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In less than a decade, Northern Star Resources Ltd. has built a multi-billion-dollar mining company by breathing new life into aging underground gold mines in Australia. Now, the Perth-based company... — Updated 4/19/2019 Full story

Welcome to the 10th anniversary of Mining Explorers! While there have been tectonic shifts in the mineral exploration markets over the past decade, two things have remained rock solid – mining... — Updated 3/29/2019 Full story

When it comes to attracting mining investment, Alaska, British Columbia and all three Canadian territories rank among the top 20 jurisdictions in the world on the Fraser Institute Survey of Mining... — Updated 3/15/2019 Full story

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 evidence at the... — Updated 3/15/2019 Full story

When Northern Star Resources Ltd. acquired the Pogo Mine, the Perth-based miner believed it could apply its underground mining experience in Australia to increasing high-grade gold resource and... — Updated 2/22/2019 Full story

IDM Mining Ltd. Jan. 6 reported high-grade gold-silver was encountered during the 2018 trenching of the Randell Vein in the Lost Valley area of its Red Mountain property near Stewart, British... — Updated 2/15/2019 Full story

Northern Star Resources Ltd. Jan. 23 reported that it produced 59,219 ounces of gold at Pogo during the Australian company's first three months of ownership of the underground Alaska mine. Since taki... — Updated 2/8/2019 Full story

Through a combination of management cutting deals at the negotiating table and drills cutting gold-silver across an expanding property in British Columbia's Golden Triangle, Ascot Resources Ltd. has... — Updated 12/14/2018 Full story

Members of the Kaminak Gold Corp. executive team have reunited to form Tectonic Metals Corp., a private exploration company that has acquired three overlooked gold exploration properties in Alaska's... — Updated 11/23/2018 Full story

Ascot Resources Ltd. Oct. 29 announced it has completed the acquisition of Silver Coin, an advanced stage, gold-silver property immediately adjacent to Ascot's Big Missouri project and five... — Updated 11/2/2018 Full story

As Alaska's mining industry nears the end of another hectic year during which metals prices and investor sentiments rose and fell as precipitously as the world's major stock exchanges, the industry... — Updated 11/9/2018 Full story

Kutcho Copper Corp. entered British Columbia's minerals exploration scene in 2017 and is already considering the feasibility of developing a mine in the province's northern reaches. Under its former... — Updated 11/1/2018 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 Mexico and one in... — Updated 11/23/2018 Full story

Northern Star Resources Ltd. cut a deal in August to acquire full ownership of the Pogo gold mine in Alaska, the Perth-based mid-tier gold producer's first operation outside of Australia. The Aussie... — Updated 11/1/2018 Full story

Thanks to its own rich mineral endowment, Australia is a juggernaut in the world of mining, especially across the Southern Hemisphere. Over the past couple of years, however, a growing number of... — Updated 3/1/2019 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 million invested... — Updated 3/1/2019 Full story

In 1918, the Premier gold mine opened a few miles north of Stewart, a mining town that is the southern gateway to British Columbia's famed Golden Triangle. Over the ensuing 34 years, this... — Updated 3/1/2019 Full story

Less than a month after closing a deal to acquire Pogo, Northern Star Resources Ltd. has published an Australian Joint Ore Reserves Committee- (JORC) compliant resource for this high-grade... — Updated 10/26/2018 Full story

Northern Star Resources Ltd. Oct. 1 announced that it has closed the deal to buy the Pogo gold mine in Interior Alaska. The mid-tier Australian gold producer paid US$260 million to buy this high-grad... — Updated 10/12/2018 Full story

Following a couple of quiet months where Alaska's mining industry focused on its work, the last month has seen an explosion of new info come out regarding that effort, some of it profound in its... — Updated 10/5/2018

Northern Star Resources Ltd. Sept. 3 raised AU$175 million to help fund its acquisition of the Pogo gold mine in Alaska. In a deal announced on Aug. 30, the Australia-based miner has agreed to pay... — Updated 9/14/2018 Full story

Australian gold miner Northern Star Resources Ltd. is adding the Pogo Mine in Alaska to its growing portfolio of low-cost, high-grade underground gold mines. In a deal announced on Aug. 30, the... — Updated 9/7/2018 Full story

The Fort Knox Mine will continue churning out gold until at least 2030, thanks to Kinross Gold Corp.'s decision to move ahead with the development of Gilmore, an expansion project immediately west... — Updated 6/22/2018 Full story

Ascot Resources Ltd. April 19 said a 45,000-meter drill program is now underway at Premier-Dilworth, which blankets more than 100 square kilometers (38.6 square miles) of gold, silver and base... — Updated 6/30/2018

Kutcho Copper Corp. Feb. 14 announced the resumption of environmental baseline studies at the Kutcho copper project in northern British Columbia. The program will continue with and confirm the... — Updated 2/23/2018