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

Early this summer, Blue Star Gold Corp. launched an exploration program, hoping to identify favorable prospects and advance targets on its landholdings in western Nunavut to drill-ready status for... — Updated 9/14/2023

Sixty North Gold Mining Ltd. reported July 11 that crews moved onto its Mon Gold property in late June and began mapping and sampling a recent nickel and cobalt discovery situated about a mile (1.5... — Updated 8/11/2022

Cans, cups, roofs, and foil hats are likely the first things that come to mind when thinking about tin – none of which conjure images of a metal that should be considered critical to a modern countr... — Updated 1/14/2021

Primarily associated with cans, cups and roofs, tin may not be the flashiest metal on the market, but it has been a strategic metal that has defined human progress since the onset of the Bronze Age... — Updated 9/24/2020

With more than 100 known tin occurrences, Alaska is considered the best place in America to establish a domestic source of this critical alloy metal that has defined human progress since the dawn... — Updated 6/22/2020

The owners of Alaska’s five large metal mines – Sumitomo Metal Mining Pogo, Hecla Mining Company, Kinross Gold Corp, Teck Resources Ltd. and Coeur Mining Inc. – accounted for nearly half the US$92 m... — Updated 1/28/2018

Strongbow Exploration Inc. March 7 said it has reached an agreement to purchase Teck Resources Ltd. royalty interest in the Mactung and Cantung tungsten projects located along the border between... — Updated 3/13/2016

Strongbow Exploration Inc. Sept. 1 reported that Richard Williams has been appointed president and CEO of the company, replacing Kenneth Armstrong who stepped down from the position. Armstrong will... — Updated 9/6/2015

Strongbow Exploration Inc. July 24 said it has closed its acquisition of the Sleitat and Coal Creek tin properties in Alaska as well as a C$1 million non-brokered private placement financing. Strong... — Updated 8/2/2015

Over the past month Alaska's mining industry has suffered a perfect storm of manmade and natural issues that read like something from a pulp fiction novel. On the man-made side of the ledger, gold,... — Updated 7/26/2015

Strongbow Exploration Inc. June 22 reported that it has finalized the terms of its acquisition of the Sleitat and Coal Creek tin properties in Alaska. The transaction will involve Strongbow buying... — Updated 6/28/2015

The state of the world's exploration industry was recently summarized in SNL Metal & Mining's annual "World Exploration Trends" publication, released at the Prospectors and Developers Association... — Updated 3/29/2015

Slipping metals prices and investors' ongoing reluctance to risk venture capital in the junior mining sector is hitting Alaska's mineral exploration sector hard; and the Far North state is not the... — Updated 3/29/2015

Primarily associated with cans, cups and roofs, tin is not the flashiest metal on the market. Despite its lowly ranking, even among base metals, this lackluster commodity fetches around US$8.00 per... — Updated 3/22/2015

Strongbow Exploration Inc. March 10 said it has agreed to acquire a 100 percent interest in the Sleitat and Coal Creek tin properties in Alaska through the purchase of Thor Gold Alaska Inc., a... — Updated 3/15/2015