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Time for U.S. to address mineral problem
Access to critical minerals and metals is vital to America's military strength and economic health. As we move further forward into the technology age, we need a range of non-fuel minerals - from antimony to zinc - for defense technologies that... — Updated 10/28/2012
Alaska mining projects took hit in 2012
As the first cooler days and termination dust start appearing across Alaska, seasonal exploration activities are winding down and operating mines are preparing for another winter. To be sure, less... — Updated 9/30/2012
State, feds plan digital maps for Alaska
In a long overdue step to bring Alaska into the 21st Century, state and federal agencies met in late June to discuss collaborative funding strategies for Alaska's Statewide Digital Mapping... — Updated 7/29/2012 Full story
Geologists brave Canada's last frontier
David Mate, chief geologist for the Canada Nunavut Geoscience Office, is part of a team of scientists venturing this field season into relatively unknown territory. Mate refers to the Hall Peninsula where he will be working this summer as "white... — Updated 4/29/2012
Mining Explorers 2011: Explorers seek Alaska mammoths
Whether it is multimillion-ounce gold discoveries, copper deposits that measure in the billions of pounds or massive ore-bodies of 20 percent zinc, Alaska is renowned for its mammoth deposits. The... — Updated 11/6/2011
Mining Explorers 2011: Explorers swarm Canada's Far North
Throughout the 2011 field season, explorers pushed the envelope in Yukon Territory, scrambling to target and assess rapidly increasing numbers of deposits of gold, silver and base metals mineralization being identified as the exploration rush that... — Updated 11/6/2011
Silent summer spells good news in Alaska
Every year about this time, I notice new ways to gauge just how busy the Alaska mining industry is. This year, it is the silence. Not the amazing silence of a mountaintop in the Alaska Range but... — Updated 7/31/2011
Exploration season shifts into high gear
The last month has seen a massive transition in Alaska from planning to execution, from getting ready to go to the field to boots on the outcrop and drills in the ground. Each year the hustle and... — Updated 6/26/2011 Full story
2010 Mining Explorers: Freegold Ventures Ltd.
FVL: TSX-V President and CEO: Kristina Walcott Chief Financial Officer: Gordon Steblin Vice President, Exploration: Michael Gross Weighed down with about C$11 million in debt in mid-2009, it appeared Freegold Ventures Ltd. would become another... — Updated 10/31/2010 Full story
Explorers seek new uranium discoveries
While intrepid juniors are busy pursuing another season of uranium exploration in Nunavut, the Government of Nunavut, in partnership with the federal government through the Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Office are participating in a major... — Updated 8/29/2010
Geo-mapping Far North pays dividends
As we contemplate manned space flights to Mars, it may be hard to believe that there are still vast areas of the earth's surface that we have yet to explore. Believe it. The world's knowledge of the geology of Canada's Far North is very limited.... — Updated 7/25/2010
Remote territory offers mineral bonanza
No discussion of opening Canada's Far North to mineral resource development could get far without the focus turning to Nunavut, the nation's newest and least-explored territory. At one-fifth the size of Canada, Nunavut contains 1,994,000 million... — Updated 3/28/2010
Amalco vows to be force in exploration
Left leaderless and weighed down with about C$11 million in debt in mid-2009, it appeared Freegold Ventures Ltd. would become another casualty of the market collapse of 2008. Many believe this... — Updated 2/28/2010
Junior scores 'major' coup in Far North
Among juniors actively working to attract majors to invest in mineral exploration projects scattered across Canada's Far North, one Vancouver, B.C.-based company leaped to the front of the pack recently in Nunavut Territory. Commander Resources... — Updated 1/17/2010
Romios finds deposit near Galore Creek
Romios Gold Resources Inc. Nov. 11 reported the discovery of significant copper, gold and silver mineralization on its Dirk Property located about 37 kilometers, or 24 miles, southeast of NovaGold Resources Inc.-Teck Resources Ltd.'s giant Galore... — Updated 11/22/2009
New agency for 'North' awards key grants
Canada's new economic development agency for the Far North has awarded a new round of mining research and business development grants, providing significant funding to key projects in Nunavut, Northwest Territories and Yukon Territory. Known as... — Updated 10/25/2009 Full story
Miners miss out on ample opportunities
I have been reading the tea leaves and think there is an extremely important sequence of events unfolding that represents a golden opportunity for Alaska. Please bear with me as I try to wade... — Updated 6/28/2009
Miner eyes Yukon, northern B.C. projects
If it were entirely up to Copper Ridge Explorations Inc., the project generator would explore most of its mineral properties in Yukon Territory, northern British Columbia and Alaska this summer. But tough economic times have forced the Vancouver,... — Updated 5/31/2009
Rough days may be ahead for mining
Last month we talked about economic impacts of the Alaska mining industry. This month, the world mineral exploration industry is in our crosshairs. Halifax-based Metals Economics Group reported... — Updated 4/26/2009
Junior chases B.C. zinc-lead-silver deposits
Canada Zinc Metals Corp. Oct. 8 said the first assay results of its 2008 drill program has significantly expanded the zinc-lead-silver bearing Cardiac Creek deposit on the Akie property in northeastern British Columbia. The news came less than two... — Updated 10/26/2008
Exploration advances in Selwyn Basin
HOWARD'S PASS, Yukon Territory - In this wide, alpine valley that snakes across the border into the Northwest Territories at its southeastern tip, one of the world's largest zinc-lead-silver properties may slumber. First drilled by a joint venture... — Updated 9/28/2008
No better place for gold discoveries
Everyone who is planning to work on Alaska mineral projects in 2008 is busy doing just that as the longest day of summer quickly approaches. Programs ranging from grass-roots prospecting to multimillion-dollar feasibility studies are spread over... — Updated 6/29/2008 Full story
Barr offers voice of reason
Rosie Barr, spokeswoman for NANA's "Voices of Reason Campaign," told Mining News that anti-mining initiatives expected to come before Alaska voters on this fall's ballot would shut down existing mines like the huge Red Dog zinc-lead mine in... — Updated 6/29/2008
High summer busy time for deals, as well as exploration, development activity
It is high summer in Alaska and the wheeling and dealing are nearly as frenetic as the exploration, development and production going on all around the state. New deals continue to be cut on old and... — Updated 7/29/2007
Alaska mining news summary: Three new companies come to Alaska; exploration planned on two old producers
The exploration season has started but not before a bevy of new corporate competitors have entered the Alaska mineral scene and not before a number of past producing mines have been dragged into... — Updated 4/29/2007
