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Aims for inaugural drilling of new copper-gold prospect in B.C.'s Golden Triangle later this year. Skeena Resources Ltd. Feb. 8 announced plans for 14,000 meters of drilling on its earlier-staged... — Updated 2/22/2024

Lying just deep enough into the mining frontier that value of its world-class deposits copper, gold, silver, nickel, and other metals has not been fully realized, yet home to the industrial-grade... — Updated 2/20/2024 Full story

With the high-grade Snip gold project fully pulled back into its portfolio, Skeena Resources Ltd. is now considering a mine at Eskay Creek that would process ore from both of the company's historic... — Updated 1/17/2024

Feasibility study details on open-pit mine slated to produce 2.8M oz of gold over first 12 years of mine. A definitive feasibility study for Eskay Creek details the economic and engineering... — Updated 11/24/2023

Skeena Resources Ltd. Sept. 5 announced a 237% increase in the amount of gold in the indicated resource category at its Snip project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Located about 35 kilometer... — Updated 9/7/2023

Skeena Resources Ltd. June 20 announced an upgraded and expanded resource estimate for Eskay Creek that will likely convert into new reserves of gold and silver with an updated feasibility study... — Updated 6/29/2023

Skeena Resources Ltd. May 24 announced that is has raised C$73.5 million (US$53.9 million) to carry out early development activities at its Eskay Creek gold-silver mine project in Northern British C... — Updated 5/25/2023

British Columbia's Golden Triangle is poised for a mining boom that raises the bar when it comes to achieving the higher environmental, social, and guidance expectations for companies that produce... — Updated 3/2/2023

Proposed merger could have major implications for several mining projects in BC's Golden Triangle. Over the weekend, Newcrest Mining Ltd. and Newmont Corp. confirmed rumors of a proposed merger... — Updated 3/2/2023

With the September completion of a feasibility study that details a very economically robust gold-silver mine at Eskay Creek, Skeena Resources Ltd. has focused its drilling on near-surface mineraliz... — Updated 1/18/2023

Working with First Nations is key to unlocking the Golden Triangle's vast potential. A world-class copper-gold district that is also enriched with nickel, cobalt, platinum group metals, and other... — Updated 1/18/2023 Full story

Eskay Mining Corp. Dec. 15 reported that its 2022 drilling has expanded the TV-Jeff volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits on its namesake gold-silver project in Northern British Columbia. Covering a... — Updated 12/15/2022

Skeena Resources Ltd. Dec. 6 announced that two holes have tapped gold-silver mineralization below the proposed 22 Zone open pit at the Eskay Creek mine project in British Columbia's Golden... — Updated 12/8/2022

Skeena Resources Ltd. Nov. 22 announced that drilling has discovered a new area of near-surface gold-silver mineralization about 200 meters east of 22 Zone, indicating the larger exploration... — Updated 12/1/2022

Drilling continues to expand gold mineralization SW of proposed pit. Skeena Resources Ltd. Nov. 17 announced that drilling continues to cut strong gold mineralization in an area previously... — Updated 11/17/2022

Skeena Resources Ltd. Nov. 8 reported that its 2022 drilling has cut high-grade gold-silver mineralization to the south of and below the Eskay Creek open pit mine detailed in a feasibility study... — Updated 11/10/2022

Skeena Resources Ltd. Oct. 25 reported that drilling continues to cut thick intervals of gold-silver mineralization at expansion zones off the side of the proposed open-pit mine on the company's... — Updated 11/3/2022

A feasibility study for developing a mine at Skeena Resources Ltd.'s Eskay Creek has confirmed that developing an open pit mine at this historic gold-silver project in British Columbia's Golden... — Updated 9/22/2022

Garibaldi Resources Corp. reported that hole EL-22-97b intersected nickel-bearing disseminated and semi-massive sulfide mineralization 205 meters down-trend of the previous deepest mineralized... — Updated 9/22/2022

Drills tap gold-silver in former waste rock of proposed pit Skeena Resources Ltd. Sept. 6 announced the first batch of assay results from a 2022 drill program focused largely on supplementing the... — Updated 9/8/2022

Unlike the European prospectors seeking the gold, silver, copper, and the New World's wealth of other metals, oftentimes First Nations, Native Americans, and Indigenous peoples throughout North... — Updated 9/3/2022

Tahltan Central Government, Skeena Resources Ltd., and British Columbia have signed a landmark agreement that reshapes the mine permitting process in Tahltan Territory, the province, and... — Updated 6/16/2022

Eskay Mining Corp. June 1 launched a 30,000-meter drill program at the company's Consolidated Eskay gold-silver project in Northern British Columbia. "2022 brings the most aggressive drill campaign... — Updated 6/9/2022

While Golden Triangle is an apt and easily marketable moniker for northwest British Columbia's incredible mineral endowment, Tahltan Territory more accurately and thoroughly encapsulates the rich... — Updated 5/5/2022

Tahltan Central Government says Newmont Corp.'s plans to turn over properties to the Tahltan Nation for land use planning does not address all the concerns its people have about the gold mining... — Updated 4/14/2022