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

It is hard to quantify which is more impressive, the sheer size of the estate owned by Doyon Ltd. or the rich and underexplored mineral potential on the lands owned by the Alaska Native... — Updated 10/11/2021

Building upon a strong relationship it has made with Doyon Ltd., Tectonic Metals Inc. has entered into an agreement to lease the Flat gold project owned by the Alaska Native Claims... — Updated 10/7/2021

Tectonic Metals Inc. Sept. 7 reported assays as high as 50.5 grams per metric ton gold from rock samples collected from the Jorts prospect at Tibbs South, a property immediately south of... — Updated 9/23/2021

Tectonic Metals Inc. Aug. 18 reported that a deep-penetrating Titan-160 ground-based geophysical survey targeting has identified what appears to be low- and high-angle structures... — Updated 9/8/2021

Tectonic Metals Inc. July 20 announced it is entering the second phase of its 2021 exploration program at Tibbs in Alaska's Goodpaster Mining District with a deep-penetrating Titan-160... — Updated 7/29/2021

After raising C$3.5 million in May, Tectonic Metals Inc. is gearing up for the start of its 2021 exploration in Alaska, which will be anchored by oriented core drill programs at its... — Updated 7/1/2021

Tectonic Metals Inc. June 28 announced the start of 2021 drilling at Tibbs, a gold exploration project about 22 miles (35 kilometers) southeast of Northern Star Resources Ltd.'s... — Updated 7/1/2021

Alaska contains minerals essential to the national defense, renewable energy and electronics industries. Finding those minerals, however, can be difficult in such a vast and geologically... — Updated 6/24/2021

From a world-class graphite deposit in the Northwest to rare earths on the Southeast Panhandle, Alaska has the potential to offer a sustainable and secure supply to meet the coming... — Updated 4/29/2021

Strong metal prices and an infusion of cash from notable resource investors helped to salvage much of a 2020 mineral exploration season in Alaska that became lethargic with disruptions,... — Updated 2/4/2021

A relatively young mineral exploration company led by a veteran team noted for their success in advancing Coffee Gold in the Yukon from a grassroots discovery to a roughly... — Updated 1/17/2021

Tectonic Metals Inc. Dec. 21 reported that its initial prospecting of Carrie Creek, a newly acquired project immediately adjacent to Tibbs, has turned up intrusion-hosted gold... — Updated 12/30/2020

Tectonic Metals Inc. Nov. 12 announced that its 26-hole rotary air blast drill program at Seventymile has confirmed the company's geological model for this eastern Alaska gold... — Updated 11/19/2020

Tectonic Metals Inc. Sept. 14 reported strong gold intercepts from drilling at Lower Trench, a discovery zone about 1,500 meters northwest of the Michigan zone on the Tibbs project in... — Updated 11/12/2020

Tectonic Metals Inc. Oct. 26 reported that soils sampling has identified numerous drill-ready gold exploration targets that are strikingly similar to the deposits being mine at Northern... — Updated 11/5/2020

Kinross Gold Corp.'s new long-term strategy for its Fort Knox Mine is a paradigm shift for mineral exploration companies with gold projects on or near the road system within a... — Updated 10/29/2020

Doyon Ltd. is seeing a resurgence of mineral exploration on its lands across Interior Alaska, especially on gold properties held by the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act regional... — Updated 9/26/2020

Tectonic Metals Inc. Sept. 14 reported additional high-grade gold intercepts from drilling at the Michigan zone on the company's Tibbs project in Alaska's Goodpaster Mining District.... — Updated 9/26/2020

Tectonic Metals Inc. has cut a deal with Doyon Ltd. that significantly expands its gold exploration properties in Alaska's Goodpaster Mining District and strengthens its mutually benefici... — Updated 9/26/2020

Tectonic Metals Inc. June 25 announced that it has added a new gold property in the Goodpaster Mining District and acquired a dataset that will assist the company's exploration across... — Updated 9/26/2020

Tectonic Metals Inc. June 2 announced plans to raise an additional C$3 million to fund 2020 drill programs on two of its Alaska properties – Tibbs and Seventymile. In April, Doyon Ltd.... — Updated 9/26/2020

In an unprecedented deal that offers a bit of good news for gold exploration in Alaska, Doyon Ltd. has invested US$1.5 million (C$2.1 million) to acquire a 16.1% strategic ownership of Te... — Updated 9/26/2020

In November 1996, a little over 23 years ago, I began writing quarterly mining news summaries for the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG). Shortly after that, I began writing monthly... — Updated 9/26/2020

Tectonic Metals Inc. Dec. 19 reported that its late season rotary air blast (RAB) drill program at the Northway project in eastern Alaska tapped porphyry-style mineralization in both... — Updated 9/26/2020

Tectonic Metals Inc. July 20 announced that drills are turning on its Tibbs Gold project less than 22 miles (35 kilometers) from Northern Star Resources Ltd.'s high-grade Pogo Gold Mine... — Updated 8/6/2020