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Junior posts promising results for Ulu
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
Junior explores nickel, cobalt showing
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
Tin is the glue for the tech revolution
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 coun... — Updated 1/14/2021 Full story
Critical Minerals Alaska – Tin
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
Tin – Alaska's gateway critical mineral
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 Full story
Mining Explorers 2015: Majors carry Alaska exploration
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 U... — Updated 1/28/2018 Full story
Strongbow cuts deal to buy Mactung, Cantung royalties
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 Full story
New leadership for Alaska tin explorer
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 Full story
Strongbow closes Alaska tin projects buy
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
Perfect storm plagues Alaska mining
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 refines Alaska tin project deal
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
Exploration expenditures drop in 2014
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 Full story
Fighting headwinds
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 Full story
Cassiterite a deal
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 agrees to buy tin claims
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
Mining Explorers 2009: Economy dims North star in 2009
Hampered by a recession-driven drought in capital markets, mineral explorers in the Northwest Territories met the challenges of 2009 with a variety of survival strategies. With significant diamond, precious and base metal projects and prospects at... — Updated 11/1/2009
Mining Explorers 2009: North Arrow Minerals Inc.
TSXV: NAR Chairman, President and CEO: D. Grenville Thomas Vice President Exploration: Gordon Clarke North Arrow Minerals Inc., organized in February 2007 by Strongbow Exploration Inc., is a northern-focused exploration company with a diversified... — Updated 11/1/2009
Mineral Roundup in the Northwest Territories
The Northwest Territories has four operating mines: three diamond producers and one long-running tungsten operation. Exploration and development activity was brisk in 2008 with the most advanced projects located in the Slave Province. Here's a... — Updated 3/29/2009 Full story
NWT uranium exploration plan rejected
The mining industry is concerned about its future in Canada's Northwest Territories in the wake of the Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board's decision in May to recommend against a uranium exploration project that was proposed by Mano... — Updated 7/29/2007 Full story
Diamonds can be a territory's best friend
A mention of the world's richest diamond mines conjures images of hot, steamy African jungles. Yet it is the frozen tundra of the Canadian Arctic that is yielding the latest treasure trove of diamonds and sparking a staking stampede that is... — Updated 5/22/2005 Full story