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

Few men and women could attest to having lived with an adventurous spirit and actually having gone and adventured, but this isn't so for mining and aviation pioneer Ronald Sheardown. Soon to be... — Updated 6/15/2023 Full story

Despite project delays and cost overruns, Ascot Resources Ltd. is set to make the final push toward reestablishing a mine at its Premier gold project in British Columbia's famed Golden Triangle.... — Updated 2/10/2022

As it closes in on reestablishing the Premier Mine, Ascot Resources Ltd. is expanding and upgrading resources that would feed ore into the updated mill at this gold-silver operation on the... — Updated 1/26/2022 Full story

Going into 2021, StrikePoint Gold Inc. resumed work at its high-grade gold and silver projects, Willoughby and Porter, in British Columbia's Golden Triangle, resulting in new silver vein... — Updated 1/26/2022 Full story

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

Since first coming to Alaska to explore zinc-rich volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits at Red Mountain, Australia-based White Rock Minerals Ltd. has continually added zinc-silver and gold targets... — Updated 1/26/2022 Full story

While copper may be the new oil of the green energy revolution, a wide variety of industrial minerals and metals found in abundance in Alaska will be needed to build the envisioned low-carbon... — Updated 1/26/2022 Full story

With more than half of Alaska's entire population living within its region, Cook Inlet Region Inc., more commonly known as CIRI, is the most metropolitan of the 12 landholding Alaska Native... — Updated 1/6/2022 Full story

Vast petroleum reserves underlying what is now the Arctic Slope Regional Corp. (ASRC) region, and the need to build a pipeline to deliver this oil to an ice-free port 800 miles to the south and... — Updated 1/6/2022 Full story

Considered a major milestone along the path to new mining jobs and economic opportunities for the Nisga'a Nation and others that live in and around the town of Stewart, British Columbia, Ascot... — Updated 12/29/2021

ATAC Resources Ltd. Dec. 15 reported an update on the grassroots exploration it carried out this year at Rosy, a gold-silver project 77 kilometers (48 miles) east of Whitehorse, Yukon. "Grassroots w... — Updated 12/16/2021

White Rock Minerals Ltd. reported the discovery of high-grade copper and zinc, along with significant silver and gold, in rock samples collected from the Kiwi and Jack Frost targets on its... — Updated 11/11/2021

White Rock Minerals Ltd. Sept. 28 reported that drilling has tapped spectacular zinc grades well outside the resource at Dry Creek, indicating the potential for a substantial expansion of this... — Updated 10/7/2021

Throughout the relatively short modern history of Alaska, many nameless and oft unrecognized explorers have contributed to the Last Frontier state in ways that future generations will never be able... — Updated 9/30/2021 Full story

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy highlighted the importance of cooperation between Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) corporations and their shareholders, state organizations, and mining... — Updated 9/30/2021

Southeast Alaska is at a unique crossroads in its management of the Tongass National Forest. How will reimposition of the 2001 Roadless Rule impact development of natural resources like geothermal,... — Updated 9/23/2021

Ascot Resources Ltd. Sept. 8 announced that the ball and SAG (semi-autogenous grinding) mills have been delivered and are being prepared for installation inside the mill building at the company's... — Updated 9/16/2021

White Rock Minerals Ltd. this week reported that exploration crews have discovered a new gold prospect near the Last Chance target on its Red Mountain project and drills have tapped an extension of... — Updated 9/16/2021

From jewelry at a black-tie soiree to scrubbing harmful emissions from the exhaust system of a farm truck, the six platinum group metals – platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium, and o... — Updated 9/16/2021 Full story

Roughly 38,000 metric tons of rare earth concentrates were produced from American soil during 2020, yet the United States remains 100% reliant on foreign countries for its supply of these 17... — Updated 9/16/2021 Full story

White Rock Minerals Ltd. is carrying out the largest exploration program at Red Mountain, an already district-scale project in Alaska that keeps getting bigger as the Australian explorer continues... — Updated 8/26/2021

Accounting for at least US$100 million invested in mineral exploration and mine development in Alaska during 2021, Australian companies continue to work along the entire breadth of the Last... — Updated 8/26/2021

Ascot Resources Ltd. and Nisga'a Nation have signed a benefits agreement that renews and expands their relationship as Ascot closes in on the start of mine development at its Premier and Red... — Updated 8/26/2021

Teck Resources Ltd. July 28 reported that the Red Dog Mine produced 260,000 metric tons (573.2 million pounds) of zinc during the first six months of 2021, more than a 22% increase over the 212,300... — Updated 8/5/2021

Triumph Gold Corp. June 29 announced the start of a comprehensive exploration program focused on expanding and upgrading resources and developing zones of mineralization outside the deposit areas... — Updated 7/8/2021