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BC First Nations forge mining alliances
British Columbia's Golden Triangle is poised for a mining boom that raises the bar when it comes to achieving the higher environmental, social, and guidance expectations for companies... — Updated 2/2/2023 Full story
North to the critical mineral future
The increasing number of electric vehicles charged with renewable energy, connected to 5G networks, and boasting the computing power of 200 laptops to autonomously traverse global... — Updated 1/20/2023 Full story
Benchmark Metals passes golden milestone
Racing past a milestone that marks roughly the midpoint of its planned path to production at Lawyers, Benchmark Metals Inc. completed a preliminary economic assessment in August that... — Updated 1/18/2023
Northern BC offers ESG mining benefits
Working with First Nations is key to unlocking the Golden Triangle's vast potential. A world-class copper-gold district that is also enriched with nickel, cobalt, platinum group metals,... — Updated 1/18/2023 Full story
Graphite One advances US supply strategy
Pushes ahead AK mine, WA plant to meet vast EV battery demand. As automakers look to secure the graphite required for lithium-ion batteries that will power the hundreds of millions of ele... — Updated 1/17/2023 Full story
Graphite Creek criticality on the rise
A shortage of the graphite required for the lithium-ion batteries powering the transition to electric mobility is elevating the criticality of Graphite One Inc.'s plans to develop a mine... — Updated 10/27/2022
More low-carbon nickel the plea for 2022
Tesla and other automakers clamor for nickel suppliers with low CO2 footprint Tesla CEO Elon Musk's 2020 appeal to "please mine more nickel" served as a rallying cry for mining companies... — Updated 9/16/2022
Minerals critical to the EV Revolution
Electric Vehicles require six times the minerals than their fossil fuel forebearers With even the most basic models boasting sophisticated driver-assist, navigation, infotainment, diagnos... — Updated 9/15/2022
Automakers move into lithium mining space
General Motors, Stellantis, and Tesla moving further up battery supply chain With the batteries powering the electric vehicle revolution demanding more lithium than miners can produce, th... — Updated 9/15/2022
PEA outlines robust Lawyers gold mine
Benchmark Metals Inc. Aug. 16 published results from a preliminary economic assessment that outlines an economically robust mine at its Lawyers project in Northern British Columbia that... — Updated 8/18/2022
Benchmark identifies AGB drill targets
Benchmark Metals Inc. July 27 announced plans to drill multiple new targets near the AGB deposit on the company's Lawyers gold-silver project in Northern British Columbia. One of three... — Updated 7/28/2022
Benchmark upgrades Lawyers gold resource
Benchmark Metals Inc. June 13 announced that its Lawyers gold-silver project in Northern British Columbia now hosts 2.74 million ounces of gold and 52.9 million oz of silver in the measur... — Updated 6/16/2022
Benchmark, Tahltan sign Lawyers deal
Benchmark Metals Inc. May 31 announced the signing of a new agreement with the Tahltan Central Government that establishes processes that allow the Tahltan First Nation to engage and... — Updated 6/9/2022
Benchmark taps familiar gold at Marmot
Benchmark Metals Inc. May 24 reported that drilling cut high-grade gold and silver within a wider zone of mineralization in the Marmot discovery area of the company's Lawyers property in... — Updated 5/26/2022
Dukes Ridge delivering gold at Lawyers
Benchmark Metals Inc. April 29 reported that strong results from this year's resource expansion drilling at Dukes Ridge indicates that this deposit still has gold and silver to... — Updated 5/12/2022
Expanding Cliff Creek-Duke Ridge deposit
Benchmark Metals Inc. Jan. 28 reported that the latest results from its 2021 drill program is continuing to expand Cliff Creek South, a newly discovered expansion area of the Cliff Creek... — Updated 2/10/2022
Assays are still pending going into 2022
Assays are pending, the unofficial slogan of the 2021 mineral exploration season across Alaska and Canada's North, is a phrase that continues to echo in a void left by the lack of drill r... — Updated 2/3/2022
Benchmark fast-tracks Lawyers exploration
Continuing a massive drill campaign launched in 2020, Benchmark Metals Inc. completed 83,570 meters of drilling at Lawyers during 2021. This includes resource upgrade and expansion... — Updated 1/26/2022 Full story
Northern BC explorers load up assay labs
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... — Updated 1/26/2022 Full story
Benchmark taps strong gold-silver at AGB
Benchmark Metals Inc. Jan. 12 reported strong gold and silver mineralization from infill and expansion drilling at the AGB deposit on the company's Lawyers project in Northern British... — Updated 1/13/2022
Cliff Creek Mid bodes well for Lawyers PEA
Benchmark Metals Inc. Nov. 8 reported that drilling has encountered additional near-surface, high-grade and bulk-tonnage gold-silver mineralization that could improve the economics of... — Updated 11/18/2021
EV revolution drives graphite demand
The global transition to electric vehicles plugged into renewable energy sources is powering enormous demand for graphite, the single largest ingredient in lithium-ion batteries.... — Updated 10/7/2021 Full story
Renewable revolution energizes copper
Considering the almost unfathomable quantities that will be needed to power the global shift to low-carbon energy and electric mobility, copper is the most critical of the minerals and... — Updated 9/17/2021 Full story
Soaring critical energy minerals demand
Global governments and industries are setting increasingly ambitious targets for the phasing out of fossil fuel-burning automobiles in favor of electric vehicles charged with green... — Updated 9/16/2021 Full story
Titans forge critical lithium alliances
The lightest of all the metals in the universe, lithium has emerged as the namesake for the batteries powering electric vehicles down global highways and storing renewable energy for... — Updated 9/16/2021 Full story