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

Those of you that attended the recent Cordilleran Roundup Convention in Vancouver can attest to the exuberant, upbeat atmosphere that pervaded the conference and was very much in... — Updated 3/15/2019 Full story

StrikePoint Gold Inc. March 20 announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Willoughby, a gold-silver project about 30 kilometers (19 miles) east of Stewart,... — Updated 3/22/2019 Full story

StrikePoint Gold Inc. Jan. 16 announced that it has signed a letter of intent to acquire Willoughby, a gold-silver exploration project about 30 kilometers (19 miles) east of... — Updated 1/25/2019 Full story

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... — Updated 1/4/2019 Full story

PolarX Ltd. has put together an 85,750-acre (347 square miles) land package just off Alaska's road system that already hosts deposits rich in copper and gold yet remains vastly... — Updated 11/30/2018 Full story

PolarX Ltd. Nov. 12 reported strong copper-gold results from another hole drilled in an area about 850 meters east of the Zackly skarn deposit that is emerging as a potential open... — Updated 11/23/2018 Full story

PolarX Ltd. Nov. 5 said a high‐resolution aeromagnetic geophysical survey flown this fall over most of the Stellar property, part of the Australian explorer's Alaska Range... — Updated 11/16/2018

Sojourn Exploration Inc. Nov. 2 provided preliminary results of reconnaissance mapping, sampling and geophysical surveys on four of its porphyry copper-gold projects in British... — Updated 11/16/2018 Full story

Millrock Resources Inc. is a project generating mineral exploration company with five projects in Alaska, three in British Columbia (transferred to Sojourn Exploration Inc.), 16 in... — Updated 11/23/2018 Full story

2018 is a milestone year for Kinross Gold Corp. – 25 years as a growing force in the global gold mining sector. Over its first quarter-century, Kinross has grown exponentially, fr... — Updated 11/23/2018 Full story

Nova Minerals Ltd. (formerly Quantum Resources Ltd.) completed an inaugural drill program in 2018 at its newly acquired Estelle gold-copper-silver project about 100 miles northwest... — Updated 11/12/2018 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... — Updated 3/1/2019 Full story

Titanium conjures images of the durable and lightweight metal used to build aircraft, replacement hips, high-end bicycle frames and even quality golf clubs. While its outstanding... — Updated 10/26/2018 Full story

With the completion of a C$2.8 million financing, along with the closing of property acquisition agreements with Millrock Resources Inc. and Seven Devils Exploration Ltd., Sojourn... — Updated 9/28/2018 Full story

PolarX Ltd. Sept. 20 announced that it has encountered deeper high-grade gold-copper-silver mineralization east of the Zackly skarn deposit on the Australian explorer's Alaska... — Updated 9/28/2018 Full story

PolarX Ltd. reported additional high-grade gold-copper mineralization well outside the resource boundary at the Zackly skarn deposit on the Australian explorer's Alaska Range... — Updated 9/7/2018 Full story

PolarX Ltd. Aug. 15 reported that assay results confirm the outstanding copper-gold mineralization observed in the core from hole ZX-18020, a hole drilled some 850 meters east of... — Updated 8/24/2018

Millrock Resources Inc. Aug. 9 announced it has sold its three gold-copper exploration projects in the Golden Triangle region of northwestern British Columbia – Oweegee Dome,... — Updated 8/17/2018

Nova Minerals Ltd. (formerly Quantum Resources Ltd.) July 31 said it plans to complete at least 8,000 meters of drilling over the next six to eight weeks at the Estelle gold-copper-... — Updated 8/10/2018 Full story

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... — Updated 8/3/2018 Full story

Millrock Resources Inc. July 18 said roughly US$5 million of partner-funded exploration is being carried out across its portfolio of mineral properties, including 10,000 meters of... — Updated 7/27/2018

PolarX Ltd. July 17 reported that strong, visible copper and gold mineralization was seen in ZX‐18018, a recently completed hole that drilled about 100 meters below the current... — Updated 11/9/2018

MACLAREN RIVER: A cold summer rain drizzling down on the exploration camp does not dampen the spirits of PolarX Ltd. Executive Director Jason Berton ... and for good reason. Laid... — Updated 7/20/2018 Full story

PolarX Ltd. June 19 reported the start of a 5,000-meter drill program focused on expanding the high-grade Zackly copper-gold skarn deposit at the company's Alaska Range project.... — Updated 6/29/2018 Full story

PolarX Ltd. is ready to kick off the initial phase of its 2018 drill program at its Alaska Range copper-gold project. Encompassing the Stellar and Caribou Dome properties, the... — Updated 6/8/2018 Full story