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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 inducted into the Alaska Aviation Museum's Hall of Fame for Pathway and Explorer Pilot this year, Ron has lived a life many could not even dream about. Born in Bolton, Ontario, in 1936 – a stone's throw from Toronto – Ron came from a time when aviation was still in its fledgling yea... 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. Home to a past-producing mine that last operated in the 1990s, Premier has all the major infrastructure – mill, assay lab, crusher, tailings storage area, and underground workings – in place to resume operations. A feasibility study completed in 2020 envisions four mines – Silve...
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 outskirts of Stewart, British Columbia. Home to a past-producing mine that last operated in the 1990s, Premier has all the major infrastructure – mill, crushing and grinding circuits, tailings storage area, and hydroelectric grid power access – in place to resume operations. A fea... 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 discoveries that suggest a larger system throughout. The company began its 2021 season at its Porter silver property on Mount Rainey – overlooking Stewart, a town at the southern tip of the Golden Triangle – as sampling discovered new high-grade silver veins from the historic mines. Early 20t... 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 samples on assay labs already severely backlogged by COVID-19 protocols and restrictions that slowed the flow of samples in and data out of these facilities. Just how busy was the 2021 exploration season across the northern half of BC? According to North of 60 Mining News calculations,... 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 within and on the outskirts of this project that has now been expanded to 323 square miles (836 square kilometers). The company's 2021 drill program tested high-grade zinc-lead-silver-gold VMS targets that attracted it to Red Mountain in the first place and the intrusion-related... 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 future. In a 2021 report on the minerals and metals critical to low-carbon energy and transportation, the International Energy Agency estimates that a typical passenger electric vehicle requires six times the mineral inputs of a conventional internal combustion engine car and an onshore... 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 regional corporations. While CIRI has leveraged its urban position with retail developments such as Tikahtnu Commons, an enormous retail and entertainment center on the outskirts of Anchorage, the Southcentral Alaska regional corporation also has oil and gas, renewable energy, and mining... 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 then to global markets that lie beyond, raised the urgency to settle aboriginal land claims in Alaska. This need for a resolution before a pipeline corridor that would bisect the state prompted lawmakers in Washington, D.C. to enact the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, a... 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 Resources Ltd. has been issued the permit needed to begin a new era of mining at its Premier gold project. "This project will be a welcome source of employment for hundreds of people who live in the Northwest," said BC Minister of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation Bruce Ralston....
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 work at Rosy this year has significantly expanded the previously known gold-in-soil anomaly," said ATAC Resources President and CEO Graham Downs. "While Rosy has seen only sporadic historical exploration, with a limited portion of the property covered by geochemical surveys, this wor...
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 323-square-mile (836 square kilometers) Red Mountain property in Alaska. This district-scale property hosts a wide array of base and precious metals deposits and prospects. The most advanced are the Dry Creek and WTF deposits, which host a combined 9.1 million metric tons of Australian...
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 polymetallic volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit on the company's 323-square-mile (836 square kilometers) Red Mountain project in Alaska. Dry Creek and the nearby WTF deposits near the eastern end of the Red Mountain property host 9.1 million metric tons of Australian Joint Ore...
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 to truly appreciate. This, however, is not the case for Bill Ellis, an explorer and geologist who has gifted his knowledge and experience for nearly half a century and personifies the attitude needed to succeed in mineral exploration, optimism. As if by providence, Bill was born in... 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 companies during a recent visit to the Ambler Mining District in Northwest Alaska. "Collaboration begins with trust," he said. "When we work together and develop our state's resources responsibly, we can achieve incredible outcomes for all Alaskans." Having spent nearly two decades as a...
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, hydroelectric, and mineral resources? As stewards of these public lands, we need deliberative and balanced Forest Service consideration of the best use of and access to these resources to protect and sustain Southeast communities and their economic future. The Forest Service needs...
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 Premier gold project near Stewart, British Columbia. Home to a past-producing mine that last operated in the 1990s, Premier has all the major infrastructure – mill, assay lab, crusher, tailings storage area, and underground workings – in place to resume operations. A feasibility stu...
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 the Hunter volcanogenic massive sulfide zinc discovery at the eastern end of this 323-square-mile (836 square kilometers) multimineral project in Alaska. "White Rock has a plethora of exploration opportunities across its contiguous Last Chance-Red Mountain project in central...
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 osmium – are metals that are both precious and critical to the United States and Canada. Extremely rare, durable, and with a brilliance that does not tarnish, platinum and other metals in its group are a treasured choice for high-end jewelry that stands the test of time. Three of the... 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 elements critical to our modern high-tech society – an apparent paradox that speaks to the complexities of these enigmatic metals. The irony of rare earth elements (REEs) begins with their name, which is at the same time a misnomer and accurate descriptor. "All the REEs except p... 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 to find more zinc, silver, and gold mineralization on the outskirts of this now 323-square-mile (836 square kilometers) land package. By late May, White Rock had already begun a more than 10,000-meter drill program that is testing both intrusive-related gold targets at the Last...
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 Frontier's mining industry – from discovery to doré. Following a year in which COVID-19 protocols and travel restrictions made exploring Alaska challenging, especially for companies headquartered half a world away, this impressive investment in Alaska's mining sector demonstrates that Do...
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 Mountain gold-silver projects in the Nisga'a Nation traditional territory in Northern British Columbia. "I am very delighted to represent the Nisga'a Nation in our partnership with Ascot," said Nisga'a Lisims Government President Eva Clayton. "Since the beginning, our relationship has...
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 metric tons (468 million lb) of the galvanizing metal produced at the midway point of 2020. Likewise, the Northwest Alaska mine produced 54,300 metric tons (119.7 million lb) of lead during the first half of 2021, a 21% increase over the 44,800 metric tons (98.8 million lb)...
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 at its Freegold Mountain gold-copper project in the Yukon. "Through a focused review and rebuild of the Freegold Mountain project 3D model, the technical team has digested the entire data-room and designed a comprehensive, multi-tiered exploration program – a process that has a...
