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

Established in 1891, Hecla Mining Company has survived two World Wars, the Great Depression and numerous crests and troughs of a cyclical metals market that has sunk many of the silver miner's contemporaries over the past 125 years. Over this centu... — Updated 2/3/2018

Sumitomo Metal Mining Pogo LLC - a joint venture between Japanese firms Sumitomo Metal Mining Company (85 percent) and Sumitomo Corp. (15 percent) -budgeted roughly US$10 million to continue to expand upon the high-grade gold zones at and around... — Updated 2/3/2018

Coeur Mining Inc. continues to improve operation performance at Kensington while seeking out and developing higher grade deposits at the Southeast Alaska mine. The 12,400-acre Kensington property is divided into two blocks - Kensington and Jualin -... — Updated 2/3/2018

Pretium Resources Inc. is on pace to fire up operations at its bonanza grade Brucejack gold project in the fourth quarter of 2017. Upon reaching commercial production, the high-grade underground operation at Valley of the Kings is expected to... — Updated 2/3/2018

With the goal of finalizing a feasibility study for its Red Mountain project in northwestern British Columbia by early 2017, IDM Mining Ltd. completed roughly 5,300 meters of underground during an initial phase of 2016 drilling during aimed at... — Updated 2/3/2018

Colorado Resources Ltd. owns or has options on five properties that blanket more than 1,000 square kilometers of northwestern British Columbia. The junior’s 2016 exploration focused primarily on KSP, a property the company is optioning from S... — Updated 2/3/2018

With a goal of bringing more gold into the mine plan for its Eagle Gold project, Victoria Gold Corp. ratcheted up exploration at its Dublin Gulch property in central Yukon Territory. This work focused on Olive-Shamrock, a pair of zones about 2,500... — Updated 2/3/2018

Alexco Resource Corp. owns a number of mineral properties that blanket nearly the entire historic Keno Hill Silver District of central Yukon Territory, including the Bellekeno silver-zinc-lead mine. The company began commercial production at... — Updated 2/3/2018

Golden Predator Mining Corp. focused its 2016 exploration on 3 Aces and Brewery Creek, two of the company's five mineral properties in the Yukon Territory. At 3 Aces, a high-grade gold project located in southeastern Yukon, the company completed a... — Updated 2/3/2018

Rockhaven Resources Ltd. focused its 2016 exploration program on further defining and expanding the high-grade gold-silver resources at Klaza with the aim of bolstering the outcome of a preliminary economic assessment prepared for the project in so... — Updated 2/3/2018

Strategic Metals Ltd. has more than 100 mineral properties in the Yukon, making it the largest claim holder in the territory. These properties, along with projects it has in neighboring Northwest Territories and northern British Columbia, are... — Updated 2/3/2018

Wellgreen Platinum Ltd. is endeavoring to develop a mine at its namesake platinum group metals-copper-nickel project located near the Alaska Highway in southwestern Yukon Territory. Towards this goal, the company completed a C$14.1 million... — Updated 2/3/2018

Goldstrike Resources Ltd. continues to find new zones of visible gold across its 3,500-hectare (8,650 acres) Plateau South property in the Yukon Territory. The most recent such discovery was made at a zone called Bonanza, which is located about... — Updated 2/3/2018

Three years of work to optimize its Prairie Creek zinc-lead silver mine project in Northwest Territories is paying off for Canadian Zinc Corp. In March, this optimization work resulted in an updated and improved pre-feasibility study. A resource... — Updated 2/3/2018

Peregrine Diamonds Ltd. continues to focus on the exploration and potential development of its Chidliak diamond project located roughly 120 kilometers (75 miles) north of Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut. Since 2008, 71 kimberlites have been... — Updated 2/3/2018

Aston Bay Holdings Ltd. is focused on unlocking the copper and zinc potential of its Aston Bay property on northwest Somerset Island, Nunavut. Late in 2015, Aston Bay cut a deal with Commander Resources Ltd. that consolidated this 395,000-hectare... — Updated 2/3/2018

Sabina Gold & Silver Corp. is endeavoring to evolve from a successful mining explorer to a mid-tier gold producer by developing its Back River gold project in western Nunavut. The company completed two feasibility studies for the Back River... — Updated 2/3/2018

Nighthawk Gold Corp. continued to advance exploration at its 200,000-acre Indin Lake gold property with a 8,390-meter drill program looking to add higher grade near surface gold to the project's resource. Located roughly 200 kilometers (125 miles)... — Updated 2/3/2018

TerraX Minerals Inc. is carrying out year-round exploration aimed at unlocking a multimillion-ounce gold camp at its Yellowknife City Gold Project, which extends north and south of the capital of Northwest Territories. Blanketing the same geologica... — Updated 2/3/2018

Dominion Diamond Corp. sorts and sells diamonds it receives through its substantial interests in the world-class Ekati and Diavik mines in Northwest Territories about 300 kilometers (190 miles) north of Yellowknife. The company operates the Ekati D... — Updated 2/3/2018

North Arrow Minerals Inc. has seven diamond exploration projects in Canada - Qilalugaq, Mel and Luxx in Nunavut; Lac de Gras and Redemption in Northwest Territories; Pikoo in Saskatchewan; and Timiskaming in Ontario. In March, North Arrow launched... — Updated 2/3/2018

Nordgold - a European gold producer with operations in Russia, Kazakhstan, Burkina Faso and Guinea - is applying its arctic experience to the Pistol Bay gold project in Nunavut. Since at least 2014, Nordgold has become increasingly more involved... — Updated 2/3/2018

Raising C$14.9 million in May, a well-funded Auryn Resources Inc. anticipated 2016 exploration of its expansive Committee Bay gold project in Nunavut. Three Bluffs, the most advanced of the targets at Committee Bay, hosts 4.32 million metric tons... — Updated 2/3/2018