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Blackwolf Copper and Gold Ltd. June 8 reported that permitting for its Niblack project has been granted, allowing surface exploration work to begin at this Southeast Alaska polymetallic property.... — Updated 2/16/2023

Blackwolf Copper and Gold Ltd. May 11 reported an update for the 2022 exploration on its Southeast Alaska projects, including a multi-phased exploration campaign at Niblack, a maiden drill program a... — Updated 2/16/2023

Optimum Ventures Ltd. Dec. 14 announced that it has acquired the Salmon gold property in the Hyder Mining District of Southeast Alaska. A TSX Venture Exchange-listed junior, Optimum has been... — Updated 12/22/2022

C$200M financing package provides cash needed to restart operations at Northern BC gold-silver mine. Having pulled together a C$200 million (US$147 million) financing package, Ascot Resources Ltd.... — Updated 12/22/2022

Ascot Resources Ltd. Dec. 8 announced that the latest batch of assay results from drilling at the Big Missouri deposit includes the highest-grade gold intercept in five years at the company's... — Updated 12/8/2022

Ascot Resources Ltd. Oct. 27 reported that drills have tapped additional high-grade gold within and near areas for early mining at the Big Missouri deposit on the company's Premier Mine project... — Updated 10/27/2022

Blackwolf Copper and Gold Ltd. Sept. 28 reported that it has received the permits necessary to begin exploration drilling at Cantoo and is gearing up to carry out drilling at this gold-silver-copper... — Updated 9/29/2022

Ascot Resources Ltd. Sept. 13 reported high-grade gold intercepts in the first batch of assay results from the 2022 drilling at Big Missouri, the first deposit the company plans to mine when it... — Updated 9/15/2022

Ascot Resources Ltd. Aug. 24 reported that drilling has cut additional strong gold mineralization at Sebakwe, a discovery zone about 600 meters southwest of the mill on the company's Premier mine... — Updated 8/25/2022

Ascot Resources Ltd. July 14 reported that this year's drilling has cut bonanza grade gold at the emerging Sebakwe zone on the Premier mine project in the Golden Triangle region of British Columbia.... — Updated 7/21/2022

Strikepoint Gold Inc. July 5 announced that exploration work is now underway on its Willoughby gold-silver and Porter silver properties near Stewart, British Columbia in Canada's prolific Golden... — Updated 7/7/2022

Blackwolf Copper and Gold Ltd. July 5 announced the beginning of surface exploration work on its recently staked Cantoo and Mineral Hill properties within the Alaskan region of the Golden Triangle... — Updated 7/7/2022

Just as Ascot Resources Ltd. was entering the home stretch of reestablishing a mine at Premier, the company has been forced to curtail some of the summer construction work needed to put the historic... — Updated 6/23/2022

Ascot Resources Ltd. May 9 announced an earlier than expected start to the 2022 exploration drill program at its Premier gold-silver mine project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. "Given the... — Updated 5/12/2022

StrikePoint Gold Inc. April 12 announced the latest results from surface channel sampling as well as reconnaissance grab samples collected during the 2021 exploration at its Willoughby gold-silver p... — Updated 4/14/2022

Whether exploring and mapping a historical underground mine for the first time since it was shuttered during World War II or generating more detailed maps of a modern operation, drones that... — Updated 2/24/2022

Ascot Resources Ltd. Feb. 22 reported high-grade gold intercepts from its 2021 drilling at Big Missouri, the first deposit to be mined with the start of modern operations at the company's Premier... — Updated 2/24/2022

Despite project delays and cost overruns, Ascot Resources Ltd. is set to make the final push toward reestablishing a mine at its Premier gold project in British Columbia's famed Golden Triangle.... — Updated 2/10/2022

Ascot Resources Ltd. Jan. 13 reported additional high-grade gold intercepts from 2021 drilling at the Day Zone, which lies adjacent to the Big Missouri deposit on the company's Premier gold mine... — Updated 1/27/2022

As it closes in on reestablishing the Premier Mine, Ascot Resources Ltd. is expanding and upgrading resources that would feed ore into the updated mill at this gold-silver operation on the... — Updated 1/26/2022

Going into 2021, StrikePoint Gold Inc. resumed work at its high-grade gold and silver projects, Willoughby and Porter, in British Columbia's Golden Triangle, resulting in new silver vein... — Updated 1/26/2022

Despite a season challenged by heavy rains and an early snowstorm, the massive amount of exploration carried out in Northern British Columbia during 2021 piled loads of drill core and surface... — Updated 1/26/2022

Considered a major milestone along the path to new mining jobs and economic opportunities for the Nisga'a Nation and others that live in and around the town of Stewart, British Columbia, Ascot... — Updated 12/29/2021

Ascot Resources Ltd. Dec. 15 announced that drilling has encountered high-grade gold in the Sebakwe zone, which may be an unmined structure immediately north of the Northern Light and Premier zones... — Updated 12/16/2021

Ascot Resources Ltd. Nov. 17 reported that drilling has expanded gold mineralization at Day Zone, a discovery target near the Big Missouri deposit on the company's Premier gold mine project at the... — Updated 11/18/2021