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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... — Updated 11/30/2018 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 million... — Updated 11/30/2018 Full story

WESTERN ALASKA Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. announced that it had finalized a surface right of way agreement with Alaska Peninsula Corporation for use of that latter's lands for the... — Updated 12/7/2018 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. 19 said strong assay results from soil and rock‐chip sampling demonstrate the potential for a significant gold‐copper discovery at the Mars prospect on its Alaska Range... — 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 pit mine... — 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 project, clearly... — Updated 11/16/2018

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... — Updated 11/9/2018 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... — Updated 11/23/2018 Full story

PolarX Ltd. Sept. 25 said drilling is beginning to outline a thick zone of shallow, high-grade gold-copper-silver mineralization about 850 meters east of the Zackly skarn deposit that show... — Updated 10/5/2018

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... — Updated 10/5/2018

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 Range Project.... — Updated 9/28/2018 Full story

Underscoring the interconnected nature of the global mining market, not 48 hours after the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act was signed into law, the mining industry began... — Updated 9/7/2018 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 Project. The... — Updated 9/7/2018 Full story

PolarX Ltd. Aug. 21 announced that assay results confirm that drilling has tapped copper and gold well below the currently outlined Zackly skarn deposit at the Australian explorer's Alaska... — Updated 8/31/2018

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 the current... — Updated 8/24/2018

PolarX Ltd. July 24 reported that drilling at its Alaska Range project continues to cut stellar visible copper mineralization beyond the Zackly skarn deposit. A 13-hole drill program carried... — Updated 8/3/2018

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 quarter of the... — 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 drilling... — 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 resource at... — 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 out across... — Updated 7/20/2018 Full story

The summer field season is in full bloom across Alaska with programs stretching from the Brooks Range to southeastern Alaska, and from the Yukon border to southwestern Alaska. Exploration... — Updated 7/6/2018 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. Millrock... — 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 Alaska Range... — Updated 6/8/2018 Full story

Cobalt is an essential ingredient to optimizing the performance of batteries in the growing number of electric vehicles on global highways, yet essentially none of this battery metal is... — Updated 6/22/2018 Full story