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Fireweed Metals Corp. Aug. 22 announced that drills have tapped wide intercepts of spectacular zinc grades at Boundary Zone on the company's Macmillan Pass in Yukon, Canada. Fireweed's 2023 program... — Updated 8/24/2023

Onyx Gold Corp. Aug. 2 announced the start of a 2,500-meter drill program at King Tut, which the new Canada-focused junior explorer believes to host the best undrilled intrusive-related gold-in-soil... — Updated 8/3/2023

Fireweed Metals Corp. July 26 announced the first batch of assays from its largest drill program ever at the Macmillan Pass project in Canada's Yukon have already delivered game-changing news that... — Updated 7/27/2023

Fireweed Metals Corp. July 5 announced that in conjunction with the largest-ever planned drill program at Macmillan Pass, the company will conduct reconnaissance prospecting, mapping, and sampling... — Updated 7/26/2023

Fireweed announces MRE for tungsten that could supply North America for decades. Acquiring the Mactung tungsten project from the Northwest Territories government for C$15 million last year,... — Updated 6/22/2023

Fireweed Metals Corp. June 6 announced the start of a planned 16,000-meter drill program at Macmillan Pass in Yukon, Canada, which will be its largest-ever drill program with the goal of expanding... — Updated 6/8/2023

Fireweed Metals Corp. Feb. 27 announced the latest drill results from its 2022 drill program from Boundary Zone, which includes a noteworthy intercept that cut 105 meters averaging 8.4% zinc and... — Updated 3/11/2023

Fireweed Metals Corp. announced the last two rounds of assays from its 2022 drill program at the company's Macmillan Pass project in Yukon, Canada, signaling the receipt of all drill results and set... — Updated 3/9/2023

Fireweed Metals Corp. Feb. 15 announced additional assay results from the 2022 drill program at Boundary West on the company's Macmillan Pass project, including several significant step-outs that... — Updated 2/16/2023

Fireweed Metals Corp. Jan. 31 reported additional high-grade intercepts from the 2022 drill program on its flagship Macmillan Pass zinc-lead-silver project in the Yukon, and the well-financed... — Updated 2/8/2023

Though effects of the COVID-19 pandemic lingered, mineral explorers rushed to the Yukon like moths to a flame during 2022. Mining's most daring sector rallied to generate the busiest field season... — Updated 2/2/2023 Full story

Whether it is expanding its zinc-lead-silver resources on its flagship Macmillan Pass project in the Yukon, gaining a better understanding of its newly acquired Mactung tungsten project straddling... — Updated 1/26/2023

Mining activity in Northwest Territories held steady in 2022 despite constraints imposed by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic as a cadre of mainly junior mining companies took up the international... — Updated 1/17/2023 Full story

On the heels of its successful Macmillan Pass zinc-lead exploration play in eastern Yukon Territory, Fireweed Metals Corp. is making a bid to expand its project portfolio in what may be an astute... — Updated 12/8/2022

Fireweed Metals Corp. Nov. 17 announced that its exploration program at Gayna River revealed several potential high-grade targets at this zinc-lead-gallium-germanium project in Canada's Northwest Te... — Updated 12/3/2022

Fireweed Metals Corp. Nov. 22 announced that the second hole drilled this year at Macmillan Pass cut an impressive 124 meters averaging 12.3% zinc, 1.3% lead, and 45.9 grams per metric ton silver... — Updated 12/1/2022

Whether on purpose or by accident, Fireweed "just can't stop finding zinc." Whether it is expanding zinc-lead-silver resources on its flagship Macmillan Pass project in the Yukon, gaining a better... — Updated 9/22/2022

Tungsten could be held ransom unless domestic mines open Tungsten, or wolfram, is the 74th element on the periodic table of elements and, like many other metals that have found their way onto... — Updated 9/15/2022

Fireweed Metals Corp. July 26 announced the start of its 2022 diamond drilling program at the Macmillan Pass zinc-lead-silver project in Yukon, Canada. The 544-square-kilometer (210 square miles)... — Updated 7/28/2022

Rare earths from the Nechalacho Mine being delivered into the supply chain marks the opening of a new critical minerals chapter in the story of mining in Northwest Territories – a saga that includ... — Updated 7/7/2022 Full story

Newly renamed Fireweed Metals Corp. (previously Fireweed Zinc) July 7 announced that a ground gravity survey has begun at its recently staked Gayna River zinc-lead-silver-germanium-gallium project... — Updated 7/7/2022

Fireweed Zinc Ltd. June 20 announced that crews have been mobilized for the company's largest drill program so far at the Macmillan Pass property in Yukon, Canada. "We are very excited to start our... — Updated 6/23/2022

Fireweed Zinc Ltd. has agreed to buy the Mactung tungsten project from the Northwest Territories government for C$15 million (US$11.8 million), an acquisition that further expands the company's... — Updated 6/16/2022

Fireweed Zinc Ltd. May 10 announced the staking of the Gayna River project in Northwest Territories, Canada, adding a prospective zinc-gallium-germanium-lead-silver project to its portfolio. "The... — Updated 5/12/2022

On the heels of a productive exploration season in 2021 at the MacMillan Pass Project in Yukon Territory, Fireweed Zinc Ltd. has attracted additional capital from lead shareholders, including... — Updated 4/8/2022