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

Droves of exploration companies have rushed to Yukon Territory in recent years to hunt for sizable deposits of gold, silver, copper, rare earth elements and base metals. Employing the most advanced geophysical and geochemical techniques available,... — Updated 11/20/2011

China Minerals Mining Corp., formerly Hawthorne Gold Corp., is gearing up to begin its 2011 exploration program at the company's two northern British Columbia gold properties, Table Mountain and Taurus. China Minerals is the result of a fortuitous... — Updated 7/31/2011

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,... — Updated 1/23/2011 Full story

Efforts to build an electricity transmission line critical to economic development of northwestern British Columbia moved closer to reality in 2010. Cheered by the prospect of access to cheap power, scores of miners flocked to the region to... — Updated 10/31/2010 Full story

AOT: TSX-V President and CEO: John A. Toffan Chief Financial Officer: Robert A. Evans Ascot Resources Ltd., a junior exploration and development company formed in 1986, holds four major properties - the Swamp Point sand and gravel deposit on the... — Updated 10/31/2010

Most of the mining companies looking for minerals in northern British Columbia ushered in 2009 with high hopes and little else. "It's a perfect storm. The credit crunch in the world financial system has led to a worldwide recession and a collapse... — Updated 11/1/2009

HGC: TSX-V President and CEO: Richard J. Barclay Chairman: Michael Beley Vice President, Mining: Michael Petrina Formed in 2006, Hawthorne Gold Corp. is a gold exploration and development company with three late-state exploration and development pr... — Updated 11/1/2009 Full story

Producing mines Thompson Creek Metals Co. operates the Endako Mine, a molybdenum producer for more than 40 years. Located near Fraser Lake in northern British Columbia, Endako includes three open pits, a mill and a roasting facility, and is... — Updated 2/22/2009 Full story

The Northwest Transmission Line along Highway 37 is once again on the front burner in British Columbia, and development of the 517-kilometer-long, or 321-mile-long, power line could provide easier access to Lower 48 markets for power generated in... — Updated 10/26/2008 Full story

A century ago, gold fever rampaged across Alaska and miners could be found everywhere from the beaches of Nome to the mountains of Juneau. Today there's been another outbreak of the symptoms. Explorers' boots are again trudging through some of the... — Updated 10/29/2006

You could say David H. Brett has Cassiar Valley gold production in his blood. Brett is president of Cusac Gold Mines Ltd., a company with a history of finding and producing gold in northern British Columbia that dates back half a century. Brett's... — Updated 9/24/2006

Drop by Galore Creek camp this summer and you're sure to be well fed. A lively bunch of young people load up their plates with steak, shrimp, potatoes, salads and cakes, refueling after another rainy day in the field. The only slight problem for... — Updated 9/24/2006

Barrick's Eskay Creek mine in British Columbia isn't a bad place to work underground. The miners are well paid and happy to be doing their jobs alone, without a boss looking over their shoulder all the time. They consider the search for gold an... — Updated 9/24/2006

A woman who appears on a "Legends of the West" postal stamp and a man who killed two people in gunfights were inducted into the Alaska Mining Hall of Fame in March. Nellie Cashman and Jack Dalton followed very different paths in life, although... — Updated 4/23/2006 Full story

One of British Columbia's largest advanced exploration projects has taken a leap forward this summer, with the camp at Galore Creek expanding from 75 people to 175 people. Vancouver-based NovaGold Resources, well-known in Alaska with its Donlin... — Updated 7/24/2005 Full story

Sawson City, Yukon epitomizes the romance of the Gold Rush, so it was a little surprising that the first field trip arranged as part of this year's Northern Latitudes Reclamation Workshop was to an extremely unglamorous site: the former asbestos... — Updated 6/19/2005

NovaGold Resources appears to have hit another prospecting grand slam one year after optioning the Galore Creek project in a remote section of northwestern British Columbia. The Vancouver, British Columbia-based junior in August released... — Updated 9/12/2004

Already a giant-sized deposit containing lots of gold, silver and copper, Galore Creek's allure is in its undefined expansion potential, according to the property's developer. NovaGold Resources and its Canadian subsidiary, SpectrumGold, have... — Updated 7/11/2004

NovaGold Resources and its Canadian subsidiary SpectrumGold are increasing spending this year for the company's Galore Creek property in remote northwestern British Columbia, kicking off a large, aggressive drilling and advanced exploration... — Updated 6/20/2004

Geologists working for NovaGold Resources are going to be busy across the border in northwestern Canada this summer. The company's Canadian subsidiary, SpectrumGold, plans to spend $5 million for its Galore Creek advanced stage exploration project... — Updated 3/14/2004