ouellette, B.Sc. Northern Tiger Resources Inc., formed in April 2008 in Alberta as a spin-off of Firestone Ventures Inc., is an Edmonton, Alberta-based resource exploration company focused on the rapidly developing Dawson Range gold-silver-copper mining district in central Yukon Territory and underexplored regions southeastern and central Yukon. The company also has an exploration alliance with...
OCP: TSX-V President and Chairman: Paul Matysek Vice President of Exploration: Chris Taylor Ocean Park Ventures Corp. emerged on the mineral exploration scene in 2010 with a US$6.2 million exploration program at the 900-square-kilometer (350-square-mile) Chisna gold-copper project in eastern Alaska about 105 kilometers (65 miles) south of the town of Tok. While the junior returned to this property for a late-season drill campaign, the company's primary focus in 2011 was on Trapper, a northern British Columbia gold prospect...
OVR: ASX Managing Director: Hugh A. Bresser Chairman: Michael Haynes Chief Financial Officer: Beverley Nichols Overland Resources Ltd. is aggressively advancing the Yukon Base Metal Project and in particular the high-grade Andrew and Darcy zinc deposits towards production. The Yukon Base Metal Project contains a JORC Code (Australia) compliant resource of 11 million metric tons at 5.8 percent zinc and 1.0 percent lead with a 2 percent zinc cut-off applied. The company also seeks to consolidate its position in Canada by...
PGD: TSX Chairman & CEO: Eric Friedland President: Brooke Clements Vice President, Exploration: Peter Holmes Since 2007, Peregrine has discovered new Canadian diamond districts, Chidliak and Qilaq on southern Baffin Island, Nunavut, and Nanuq in the eastern Arctic region of Nunavut. The company also holds a 72 percent interest in the WO Property in Northwest Territories where it has established an independent, NI 43-101-qualified, indicated mineral resource of 18.2 million carats in the DO-27 kimberlite and owns several...
PVG: TSX President and CEO: Robert A. Quartermain, BSc (Hons), MSc, P.Geo, DSc , Chief Development Officer: Joseph J. Ovsenek, ,P. Eng., LLB Chief Exploration Officer: Kenneth C. McNaughton, , M.A. Sc., P.Eng. Pretivm Resources Inc. is a mineral exploration company that is advancing the Brucejack Project, located 65 kilometers (40 miles) north-northwest of Stewart, B.C. and the Snowfield Project, which borders Brucejack to the north, in northern British Columbia. Combined, these projects are among the largest undeveloped...
NIC: TSX President and CEO: David McPherson Chairman: R. David Russell Chief Consulting Geologist: Larry Hulbert Pure Nickel Inc., a junior with a portfolio of nickel and platinum group element projects in Canada and Alaska, is focused on exploring its Man nickel-copper-platinum group element project. Itochu Corp., which joined the project at the end of 2008, has agreed to invest as much as US$40 million to earn up to a 75 percent stake in the 290-square-mile-, or 750-square-kilometer, Interior Alaska project. Though...
RK: TSX-V Chief Executive Officer: Matthew A. Turner Chief Operating Officer: Ian J. Talbot Vice-President of Business Development: Marc G. Blythe, P.Eng. Rockhaven Resources Ltd. explores for metals and minerals with a particular emphasis on gold, silver and lead. It currently holds interests in 11 mineral exploration properties, all of which are located in Yukon Territory. In mid-May, Rockhaven began drilling 12,000 meters of diamond drilling with three rigs as part of its 2011 phase 1 exploration program at the Klaza...
RG: TSX-V/RMIOF:NASDAQ OTC/D4R:FE President and Director: Anastasios (Tom) Drivas Chief Financial Officer: Michael D'Amico, CA Vice President, Exploration and Geologist: Thomas Skimming, P. Eng. Romios Gold Resources Inc. is a Canadian exploration company actively engaged in precious and base metal exploration in British Columbia and Quebec with a primary focus on gold, copper, silver and molybdenum. Romios has acquired nine strategically located gold-copper properties between Nova Gold/Teck Cominco's and Barrick Gold's...
