(58) stories found containing 'herbert'
Sorted by date Results 1 - 25 of 58
Keeping the main thing, the main thing
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
Alaska exploration trends north ... slowly
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
Surprise discovery amid Herbert Gold veins
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 hits fifth Herbert Gold vein
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
Mixed economic signals for Alaska mining
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
Goat Vein yields more high-grade gold
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
Goat vein meets high-grade expectations
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
Mining risks change often, dramatically
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
ME2018: TerraX Minerals Inc.
TerraX Minerals Inc. has set its sights on unlocking a multimillion-ounce gold district at the Yellowknife City Gold Project, a 772-square kilometer (298 square miles) property north, south a... — Updated 11/1/2018 Full story
Assays from Herbert Gold drilling roll in
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
Excellent recoveries for Herbert Gold
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
Multi-ounce samples from Herbert Gold
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
Global warming releases arctic methane
I always get a giggle when I hear the stark warnings about the death and destruction that are going to occur as the result of the huge contribution that anthropomorphic activities, especially... — Updated 10/5/2018 Full story
Ideas, hard work, tenacity and family
HEALY: Hundreds of friends, family and colleagues arrived at Usibelli Coal Mine Inc.'s Healy operation to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the longest lived large mining operation in Alaska... — Updated 8/17/2018 Full story
Dead cat bounce for Alaska mining?
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
Celebrating 75 years at Usibelli Coal Mine
Celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, Usibelli Coal Mine (UCM) is Alaska's only operational coal mine. The company is proud to have an all-Alaska workforce of approximately 100... — Updated 7/27/2018 Full story
Alaska mineral exploration tops $100M
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 grows Herbert Gold resource
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
State administration gets into the weeds
In an earlier column (Dec. 24, 2017), the question of proposed regulations affecting mining on State land was flagged for readers’ attention because the initial scope of the contemplated ch... — Updated 2/22/2018 Full story
Good time to be in the Alaskan mineral sector
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
Mining Explorers 2017: State witnesses major upturn in activity
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
Mining Explorers 2017: TerraX Minerals Inc.
TerraX Minerals Inc. is carrying out year-round exploration aimed at unlocking a multi-million-ounce gold district at its Yellowknife City Gold Project, a 418-square kilometer (161 square miles) property north, south and east of the capital... — Updated 1/24/2018
Upbeat mood buoys outlook for AMA meet
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
Herbert Gold core looks good
Grande Portage Resources Ltd. Oct. 5 announced the completion of a 3,700-meter drill program at its Herbert Gold property about 16 miles north of Juneau, Alaska. So far, the company has outlined 821,000 metric tons of indicated resources... — Updated 1/13/2018
As winter rolls in, so do field results
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