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Mining and mineral exploration helped to bolster an Alaskan economy plagued by COVID-19 during 2020. According to a report prepared by the McKinley Research Group, a renowned... — Updated 2/25/2021 Full story

Alaska mines produced roughly $3.16 billion worth of non-fuel minerals during 2020, a slight increase over the $3.13 billion during 2019, according to Mineral Commodity Summaries 2021... — Updated 2/10/2021 Full story

Strong metal prices and an infusion of cash from notable resource investors helped to salvage much of a 2020 mineral exploration season in Alaska that became lethargic with disruptions,... — Updated 2/4/2021 Full story

Avidian Gold Corp. Jan. 27 reported that it is preparing for a 2021 drill program to expand upon the gold mineralization encountered last year on its Amanita project in Alaska's Fairbanks... — Updated 1/28/2021

Millrock Resources Inc. Jan. 12 announced that it has vended three of its Alaska gold exploration projects – Treasure Creek, Ester Dome, and Liberty Bell – to Alaska-based subsidiarie... — Updated 1/22/2021

White Gold Corp. continues its systematic exploration of dozens of targets it has identified across its more than 1-million-acre land package in Yukon's White Gold District. In June, the... — Updated 1/18/2021 Full story

As a project generating exploration company, Millrock Resources Inc. identifies and secures grassroots mineral projects and brings on partners to fund the high-risk early stages of... — Updated 1/17/2021 Full story

Freegold Ventures Ltd. struck gold in Alaska, both literally and figuratively, during 2020. While it is no surprise that the Vancouver, British Columbia-based mineral explorer tapped... — Updated 1/17/2021 Full story

While Contango ORE Inc. opted not to carry out a 2020 field program in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, this unconventional mineral exploration company oft referred to as CORE churned... — Updated 1/17/2021 Full story

Following the July closing of a C$2 million private placement in which Eric Sprott acquired 20 million Avidian Gold Corp. shares, the junior explorer resumed exploration of its expanded... — Updated 1/17/2021 Full story

When Sabina Gold & Silver Corp. acquired the Back River gold project in Canada's far north in 2009, the junior set out to tame a baby elephant. More than a decade later, the project... — Updated 1/14/2021 Full story

Kinross Gold Corp. has rolled out a strategy to double gold production at its Fort Knox Mine by feeding higher grade ore into the underutilized 14-million-metric-ton-per-year mill at the... — Updated 1/14/2021 Full story

Though gold is not considered a metal critical to the United States, this increasingly valuable precious metal could serve as a pathfinder element for several of the other minerals and... — Updated 12/30/2020 Full story

Would you consider drinking heavy metals to make your stomach feel better? A serum containing arsenic, cadmium, lead or mercury would only make matters worse and could be deadly.... — Updated 12/30/2020 Full story

Tectonic Metals Inc. Dec. 21 reported that its initial prospecting of Carrie Creek, a newly acquired project immediately adjacent to Tibbs, has turned up intrusion-hosted gold... — Updated 12/30/2020

Avidian Gold Corp. Dec. 17 reports that the second hole of its 2020 drill program at Amanita encountered the most significant gold intercept so far on this project that lies alongside... — Updated 12/23/2020 Full story

America's supply of tungsten, an extremely durable metal that is vital to a broad range of American industrial sectors, is at high-risk. A recent U.S. Geological Survey assessment to iden... — Updated 12/23/2020 Full story

Peak Gold LLC, a joint venture between Kinross Gold Corp. (70%) and Contango ORE Inc. (30%), have agreed to invest US$18 million during 2021 to carry out the work needed to complete a... — Updated 12/17/2020 Full story

Golden Sky Minerals Corp. (formerly Luckystrike Resources Ltd.) Dec. 10 reported promising results from its 2020 drilling at Hotspot, a 46.4-square-kilometer (17.9 square miles) gold... — Updated 12/10/2020

As a private company, Western Alaska Copper & Gold Company has done a great job steadily advancing the multiple precious and base metals deposits and targets across its 34,000-acre Il... — Updated 12/3/2020 Full story

A highly anticipated and long-awaited batch of assay results show that Freegold Ventures Ltd.'s 2020 drill program at Golden Summit continues to tap bonanza grade gold along with the... — Updated 11/25/2020

Alaska Department of Natural Resources and Department of Environmental Conservation Oct. 27 announced that reclamation of the True North gold mine north of Fairbanks has been... — Updated 11/25/2020

In the few months since taking the helm at Contango ORE Inc., Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse has steered this unconventional mineral exploration company toward being the 30% owner of Alaska's... — Updated 11/19/2020 Full story

Kinross Gold Corp. Nov. 4 reported a significant increase in gold production and drop in costs at its Fort Knox Mine about 20 miles north of Fairbanks, Alaska. "At Fort Knox, we are very... — Updated 11/12/2020

Kinross Gold Corp.'s new long-term strategy for its Fort Knox Mine is a paradigm shift for mineral exploration companies with gold projects on or near the road system within a... — Updated 10/29/2020 Full story