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  • Fraser Institute Survey of Mining Companies 2018 Alaska BC Yukon NWT Nunavut

    AK, Canada's North shine in mining survey

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Sep 25, 2020

    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 Companies 2018. This report asks industry professionals from around the globe to score mining jurisdictions based on their mineral endowment and various policy topics important to mining. "The mining survey-now in its 21st year-is the most comprehensive report card on government...

  • Avalon Development Curt Freeman Alaska Mining overview November 2018

    Mining risks change often, dramatically

    Curt Freeman, Special to Mining News|Updated Sep 25, 2020

    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 is naturally looking into its crystal ball trying to anticipate what the new year will bring. EY Global Mining and Metals does this sort of forecasting by putting out an annual "risk radar" for mining and metals. The idea is to find out what the industry perceives as the top ten...

  • Australian gold exploration company investigates Southwest Alaska

    Riversgold expands SW Alaska gold, land

    Updated Sep 25, 2020

    Riversgold Ltd. Oct. 8 reported that it has staked a block of new state mining claims to cover high-grade gold the Australian exploration company has identified between its Quicksilver and Gemuk Mountain gold targets in Southwest Alaska. Known as Midway, this new property covers a section of the North Fork Fault immediately northeast of the company's Luna-Quicksilver property. Reconnaissance mapping and prospecting carried out this summer identified numerous outcropping...

  • Australian junior exploring Kuskokwim Mineral Belt near Donlin Gold

    Explosion of mining activity in Alaska

    Curt Freeman, Special to Mining News|Updated Sep 25, 2020

    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 potential immediate, near-term and long-term implications. For example, one of Alaska's largest mines was sold to a new owner at a surprisingly low cost per ounce. The results of a robust new preliminary economic analysis were tabled by an advanced gold-silver exploration project...

  • John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act rare earth element magnets

    Strategic metals ban rallies explorers

    Curt Freeman, Special to Mining News|Updated Sep 25, 2020

    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 wondering out loud how they were going to produce rare earth element, tungsten, tantalum and molybdenum in the near future. Why these metals and why the worry now? Because one of the many impacts the Defense Authorization Act will have on the U.S. economy is its ban on the U.S. Department of...

  • Australia mineral exploration company gold Southwest Alaska

    Riversgold drills first holes into Luna

    Updated Sep 25, 2020

    Riversgold Ltd. Aug. 22 announced the start of a 1,000-meter drill program testing the highest priority targets identified so far on its gold exploration properties in Southwest Alaska. Perth, Australia-based Riversgold owns three gold exploration properties – Luna-Quicksilver, Kisa and Gemuk – that blanket 27,122 acres of the Kuskokwim Mountains about 95 miles southwest of the 39-million-ounce Donlin Gold Mine project. Apart from Kisa, the company said none of the pro...

  • World-class gold mine development Yukon Kuskokwim region Alaksa

    Dead cat bounce for Alaska mining?

    Curt Freeman, Special to Mining News|Updated Sep 25, 2020

    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 year is now looking more like a dead-cat bounce – a minor recovery after a long down trend. This is particularly true of the exploration sector. Reviewing the Alaska minerals industry, you will note that several exploration projects are only now commencing their 2018 exploration p...

  • Luna Quicksilver, Kisa and Gemuk Mountain

    Riversgold explores Southwest Alaska gold

    Updated Sep 25, 2020

    Riversgold Ltd. July 9 said it has begun a seven-week exploration program that is expected to include drilling at several targets on its gold properties in Southwest Alaska. A Perth-based mineral exploration company that listed on the Australia Stock Exchange late in 2017, Riversgold owns three gold exploration properties – Luna-Quicksilver, Kisa and Gemuk – that blanket 27,122 acres of the Kuskokwim Mountains about 95 miles southwest of the 39-million-ounce Donlin Gold Min...

  • Australian mineral exploration companies in Alaska Curt Freeman

    Alaska mineral exploration tops $100M

    Curt Freeman, Special to Mining News|Updated Sep 25, 2020

    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 targets range from grassroots to mine-site, focused on commodities including gold, silver, lead, zinc, copper, cobalt and graphite. For Alaska's exploration industry, planned, announced and estimated expenditures are well over the $100 million mark for 2018. This expenditure level is well...

  • Southwest Alaska gold exploration project Kuskokim Mountains Luna Quicksilver

    Perth explorer to drill SW Alaska targets

    Updated Sep 25, 2020

    Riversgold Ltd. June 6 reported that it plans to complete 1,000 meters of drilling on its Southwest Alaska gold properties. A Perth-based mineral exploration company that listed on the Australia Stock Exchange late in 2017, Riversgold owns three gold exploration properties – Luna-Quicksilver, Kisa and Gemuk – that blanket 27,122 acres of the Kuskokwim Mountains about 120 miles southwest of the Donlin Gold project. These properties lie at the southwest end of the Tintina Gold B...

  • Zinc exploration Red Dog District, Teck Resources Solitario partnership

    Stiff competition for exploration services

    Curt Freeman, Special to Mining News|Updated Sep 25, 2020

    An early spring coupled with low snow fall in many parts of Alaska have combined to enable companies large and small to start their summer field programs early this year. As expected, competition is stiff for people, drills, helicopters, heavy equipment and related services, awarding those who committed budgets early and penalizing those who did not or could not commit early. For the first time in half a decade, projects with money at hand may not be able to get the services t...

  • Map of Riversgold Luna gold exploration project Southwest Alaska

    Riversgold prepares to explore SW Alaska

    Updated Sep 24, 2020

    Riversgold Ltd. April 18 said it is putting together plans to accelerate drilling at gold properties in Southwest Alaska and Australia in the coming months. "We have been working behind the scenes on advancing a number of our projects in WA (Western Australia) and South Australia, whilst also preparing ourselves for the upcoming Alaskan field season," said Allan Kelly, managing director, Riversgold. "We have also picked up some fantastic new projects in WA and Alaska and look...

  • Australian explorer adds AK gold property

    Updated Sep 24, 2020

    Riversgold Ltd. Feb. 1 announced that it has staked 52 state mining claims over the Gemuk Mountain gold prospect in the Kuskokwim Mountains of Southwest Alaska. These newly staked claims are along strike from the newly-formed Australia-based company’s Luna-Quicksilver gold project. Gemuk is near the intersection of the Denali-Farewell Fault, one of the major bounding structures of the Tintina Gold Belt, and North Fork Fault, a district-scale structure. The gold potential was first recognized at Gemuk during a district-wide s...

  • Perth based underground gold miner Northern Star buys Alaska mine Pogo

    Aussie miners look north to land of giants

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Mar 1, 2019

    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 Aussie mining companies are looking north to Alaska, another minerals-rich land way north of the Equator. At least four Aussie juniors – White Rock Minerals Ltd., PolarX Ltd., Nova Minerals Ltd. and Riversgold Ltd. – and three Australia-based metals producers – South32 Ltd., North...

  • Mining Explorers 2018 Alaska mining and mineral exploration

    Alaska exploration trends north ... slowly

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Mar 1, 2019

    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 last year and nearly double the US$58 million spent at the bottom of the market in 2015. "Canadian and Australian companies continue to be the source for the bulk of funds spent in Alaska in 2018, together comprising well over 80 percent of the exploration expenditures earmarked...

  • Luna Quicksilver Kisa Gemuk gold exploration Kuskokwim Gold Belt Alaska

    ME2018: Riversgold Ltd.

    Updated Nov 1, 2018

    When Riversgold Ltd. listed on the Australia Stock Exchange late in 2017, the Perth-based gold exploration and development company held the Southwest Alaska project among its assets, a property that is very familiar to Allan Kelly, director of the company. "I have personally been involved with these projects since 1997, when I was part of the team that discovered outcropping high-grade gold mineralization at Quicksilver," he said. Luna-Quicksilver is among three gold...