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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 industry... — Updated 9/25/2020 Full story

Endurance Gold Corp. Oct. 16 reported that a grab sample from the Trout target on the company's Elephant Mountain project in Interior Alaska contained 23 grams per metric ton gold. This sample was... — Updated 9/25/2020

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 wondering... — Updated 9/25/2020 Full story

Reuters recently reported that the 10 largest gold-producing companies worldwide have steadily increased their near-mine exploration budgets over the past few years to 56 percent in 2015 from 45... — Updated 2/5/2018

Endurance Gold Corp. Oct. 31 reported gold intercepts in the first hole of the 2016 drill program at its Elephant Mountain gold property about 76 miles northwest of Fairbanks, Alaska. This hole, EL... — Updated 2/3/2018

Mineral exploration spending in Alaska hit an apex of US$365 million in 2011, but as venture capital for mining explorers dried these expenditures plummeted 78 percent to US$80 million in 2015. Howe... — Updated 2/3/2018

The owners of Alaska’s five large metal mines – Sumitomo Metal Mining Pogo, Hecla Mining Company, Kinross Gold Corp, Teck Resources Ltd. and Coeur Mining Inc. – accounted for nearly half the U... — Updated 1/28/2018 Full story

Earlier in November, the Alaska Miners Association held its annual convention and trade show in Anchorage and as always, the well-attended convention overlapped with election Tuesday. While the... — Updated 1/26/2018

If you have ever played or followed sporting events, you are probably familiar with that bizarre and often game-changing event known as the "change of momentum". This is when the team that was on... — Updated 1/26/2018 Full story

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

With winter programs winding down and summer efforts rapidly ramping up, it is becoming clear that 2017 will be a much more vigorous year for the Alaska mining industry than the 2013 to 2016 period.... — Updated 1/16/2018

The year just past was many things for the mining industry, but one of the bright spots came from the Mine Safety and Health Administration, an agency not known for awarding happy faces or gold... — Updated 1/16/2018

The summer solstice has come and gone, but the Alaska mining industry has paid little attention to the decreased amount of daylight because it is high summer in the high latitudes, time to be out... — Updated 1/14/2018 Full story

In early November, the Alaska Miners Association will hold its annual convention in Anchorage. Unlike the past four or five years, the excitement surrounding the convention this year is palpable... — Updated 11/5/2017

As the first snows of the coming winter began to fall at high elevations across Alaska, results of summer programs likewise began to trickle in from far-flung areas of the state. Meanwhile, second-... — Updated 10/1/2017 Full story

The Alaska mining industry continued its increased pace of activities in August, even as the first hint of autumn starts to be felt across the state. Metals prices were relatively stable with... — Updated 9/3/2017

Endurance Gold Corp. April 3 said it has entered into an option to acquire the Trout and Wolverine properties immediately northeast of its Elephant Mountain gold project in Interior Alaska. Trout... — Updated 4/9/2017

Endurance Gold Corp. Dec. 8 reported final results from a four-hole drill program completed this year at its Elephant Mountain gold property in Interior Alaska, about 76 miles northwest of... — Updated 12/18/2016

Endurance Gold Corp. Sept. 6 said a drill has been mobilized to begin a five-hole drill program at its optioned Elephant Mountain gold property in the Rampart-Manley Hot Springs area of Interior... — Updated 9/11/2016

Endurance Gold Corp. June 15 posted its 2016 exploration plans for the Elephant Mountain gold property located near Eureka in the Rampart-Manley Hot Springs area of Interior Alaska. Three targets... — Updated 6/19/2016 Full story

Earlier this month, the Alaska Miners Association held its annual convention in Anchorage amid plummeting metals prices and an over-all atmosphere of economic uncertainty now stretching into its... — Updated 11/29/2015

Endurance Gold Corp. Nov. provided results from the 2015 exploration program at its Elephant Mountain gold property about 76 miles west of Fairbanks, Alaska. To date, exploration has confirmed an... — Updated 11/15/2015

The world's mining industry has once again transmogrified itself in the face of changing global metals markets and investor expectations. In a recent Reuters report, several companies, including... — Updated 6/28/2015 Full story