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With the September completion of a feasibility study that details a very economically robust gold-silver mine at Eskay Creek, Skeena Resources Ltd. has focused its drilling on near-surface mineraliz... — Updated 1/18/2023

Eskay Mining Corp. Dec. 15 reported that its 2022 drilling has expanded the TV-Jeff volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits on its namesake gold-silver project in Northern British Columbia. Covering a... — Updated 12/15/2022

Skeena Resources Ltd. Nov. 8 reported that its 2022 drilling has cut high-grade gold-silver mineralization to the south of and below the Eskay Creek open pit mine detailed in a feasibility study... — Updated 11/10/2022

Drills tap gold-silver in former waste rock of proposed pit Skeena Resources Ltd. Sept. 6 announced the first batch of assay results from a 2022 drill program focused largely on supplementing the... — Updated 9/8/2022

Garibaldi Resources Corp. May 13 reported that early-stage exploratory drilling at the Casper target on its Nickel Mountain property in British Columbia's Golden Triangle cut gold mineralization... — Updated 5/19/2022

Despite a season challenged by heavy rains and an early snowstorm, the massive amount of exploration carried out in Northern British Columbia during 2021 piled loads of drill core and surface... — Updated 1/26/2022 Full story

Bonanza gold grades tapped during Ascot Resources Ltd.'s 2020 drill program can only sweeten what is shaping up to be an economically robust operation at its Premier Mine project just outside of... — Updated 7/8/2021 Full story

Garibaldi Resources Corp. June 1 announced that crews have arrived at the camp at Nickel Mountain for a 2021 exploration program that will further explore the battery metals for which this Northern... — Updated 6/17/2021

Skeena Resources Ltd. May 20 reported high-grade gold intercepts from its 2021 phase-3 infill and exploration drill program at Snip, home to a historic high-grade underground mine in British Columbi... — Updated 5/20/2021

Challenged by a global pandemic and a particularly wet summer, many of Northern British Columbia's mineral explorers became adept to adjusting on the fly as they endeavored to unlock the rich precio... — Updated 2/4/2021 Full story

Enduro Metals Corp. is focused on expanding the gold, silver, and copper mineralization being exposed by the rapidly retreating glaciers on its 638-square-kilometer (246 square miles) Newmont Lake... — Updated 1/18/2021 Full story

With robust support from the investment community, encouragement from Barrick Gold Corp., and a strong working relationship with the Tahltan First Nation, Skeena Resources Ltd. is rapidly advancing... — Updated 1/14/2021 Full story

Skeena Resources Ltd. Jan. 6 reported additional high-grade gold and silver intercepts at its Eskay Creek mine project in Northern British Columbia, including a previous undiscovered area of at... — Updated 1/7/2021

Skeena Resources Ltd. Dec. 8 reported that the phase-1 drill program at Eskay Creek continues to verify the expected grades, thickness and continuity of mineralization modelled in 22 Zone and encoun... — Updated 12/17/2020

Ascot Resources Ltd. Oct. 8 reported that drilling has tapped high-grade silver mineralization at the aptly named Silver Hill, an exploration target about 2,000 meters northeast of the planned under... — Updated 10/16/2020

Crystal Lake Mining Corp. June 22 reported the first high-grade gold mineralization, along with additional copper, gold, silver, zinc, and lead mineralization tapped while testing three target... — Updated 9/26/2020

Garibaldi Resources Corp. Jan. 22 reported wide near-surface intervals of nickel- and copper-rich mineralization from nine holes drilled last year at Nickel Mountain, a magmatic sulfide system... — Updated 9/26/2020

Skeena Resources Ltd. Oct. 22 said drills have tapped high-grade gold in newly identified mineralized horizon below the current resource at the Eskay Creek project in British Columbia's Golden... — Updated 9/26/2020

Ascot Resources Ltd. Sept. 24 said it has completed its roughly 44,000 meters of resources expansion and upgrade drilling at the Big Missouri, Silver Coin and Premier deposit areas and has begun gra... — Updated 9/26/2020

Garibaldi Resources Corp. Sept. 12 reported assay results from the longest massive sulfide and mineralization intercepts so far at Nickel Mountain, a magmatic nickel- and copper-rich sulfide system... — Updated 9/26/2020

Skeena Resources Ltd. Sept. 9 announced that infill drilling at its Eskay Creek project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle has discovered a previously unidentified vent carrying high-grade gold... — Updated 9/26/2020

Whether it be precious metals such as gold and silver, base metals like copper and zinc, or battery metals like nickel and cobalt, northern British Columbia is rich in the type of metal deposits... — Updated 8/14/2020 Full story

Skeena Resources Ltd. hopes to breathe new life into Eskay Creek and Snip, iconic Golden Triangle gold mines previously operated by Barrick Gold Corp. Over a 14-year span ending in 2008, an undergro... — Updated 8/14/2020

Crystal Lake Mining Corp. is finding plentiful copper, gold and silver mineralization emerging from the rapidly retreating glaciers on its Newmont Lake project in British Columbia's Golden... — Updated 8/14/2020 Full story

At a time when electric vehicles are driving up nickel demand, Garibaldi Resources Inc. is unveiling an extremely high-grade deposit of this battery metal at its Nickel Mountain project about 18... — Updated 8/14/2020