(76) stories found containing 'Tectonic Metals'
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Ascot drills Premier electrum prospect
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
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The 2019 mining game is afoot in Alaska
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
Goodpaster gold exploration rush is on
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 has big 2019 plans for Alaska
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
Doyon's vast Tintina Gold Belt potential
With 12.5 million acres of land spanning Alaska's Interior, Doyon Ltd. is the largest private landholder in the state and one of the largest in the nation. For mining and mineral exploration... — Updated 9/25/2020 Full story
Kaminak 2.0 explores Alaska gold potential
Members of the Kaminak Gold Corp. executive team have reunited to form Tectonic Metals Corp., a private exploration company that has acquired three overlooked gold exploration properties in... — Updated 9/25/2020
Critical Minerals Alaska – Chromite
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 9/25/2020
Constantine unlocks gold, advances Palmer
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
A Tectonic shift for gold exploration
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
No viable substitute for critical chromium
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
Mining Explorers 2018: 10 years of telling the North's mineral exploration story
Welcome to the 10th anniversary of Mining Explorers! While there have been tectonic shifts in the mineral exploration markets over the past decade, two things have remained rock solid – mining e... — Updated 5/31/2019 Full story
Drills turn on AP
First Quantum Minerals Ltd. has agreed to invest US$2 million on a drill program aimed at further investigating the potential of Millrock Resources Inc.'s highly-prospective copper-gold project in... — Updated 7/19/2015
First Quantum eyes SW copper potential
Since buying out its mining rival Inmet Mining Corp. in early 2013, First Quantum Minerals Ltd. has shown a keen interest in Alaska's copper potential. With seven mines in operation and five... — Updated 12/21/2014
Minerals critical to restoring luster
Mining, by definition, is an environmentally invasive practice of digging holes in the earth to extract the minerals found therein. This reality, coupled with a historical legacy of leaving... — Updated 12/30/2012 Full story
Attendance dips at 2012 Dawson Rocks
DAWSON, Yukon - The 3rd Annual Dawson Rocks conference, an annual exposition for active mineral exploration projects in Yukon Territory, offered a sobering reminder of the power of the markets in the world of mining. Absent were the scores of... — Updated 8/26/2012
Geologists brave Canada's last frontier
David Mate, chief geologist for the Canada Nunavut Geoscience Office, is part of a team of scientists venturing this field season into relatively unknown territory. Mate refers to the Hall Peninsula where he will be working this summer as "white... — Updated 4/29/2012
Diamonds may be more than pipedreams
Droves of exploration companies have rushed to Yukon Territory in recent years to hunt for sizable deposits of gold, silver, copper, rare earth elements and base metals. Employing the most advanced geophysical and geochemical techniques available,... — Updated 11/20/2011
Mining Explorers 2011: Explorers seek mega-deposits
Frontrunners in the Yukon mineral exploration rush in 2011 spent more than C$12 million each, with at least one company pouring C$25 million into its program. These companies include Atac Resources Ltd., Kaminak Gold Corp., Capstone Mining Corp.,... — Updated 11/6/2011 Full story
Trickle of newcomers join explorer rush
As gold prices soared in 2011 along with demand for silver and base metals, droves of mineral explorers fanned out across remote areas of Yukon Territory, seeking lucrative hardrock deposits. Lured by news of recent gold discoveries in the White... — Updated 9/25/2011 Full story
2010 Mining Explorers: Explorers trek to Last Frontier
The Last Frontier, as Alaska has long been labeled, is as applicable a moniker today as it was to prospectors who ventured to the territory at the end of the 19th century. Alaska is considered one... — Updated 10/31/2010
A little gold might be a good idea
As we near the end of September and the metals market remains robust, the mining industry is breathing a sigh of relief as we remember the market meltdown of early September 2008. Although nobody... — Updated 9/26/2010
Junior's shares climb with discoveries
Now that the word is out about Atac Resources Ltd.'s impressive gold discoveries at the Rau Project in central Yukon Territory, the financial market is taking to the early-stage exploration effort with the enthusiasm of a bear in a beehive. Atac... — Updated 9/26/2010
Alaskans make pitch at top mining show
I recently attended the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada convention in Toronto where a buoyant, project-hungry crowd of 22,000 created enough of its own hot air to start the... — Updated 3/28/2010 Full story
Terrane wreck lures explorers to Alaska
Geologically, Alaska is a terrane wreck, with multiple tectonic plates dumping their mineral payloads over the landscape. Geologists are still sifting through the wreckage in many places across the... — Updated 2/28/2010
Bokan Mountain may be strategic deposit
Advances in high technology, especially the recent drive to produce increasingly efficient hybrid automobiles, is spurring demand for rare earth elements and energizing a little-known mining sector with at least one known Alaska mineral deposit.... — Updated 6/28/2009
