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

HighGold drilling expands gold-rich Ellis Zone north of 1M oz JT Deposit. With the latest batch of assay results showing the drills are continuing to cut broad layers of high-grade gold... — Updated 10/6/2022

HighGold Mining Inc. Sept. 12 announced that its 2022 drilling is extending high-grade gold mineralization at Ellis Zone, a recently identified mineralized trend associated with the... — Updated 9/22/2022

HighGold Mining Inc. July 12 announced a 40% increase in the gold-equivalent resource at the JT deposit on the company's Johnson Tract property in Southcentral Alaska. According to the... — Updated 7/28/2022

HighGold Mining Inc. June 22 reported that testing shows that conventional metallurgical techniques yield very high-quality copper, zinc, lead, and gold concentrates from the JT deposit... — Updated 6/30/2022

HighGold Mining Inc. May 31 announced plans for a US$9 million exploration program at Johnson Tract that will include at least 13,000 meters of drilling to expand upon known polymetallic... — Updated 6/9/2022

On March 18, 2022, Alaska's mining community lost Bill Ellis, a close friend and geologist that was universally loved for his kind spirit and optimism, traits that will live on as a... — Updated 3/31/2022 Full story

While copper has the potential to be a major contributor to Alaska's economic future, this "new oil" of the low-carbon economy will be hard-pressed to beat out the old money being... — Updated 2/24/2022 Full story

HighGold Mining Inc. Jan. 25 reported that the geological mapping, geochemical sampling, geophysical surveys, and exploration drilling carried out during 2021 has shown that the strong... — Updated 2/10/2022

Assays are pending, the unofficial slogan of the 2021 mineral exploration season across Alaska and Canada's North, is a phrase that continues to echo in a void left by the lack of drill r... — Updated 2/3/2022

HighGold Mining Inc. is rapidly unlocking the potential of Johnson Tract, a high-grade polymetallic gold project that exemplifies the exceptional mineral exploration opportunities Alaska... — Updated 1/26/2022 Full story

With more than half of Alaska's entire population living within its region, Cook Inlet Region Inc., more commonly known as CIRI, is the most metropolitan of the 12 landholding Alaska... — Updated 1/6/2022 Full story

HighGold Mining Inc. Dec. 21 reported that assay results from the 2021 infill and resource expansion drilling continue to cut broad zones of both precious and base metals in and around th... — Updated 12/30/2021 Full story

HighGold Mining Inc. Dec. 2 reported that its first pass drilling at Difficult Creek is beginning to outline the potential for this prospect area on its Johnson Tract property in Alaska... — Updated 12/30/2021

HighGold Mining Inc. Oct. 13 reported a long intercept of high-grade gold in an infill hole drilled to collect material for phase I metallurgical work and to provide better definition of... — Updated 10/28/2021

HighGold Mining Inc. Oct. 6 reported a 6.4-meter-wide intercept of bonanza grade gold and silver in the first hole it has ever drilled at Difficult Creek, an exploration target about 2.5... — Updated 10/21/2021

JOHNSON TRACT, Alaska – A nearly half-a-million-ounce gold deposit sitting on a 7.5-mile trend of obvious yet underexplored mineralization just a few miles from the coast in Southcentra... — Updated 9/30/2021

Throughout the relatively short modern history of Alaska, many nameless and oft unrecognized explorers have contributed to the Last Frontier state in ways that future generations will... — Updated 9/30/2021 Full story

HighGold Mining Inc. Sept. 14 cut strong mineralization in the first resource expansion hole at JT deposit, as assay results start to roll in from the company's 2021 program at the... — Updated 9/16/2021 Full story

HighGold Mining Inc. June 23 announced it has expanded its 2021 drill program at Johnson Tract to 20,000 meters, a 25% increase over the 16,000 meters originally slated and the largest... — Updated 7/29/2021

HighGold Mining Inc. May 6 outlined plans for an initial US$8.2 million (C$10 million) 2021 exploration program at its Johnson Tract polymetallic gold project in Southcentral Alaska that... — Updated 5/27/2021

HighGold Mining Inc. April 13 said the final batch of assay results from the 2020 drilling at Johnson Tract in Southcentral Alaska includes one hole that extended the JT deposit by about... — Updated 5/6/2021

HighGold Mining Inc. March 10 announced that its 2020 drilling has discovered a new zone of what appears to be zinc-rich volcanogenic massive sulfide mineralization near the JT deposit, w... — Updated 4/29/2021

HighGold Mining Inc. March 22 reported that results from its 2020 regional exploration program at Johnson Tract in Southcentral Alaska continue to identify zones of high-grade gold and... — Updated 4/15/2021

HighGold Mining Inc. Feb. 11 announced that surface sampling has turned up zones of high-grade silver and copper at the Difficult Creek prospect about 2.5 miles (four kilometers)... — Updated 2/25/2021

HighGold Mining Inc. Jan. 21 reported that the latest batch of results from the 2020 drill program at its Johnson Tract project in Alaska has confirmed the expansion potential of the... — Updated 2/18/2021