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I, for one, feel vindicated, relieved and ready to face the New Year! How so, you ask? Please let me explain. For those of you who remember my column in November, I noted that EY Global... — Updated 1/25/2019 Full story

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 1/25/2019 Full story

Grande Portage Resources Ltd. Jan. 8 announced the discovery of a new gold zone directly beneath a drill pad used to target the high-grade gold veins at the company's Herbert Gold project a... — Updated 1/18/2019 Full story

Grande Portage Resources Ltd. Jan. 3 reported that drilling has cut gold in the North Vein, which marks the fifth subparallel gold structure confirmed with drilling on the company's Herbert... — Updated 1/11/2019

As the year waned, Alaska's mining industry reported some of the last of its 2018 seasonal field results while the University of Alaska and state of Alaska released some current and... — Updated 1/4/2019 Full story

Grande Portage Resources Ltd. Nov. 27 reported another high-grade gold intercept for this year's drilling at the Goat Vein on the company's Herbert Gold project in Southeast Alaska. Hole... — Updated 12/7/2018

Grande Portage Resources Ltd. Oct. 29 said drilling has tapped high-grade gold in the Goat vein on the Herbert Gold project in Southeast Alaska. Earlier this year, Grande Portage reported ver... — Updated 11/2/2018

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

Grande Portage Resources Ltd. Oct. 22 reported results from the first two holes of a 15-hole drill program out at the company's Herbert Gold project in Southeast Alaska. These initial holes o... — Updated 11/2/2018

Grande Portage Resources Ltd. Oct. 15 said recent metallurgical testing shows excellent gold recoveries from samples of the mineralized veins at the company's Herbert Gold project in... — Updated 10/26/2018 Full story

Grande Portage Resources Ltd. Oct. 10 said channel sampling of a recently exposed section of quartz vein supports the company's belief that Goat Vein could be another prolific, high-grade gol... — Updated 10/19/2018

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

The summer field season is in full bloom across Alaska with programs stretching from the Brooks Range to southeastern Alaska, and from the Yukon border to southwestern Alaska. Exploration... — Updated 7/6/2018 Full story

Grande Portage Resources Ltd. May 28 filed an NI 43-101-compliant technical report with an updated resource estimate for the company's Herbert Gold project in Southeast Alaska. Incorporating... — Updated 6/8/2018 Full story

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

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

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... — 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,... — 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... — Updated 9/3/2017

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... — Updated 1/16/2018

As a follow-up to last month's realization that once again "the game is afoot" in the mining industry, major gold producer Goldcorp recently presented some arresting statistics at the Bank... — Updated 1/26/2018

For those of you that could not attend, the annual Alaska Miners Association Convention and Trade Show was well-attended, with most people pleasantly surprised by the strong turnout.... — Updated 11/24/2013 Full story

The ongoing scarcity of venture capital available to junior companies coupled with a retreat in metals prices has landed a one-two blow that sent mineral exploration spending in Alaska... — Updated 11/3/2013