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

By 1898, the Klondike Gold Rush was beginning to wane and many of the roughly 100,000 people that trekked to the Yukon were seeking new regions to make their golden fortunes - moving in... — Updated 9/26/2019 Full story

Brixton Metals Corp. July 15 reported long sections of copper-gold-silver mineralization in drill hole THN19-150, which targeted deep porphyry mineralization in the Oban zone on the... — Updated 7/26/2019

Brixton Metals Corp. July 8 announced the start of a drill program testing new near-surface, high-grade gold targets identified during a soil and rock sampling program carried out... — Updated 7/19/2019

Brixton Metals Corp. April 18 announced the start of its first phase of 2019 exploration at the Atlin Goldfields project in northern British Columbia. Over the past three years, Brixton... — Updated 4/26/2019

Brixton Metals Corp. Dec. 19 announced that it has raised C$2.78 million for further exploration of Atlin Goldfields project in the Golden Triangle region of northwest British Columbia.... — Updated 12/28/2018 Full story

Brixton Metals Corp. Aug. 7 said it has entered into a series of asset purchase and sale agreements to acquire a 100 percent interest in 29,608 hectares (73,162 acres) of mineral rights... — Updated 8/17/2018

Brixton Metals Corp. announced that it has raised C$3.3 million through a private placement of units brokered by Red Cloud Klondike Strike Inc. and M Partners Inc. The money raised is pla... — Updated 9/25/2016

Brixton Metals Corp. Aug. 5 posted results from an initial phase of 2016 exploration at its Thorn gold-silver project in Northwest British Columbia. A total of 891 soils and 159 rock samp... — Updated 8/14/2016

Brixton Metals Corp. April 7 reported the closing of the first tranche of a non-brokered private placement financing consisting of 6,233,000 units for C10 cents each and 4 million... — Updated 4/17/2016

Mineral and coal exploration in British Columbia, which peaked at C$680 million in 2012, retreated to roughly C$476 million in 2013. This drop is on par with the roughly 30 percent... — Updated 11/2/2014

The 6.4 million ounces of low-cost silver recovered from the Greens Creek Mine in Southeast Alaska during 2012 is funding growth aspirations at Hecla Mining Co., including a foray into... — Updated 11/3/2013

The 6.4 million ounces of low-cost silver recovered from the Greens Creek Mine in Southeast Alaska during 2012 is funding growth aspirations at Hecla Mining Co., including a foray into... — Updated 3/31/2013 Full story

VANCOUVER, B.C. - British Columbia, Alaska and Yukon Territory - the headliners of the Association for Mining Exploration British Columbia's 2013 Mineral Exploration Roundup - tallied... — Updated 2/24/2013 Full story

After an extremely busy, productive year, the final weeks of 2011 and the first few weeks of the New Year were remarkably quiet for Alaska's mining industry. But not to worry, it appears... — Updated 1/22/2012 Full story

Millrock Resources Inc. is artfully implementing the science of making grassroots gold and copper discoveries, proving the promise of these new finds and vending the prospects to other... — Updated 11/6/2011

The mineral project generator model is paying dividends for Millrock Resources Inc. The junior anticipates exploration on its Alaska gold properties to top US$10 million in 2011, with... — Updated 6/26/2011

Brixton Metals Corp., the newest explorer and among the largest landowners in the Kahiltna Terrane region of Southwest Alaska, is on a mission to acquire large-scale precious metals prope... — Updated 12/19/2010

When Rimfire Minerals Corp. and Geoinformatics Exploration Inc. joined forces to form Kiska Metals Corp. in the fall of 2009, the primary objective of the amalgamated junior was to... — Updated 10/31/2010 Full story

Since its inception in 2007, Millrock Resources Inc.'s modus operandi is to seek out early-stage mineral prospects in Alaska and Arizona, complete initial exploration and then joint... — Updated 10/31/2010