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Stratabound Minerals Corp. August 11 announced the end of its 2022 summer field program at the company's Golden Culvert and recently added Win gold projects in southeast Yukon. After optioning Golden Culvert in 2017, Stratabound has spent several years establishing its foothold in the Yukon by advancing this underexplored property that neighbors Seabridge Gold Inc.'s high-grade 3 Aces gold project. Found within the Hyland Gold Belt, a geologic extension of the Tombstone Gold...
Aben Resources Ltd. April 19 announced an update for its Justin gold project in southeastern Yukon, including the ongoing search for a partner to move the nearly decade-old project forward. The 7,400-hectare (18,286 acres) Justin gold project, which lies immediately southeast of Seabridge Gold's high-grade 3 Aces gold project and approximately 35 kilometers (22 miles) southeast of the Cantung Mine, is equipped with an all-season road running through its claims. Exploration...
One of few mineral explorers active in Yukon Territory during the mining industry's 2020 beleaguered field season recently reported encouraging results that give credence to the idea that a new gold camp may be on the verge of emerging in Canada's North. Stratabound Minerals Corp. completed a late-season exploration program last year on its 84-square-kilometer (32.4 square miles) Golden Culvert property, along a 24 kilometer- (15 miles) long mineralized trend in Southeastern...
Aben Resources Ltd. Sept. 18 reports that drilling continues to expand the North Boundary gold-silver-copper zone on the Forrest Kerr project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. The latest batch of assay results are from five holes drilled outboard of the main mineralized core at North Boundary. One hole drilled by Aben last year, FK18-10, cut 10 meters of 38.7 grams per metric ton (1.12 ounces per metric ton) gold from a depth of 114 meters, including one meter of 331 g/t...
Aben Resources Ltd. Aug. 20 provided updates on an expanded drill program at its Forrest Kerr gold project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle and Justin gold project in southeastern Yukon. At Forrest Kerr, Aben is encouraged by initial results from a more than 5,000-meter initial phase of drilling and has budgeted additional funds to extend the drilling into fall. "We are off to a great start for the 2019 drill season," said Aben Resources President and CEO Jim Pettit. "We...
Aben Resources Ltd. July 9 announced that it has completed the 2019 drill program at its Justin gold project in southeastern Yukon and drills are now turning on its Forrest Kerr gold project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Aben is starting off with a 5,000-meter drill program this year at Forrest Kerr. A second 5,000-meter phase that follows up on interesting targets turned up in the initial phase is expected to be added. "The company looks forward to continued success...
Aben Resources Ltd. May 23 announced that it will have drills turning at the Justin gold project in southeastern Yukon and Forrest Kerr gold project in the Golden Triangle region of British Columbia. This year, the company plans to get an earlier start on exploration with a roughly 2,000-meter drill program at Justin beginning in early June. This program will include prospecting, 600 meters of rotary air blast drilling and 1,350 meters of core drilling. The RAB drilling at...
Aben Resources Ltd. Sept. 25 reported additional high-grade gold intercepts from the 2018 drilling in the North Boundary zone on the company's Forrest Kerr property in the Golden Triangle region of British Columbia. Aben first drilled North Boundary in 2017. The discovery hole, FK17-04, cut 10 meters of 6.7 grams per metric ton gold, 6.4 g/t silver and 0.9 percent copper. FK17-05, cut 122 meters averaging 1.2 g/t gold, 1.8 g/t silver and 0.21 percent copper, including a...
Aben Resources Ltd. Aug. 9 said the first 2018 hole drilled at its Forrest Kerr property in British Columbia's Golden Triangle cut multiple zones of high-grade gold Collared in the North Boundary zone, where drilling late in the 2017 season discovered strong precious and base metal mineralization, hole FK18-10, cut four high-grade zones: 13 meters of 3.9 grams per metric ton gold, 4 g/t silver and 0.62 percent copper from 61 meters; 4 meters of 22 g/t gold, 22.4 g/t silver...
Aben Resources Ltd. July 5 announced that an initial 5,000-meter drill program is well underway at the company's 23,000-hectare Forrest Kerr gold project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. The initial focus of this planned 18-hole drill program is to expand the high-grade precious metal mineralization discovered in 2017 at the Boundary North zone, located near the center of the roughly 50-kilometer (30 miles) long Forrest Kerr property. Three holes, collared from the same...
Aben Resources Ltd. May 23 said it plans to undertake a 5,000-meter drill program this year at its Forrest Kerr gold property located in northwestern British Columbia`s Golden Triangle region. Slated to start mid-June, this drilling will initially focus on the expansion of high-grade precious metal mineralization discovered at the Boundary North zone last summer. One such hole, FK17-04, cut 10 meters of 6.7 grams per metric ton gold, 6.4 g/t silver and 0.9 percent copper. The...
Aben Resources Ltd. April 23 announced that it has raised C$2.32 million, funds the company will use for this year's exploration and drill program at its Forrest Kerr gold project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle region and for general working capital purposes. "With the closing of these financings, the company is well positioned, with over C$3.5 million in the treasury, to fund the upcoming drill programs at its flagship Forrest Kerr gold project," said Aben President...
Though mineral exploration in Yukon Territory this year lagged the pace seen in 2018, mine development projects advanced at a steady clip in 2019, while several past-producing mines moved toward resuming output. Yukon ranked fourth in Canada for projected spending on mineral exploration and deposit evaluation for 2018, according to statistics distributed by Natural Resources Canada. Spending for mineral exploration and deposit evaluations totaled C$249.4 million, made up of C$...
Whether it be precious metals such as gold and silver, base metals like copper and zinc, or battery metals like nickel and cobalt, northern British Columbia is rich in the type of metal deposits that junior mining companies are hoping to discover and majors are wanting to mine. Couple this mineral endowment with good infrastructure – especially stacked up against the other jurisdictions in the North of 60 Mining News coverage area – and northern B.C. continues to draw str...
Aben Resources Ltd. had drills turning on two gold-rich properties during 2019 – Justin in southeastern Yukon and Forrest Kerr in the Golden Triangle region of British Columbia. While Justin is the most northerly of the two projects, the terrain there provides for earlier access, making this property adjacent to Golden Predator Mining Corp.'s 3 Aces project the first target for exploration this year. The 2019 program at Justin included drilling, prospecting, geologic m...
In 1918, the Premier gold mine opened a few miles north of Stewart, a mining town that is the southern gateway to British Columbia's famed Golden Triangle. Over the ensuing 34 years, this underground operation churned out some 2 million ounces of gold and 45 million oz of silver, making it the largest gold producer in North America during that era. A century later, Premier continues to be in play and modern exploration is unveiling the vast mineral potential that northern...
Aben Resources Ltd. is discovering exciting zones of gold-silver-copper mineralization at Forrest Kerr, a large land package that covers a 49-kilometer- (30 miles) long stretch of northern British Columbia's Golden Triangle. A drill program that got underway in June initially focus on the expansion of high-grade precious metal mineralization discovered at the Boundary North zone last summer. One such hole, FK17-04, cut 10 meters of 6.7 grams per metric ton gold, 6.4 g/t...
When judging the health of global mineral exploration, British Columbia seems to be the perfect model. In 2015, roughly C$272 million was invested in discovering and delineating mineral deposits in B.C., down some C$66 million from 2014. This 19.5 percent drop is in lockstep with the decline in global mineral exploration budgets for the same period, according SNL Metals & Mining's World Exploration Trends report. Likewise, B.C. exploration decreased about 60 percent from the...
Aben Resources Ltd. July 26 said a 2,100-meter drill program is slated to begin at its Forrest Kerr gold property in northwestern British Columbia during the first week of August. This drilling will follow up on exploration carried out earlier this season at Forrest Kerr, where crews completed soil geochemical sampling, ground-truthed historic data and evaluated mineralization potential on a property-wide basis. Focus was placed on areas containing historic high-grade precious- and base-metal occurrences. Drilling will...
Aben Resources Ltd. Nov. 6 reported that drilling has encountered broad zones of copper-gold-silver mineralization in the Boundary zone at the company's Forrest Kerr project in the Golden Triangle region of northwestern British Columbia. FK17-05, drilled in the recently identified Boundary North zone cut 122 meters averaging 1.2 grams per metric ton gold, 1.8 g/t copper and 0.21 copper, including a 6-meter high-grade core averaging 21.5 g/t gold, 28.5 g/t silver and 3.1percent copper. FK17-06, also drilled at Boundary north...
Aben Resources Ltd. Oct. 4 said drilling has expanded the Boundary zone at its Forrest Kerr gold project in the Golden Triangle region of northwestern British Columbia. Hole FK17-04, the first hole drilled at Boundary this year, cut 10 meters of 6.7 grams per metric ton gold, 6.4 g/t silver and 0.9 percent copper. Aben said this was a subsection of larger intercept that returned 0.26 over 387 meters. "The discovery of high-grade, near-surface gold mineralization in hole FK17-04, and the fact that it is a 280-meter step out...
Aben Resources Ltd. Oct. 5 reported the completion of a property-wide reconnaissance and surface sampling program on its 23,000-hectare (56,800 acres) Forrest Kerr gold project in the Golden Triangle region of northwestern British Columbia. The program included the collection of 360 soil, 11 silt, and 35 rock samples to confirm historic high-grade zones and extend existing multi-element soil anomalies. The company believes the sampling will better define known mineralized...
Aben Resources Ltd. Sept. 7 reported the start of exploration at its 23,000-hectare (53,830 acres) Forrest Kerr property located in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. The 2016 fieldwork is intended to provide reconnaissance-scale geological exploration across the project, which spans roughly 40 kilometers (25 miles). The newly-constructed access road to Galore Creek, a large copper-gold project being advanced by Novagold Resources and Teck Resources, cuts through the north...
Aben Resources Ltd. July 6 said it has consolidated a 23,000-hectare (56,833 acres) land package in the Golden Triangle region of Northwest British Columbia by staking and acquiring land claims in this prolific region. Individual agreements were executed between Aben and Equity Exploration Consultants, Kiska Metals and CVE, a private third-party, whereby Aben will acquire a 100 percent interest (less underlying net smelter return royalties) by issuing seven million shares and...
ABN: TSX-V Chairman: Ronald Netolitzky, M.Sc. Geology President: James G. Pettit Qualified person Justin Gold Project: Carl Schultze, B.Sc., P Geo. Project managers: Mike McCuaig, B.Sc. (Justin); Aaron Higgs, B.Sc. (Selwyn Recce) Aben Resources Ltd. focused in 2012 on its 7,412-hectare (18,314 acres) Justin gold project in southeast Yukon Territory. In August, Aben reported that the first of six holes totaling 1,298 meters drilled within the POW zone at Justin intercepted a robust zone of gold mineralization and has...
