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Tectonic Metals Inc. Nov. 12 announced that its 26-hole rotary air blast drill program at Seventymile has confirmed the company's geological model for this eastern Alaska gold exploration property... — Updated 11/19/2020

Tectonic Metals Inc. Sept. 14 reported strong gold intercepts from drilling at Lower Trench, a discovery zone about 1,500 meters northwest of the Michigan zone on the Tibbs project in Alaska's... — Updated 11/12/2020

Tectonic Metals Inc. Oct. 26 reported that soils sampling has identified numerous drill-ready gold exploration targets that are strikingly similar to the deposits being mine at Northern Star... — Updated 11/5/2020

Kinross Gold Corp.'s new long-term strategy for its Fort Knox Mine is a paradigm shift for mineral exploration companies with gold projects on or near the road system within a 300-mile-radius of... — Updated 10/29/2020 Full story

Doyon Ltd. is seeing a resurgence of mineral exploration on its lands across Interior Alaska, especially on gold properties held by the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act regional corporation.... — Updated 9/26/2020 Full story

Tectonic Metals Inc. Sept. 14 reported additional high-grade gold intercepts from drilling at the Michigan zone on the company's Tibbs project in Alaska's Goodpaster Mining District. This year's... — Updated 9/26/2020

Tectonic Metals Inc. has cut a deal with Doyon Ltd. that significantly expands its gold exploration properties in Alaska's Goodpaster Mining District and strengthens its mutually beneficial partners... — Updated 9/26/2020

Tectonic Metals Inc. June 25 announced that it has added a new gold property in the Goodpaster Mining District and acquired a dataset that will assist the company's exploration across this... — Updated 9/26/2020

Tectonic Metals Inc. June 2 announced plans to raise an additional C$3 million to fund 2020 drill programs on two of its Alaska properties – Tibbs and Seventymile. In April, Doyon Ltd. invested... — Updated 9/26/2020

In an unprecedented deal that offers a bit of good news for gold exploration in Alaska, Doyon Ltd. has invested US$1.5 million (C$2.1 million) to acquire a 16.1% strategic ownership of Tectonic Meta... — Updated 9/26/2020

In November 1996, a little over 23 years ago, I began writing quarterly mining news summaries for the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG). Shortly after that, I began writing monthly summaries for... — Updated 9/26/2020 Full story

Tectonic Metals Inc. Dec. 19 reported that its late season rotary air blast (RAB) drill program at the Northway project in eastern Alaska tapped porphyry-style mineralization in both target areas... — Updated 9/26/2020

As the year winds down, mineral industry evaluations for 2019 are being published at a rapid rate. One of the most interesting such global reviews is EY Global Mining and Metals' annual "risk... — Updated 9/26/2020 Full story

Investors looking for mineral exploration companies boasting a team with a proven track record and gold properties in safe and mineral-rich jurisdictions have a new choice with the Tectonic Metals... — Updated 9/26/2020

Ascot Resources Ltd. Sept. 24 said it has completed its roughly 44,000 meters of resources expansion and upgrade drilling at the Big Missouri, Silver Coin and Premier deposit areas and has begun gra... — Updated 9/26/2020

In the famous words of Sherlock Holmes, the game is afoot! After seasonally slower news from Alaska's mining industry in March and April, the dam has broken with over two dozen Alaska mining... — Updated 9/25/2020 Full story

With at least five companies investing heavily in securing ground, acquiring royalties and drilling at and around the Pogo Mine, Goodpaster Mining District has emerged as the hottest destination for... — Updated 9/25/2020

Tectonic Metals Inc. plans to leverage Alaska's underexplored gold potential to create "the number one mineral exploration company in the world." While this is a lofty goal, Tectonic Metals is led b... — Updated 9/25/2020

When it comes to mineral exploration incentives, currency exchange and infrastructure, Alaska is at a disadvantage in the realm of attracting exploration investments from Canada and Australia,... — Updated 8/14/2020 Full story

Whether it be precious metals such as gold and silver, base metals like copper and zinc, or battery metals like nickel and cobalt, northern British Columbia is rich in the type of metal deposits... — Updated 8/14/2020 Full story

The Goodpaster Mining District in Interior Alaska adds credence to the sourdough mining adage "gold is where you find it." Unlike the 8.3 million ounces of placer gold recovered from the Fairbanks... — Updated 8/14/2020 Full story

In order to focus on its flagship Palmer project in Southeast Alaska and to realize greater value from its portfolio of gold properties, Constantine Metal Resources Ltd. spun its gold assets into a... — Updated 8/14/2020 Full story

Emerging on Alaska's exploration scene in 2018, Tectonic Metals Inc. is a new junior mining company that applies a business-first strategy to managing the risks inherent to advancing grassroots... — Updated 8/14/2020 Full story

Tectonic Metals Inc. July 20 announced that drills are turning on its Tibbs Gold project less than 22 miles (35 kilometers) from Northern Star Resources Ltd.'s high-grade Pogo Gold Mine in Alaska's... — Updated 8/6/2020

A vital ingredient in stainless steel and superalloys, chromium is considered by the United States Geological Survey as "one of the nation's most important strategic and critical materials."... — Updated 6/22/2020 Full story