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Amarc Resources Ltd. Oct. 26 announced the completion of a 2023 geophysical and sampling program at Joy in preparation for an extensive Freeport-McMoRan-funded 2024 drill program on this large copper-gold project in the Toodoggone mining district of Northern British Columbia. Lying between Thesis Gold Inc.'s Lawyers gold-silver project to the northwest and Centerra Gold's Kemess copper-gold project to the southeast, the 482-square-kilometer (186 square miles) Joy property cove...
Amarc Resources Ltd. Dec. 11 said its inaugural exploration program at Joy has confirmed several high-potential porphyry gold-copper drill targets on this 464-square-kilometer property in north-central British Columbia. This year's C$2.5 million exploration program at Joy was funded by Hudbay Minerals Inc., which has partnered with Amarc to explore and develop the Joy Project. Hudbay, which produces precious and base metals from operations in Canada and Peru, also paid C$1.15...
Amarc Resources Ltd. Nov. 21 announced plans to acquire full ownership of two porphyry projects in north-central and central British Columbia. Joy, the northernmost project, is a porphyry copper-gold target about 15 kilometers (nine miles) north of Kemess district, where Northgate Minerals produced 3 million ounces of gold and 784 million pounds of copper over a 12-year period to 2010 and AuRico Metals recently announced a 628-meter intercept grading 0.53 grams per metric ton...
For the dozens of companies that rushed to stake claims in the Nechako Plateau of central British Columbia three years ago, the area now known as the Blackwater Gold District is shaping up to be a better-than-average bet. But a series of bold acquisitions by New Gold Inc. in 2011 has placed the mid-tier gold producer solidly in the driver's seat in one of Canada's largest modern gold exploration plays. Located about 160 kilometers (99 miles) south-west of Prince George in central British Columbia, the Blackwater Project area...
Mining exploration activity in northern British Columbia approached record levels in 2010 with explorers setting a new drilling record and spending about C$168 million in pursuit of a wide range of minerals, including gold, copper, silver, molybdenum, and rare earth elements, according to a top provincial geologist. Paul Wojdak, regional geologist for the Northwest Region of British Columbia's Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, said the major good news mining story in 2010 for central and northern British...
