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

Thanks largely to increased investments from Aussie mining explorers, mineral exploration spending across Alaska topped US$100 million in 2018. This is well above the roughly US$95 million... — Updated 11/30/2018 Full story

In 1918, the Premier gold mine opened a few miles north of Stewart, a mining town that is the southern gateway to British Columbia's famed Golden Triangle. Over the ensuing 34 years, this... — Updated 11/30/2018 Full story

WESTERN ALASKA Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. announced that it had finalized a surface right of way agreement with Alaska Peninsula Corporation for use of that latter's lands for the... — Updated 12/7/2018 Full story

More than three dozen explorers chased lucrative mineral deposits in Yukon Territory in 2017 and most of these junior and senior companies returned to the northern jurisdiction this year to... — Updated 11/30/2018 Full story

Thanks to its ongoing exploration success, Hecla Mining Company entered 2018 with the highest silver, gold and lead reserves in its 127-year history, as well as the highest level of zinc... — Updated 10/21/2018 Full story

A combination of exploration and acquisition substantially boosted Coeur Mining Inc.'s precious metals reserves and resources in 2018. The Chicago-based miner entered the year with 335.8... — Updated 11/1/2018 Full story

As Alaska's mining industry nears the end of another hectic year during which metals prices and investor sentiments rose and fell as precipitously as the world's major stock exchanges, the... — Updated 11/9/2018 Full story

Coeur Mining Inc. Oct. 9 indicated that it expects strong precious metals production from its Silvertip Mine in northern British Columbia and Kensington Mine in Southeast Alaska during the... — Updated 10/19/2018

Less than a year after its acquisition of Silvertip, Coeur Mining Inc. has reached commercial production at the high-grade silver-zinc-lead mine in northern British Columbia. During August,... — Updated 9/14/2018 Full story

Underscoring the interconnected nature of the global mining market, not 48 hours after the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act was signed into law, the mining industry began... — Updated 9/7/2018 Full story

Coeur Mining Inc. said thick zones of high-grade silver, zinc and lead cut during a 44,500-meter drill program at the company's newly acquired Silvertip Mine indicate the robust resource... — Updated 8/10/2018 Full story

Although the Alaska mineral industry is in better health in the middle of 2018 than it has been in the last five years, the spirited recovery that was in progress in the first quarter of the... — Updated 8/3/2018 Full story

Coeur Mining Inc. July 9 reported a steady climb in mill throughput rates at its newly commissioned Silvertip Mine in northern British Columbia during the second quarter of 2018. Last... — Updated 7/20/2018

One of the most common complaints I hear from companies and individuals working in the mineral industry in Alaska is our deplorable lack of modern, usable-scale digital geophysical and... — Updated 6/8/2018 Full story

An early spring coupled with low snow fall in many parts of Alaska have combined to enable companies large and small to start their summer field programs early this year. As expected, competi... — Updated 4/26/2018 Full story

Coeur Mining Inc. April 25 reported a 25 percent increase in proven and probable reserves at its Kensington gold mine. According to the updated technical report, Kensington now hosts 620,700... — Updated 6/17/2018 Full story

Coeur Mining Inc. April 9 reported that the Kensington Mine in Southeast Alaska produced 26,064 ounces of gold during the first quarter of this year, which is comparable to the 26,197 oz... — Updated 4/20/2018

Coeur Mining Inc. March 8 announced that it has completed commissioning of the mill at Silvertip and begun production at the high-grade silver mine in northern British Columbia. "The... — Updated 3/23/2018 Full story

Seven days of near-continuous rain did nothing to dampen the mood at the recently concluded Cordilleran Roundup Convention in Vancouver. The event was buoyed by a realistic optimism we have... — Updated 3/1/2018 Full story

Coeur Mining Inc. Feb. 6 reported healthy increases to its precious metals reserves and resources thanks to the exploration and acquisition programs it carried out in 2017. "During 2017, we... — Updated 2/16/2018

As we transition from 2017 into 2018, the weight of evidence pointing to a long-awaited mining industry up-tick is being trumpeted from every financial institution, brokerage house and... — Updated 1/26/2018 Full story

Coeur Mining Inc. Jan. 8 reported that its Kensington Mine produced 115,094 ounces of gold in 2017, falling short of the 120,000 to 125,000 oz the company anticipated from the Southeast... — Updated 1/19/2018

With the price for an ounce of gold pushing back above US$1,300 to ring in the new year – along with zinc and copper selling at multi-year highs and trending higher – 2018 is shaping up... — Updated 1/12/2018 Full story

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has decided not to impose additional bonding requirements on the American mining sector, the regulator announced on Dec. 1. Under the Obama Administra... — Updated 1/10/2018

Alaska's minerals exploration sector is on an upswing, thanks to Australian mining explorers looking north and mining majors upping their activities in the state. South32 Ltd., a Perth,... — Updated 1/24/2018 Full story