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Mine leaders deliver good news to Juneau
With rising metals prices helping to bolster the state's mining sector, Alaska mine leaders had good news to deliver to Alaska Senate and House resource committees during a Feb. 13 trip to Juneau.... — Updated 2/22/2018 Full story
Mining Explorers 2016: Peak Gold accelerates into 2016
While many of Alaska's mining explorers were riding the brakes on their promising projects going into 2016, Royal Gold and Contango Ore put their figurative foot to the accelerator at the... — Updated 2/3/2018
China rules REE prices
What does Molycorp Inc.'s bankruptcy have to do with the price of rare earths in China? Some analysts say everything, while other experts in the field point to other weaknesses as the root cause of... — Updated 2/1/2018
2017 mine values flat
According to the United States Geological Survey’s annual report, “Mineral Commodity Summaries 2017,” the value of non-fuel minerals produced in the United States and Alaska during 2016 remained at... — Updated 1/19/2018
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
AK mines top $3B
Galvanized by higher zinc prices and strong production at Teck Resources Ltd.'s Red Dog Mine, the value of Alaska's mineral production topped US$3 billion for the fifth year running. Larry Freeman,... — Updated 2/22/2015
Royal Gold agrees to invest in Tetlin
Two companies that trace their roots to the oil and gas sector have agreed to form an alliance to continue exploration at the Tetlin gold-copper-silver property in Alaska's eastern Interior. In earl... — Updated 10/26/2014
Contango ORE courts buyers for Tetlin
Contango ORE Inc. co-founder Brad Juneau ventured to Alaska seeking natural gas; today, his Texas-based company is sitting on a gold-copper-silver deposit at its Tetlin project with an initial 1.1... — Updated 2/23/2014 Full story
AMA sets tenor of fundraising season
The Alaska Miners Association's annual convention marks the changing of seasons for junior exploration companies with mineral projects in Alaska. As a blanket of snow hides outcropping rocks and the water needed for drilling crystalizes,... — Updated 11/24/2013 Full story
Mining Explorers 2013: Unique explorer, distinct deposit
Led by a petroleum engineer with a 25-year history in the oil and gas industry, Contango ORE Inc., known as Core, may be the most unconventional mineral exploration company working in Alaska. Yet,... — Updated 11/3/2013
Junior clears hurdles at Prairie Creek
Canadian Zinc Corp. in recent weeks has reported significant progress in wading through the final regulatory and financial obstacles that could potentially bar its path to bringing the Prairie Creek Mine Project into production. Prairie Creek Mine... — Updated 7/28/2013
Unique explorer, distinct mineralization
With a marketing campaign seemingly designed to send investors and their money running, Contango ORE Inc., also known as Core, may be the most unconventional mineral exploration company working in... — Updated 5/26/2013
Deafening silence arises from explorers
Following a rising chorus of junior companies touting impressive exploration programs on mineral prospects across Alaska that reached its crescendo in 2011, a deafening silence is resonating across... — Updated 5/26/2013
Wildcat hole hits high-grade gold-copper
Lacking the fanfare emblematic of an explorer hot on the trail of a high tenor gold-copper-silver deposit, Contango Ore Inc. recently posted results from its Tetlin project that include a... — Updated 1/27/2013 Full story
Territory sees spurt in mining activity
A challenging economic climate in 2012 failed to impede growth in mining activity in Northwest Territories. As miners struggled to fund their work programs, numerous companies managed to plow ahead in the wake of regulatory improvements, advancing... — Updated 12/30/2012
Mining Explorers 2012: CORE eyes Interior Alaska gold
With its sights set on gold, Contango Ore Inc. raised US$8.8 million in March to fund a US$6.75 million exploration program on its Alaska projects during the 2012 field season - the bulk of which... — Updated 11/11/2012 Full story
Mining Explorers 2012: Explorers flock to Far North
Companies chasing mineral riches in Nunavut in 2012 are expected to meet and surpass the brisk pace of exploration set a year earlier. But the race to discover major deposits of precious and base metals, along with uranium, diamonds and other commo... — Updated 11/11/2012
Alaska geologists unearth rare earths
Putting Alaska on the map as a domestic source of rare earth elements and other strategic and critical minerals is a priority of Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell. During the 2012 budget cycle, Alaska... — Updated 7/29/2012
CORE bets on Tetlin gold-copper project
With its sights set on gold, Contango ORE Inc. is conducting an aggressive exploration campaign on its Tetlin property in Interior Alaska during the 2012 field season. The Houston, Texas-based explo... — Updated 4/29/2012
Explorers return to Alaska Peninsula
Stretching some 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) off Southwest Alaska into the Pacific Ocean, the Alaska Peninsula and trailing Aleutian Islands host among the oldest gold discoveries ever made in Ala... — Updated 11/20/2011
2010 Mining Explorers: Territory ranks fourth in investment
Government and industry officials agree that mining exploration and development in recent years have brought substantial positive change to Nunavut, Canada's newest and least explored territory. Ongoing and new exploration, however, are rapidly adv... — Updated 10/31/2010
Road to Nome tops commission wish list
The expansion of North America's infrastructure ended about 500 miles short of reaching the westernmost shores of the United States, leaving more than 350,000 square miles of Alaska without surface... — Updated 4/25/2010 Full story
Remote territory offers mineral bonanza
No discussion of opening Canada's Far North to mineral resource development could get far without the focus turning to Nunavut, the nation's newest and least-explored territory. At one-fifth the size of Canada, Nunavut contains 1,994,000 million... — Updated 3/28/2010
Victors may be 'the biggest losers'
Although there are innumerable differences between any point in the past and the present, modern political activists of all political stripes routinely draw on one half-recalled and poorly understood event or another from the past to "prove" a poin... — Updated 11/22/2009
Mining Explorers 2009: Discovering Nunavut: 10 years of growth and opportunities ahead
Nunavut was created on April 1, 1999. The new territory and the public government, in which I am proud to be the Minister of Mines, was created as part of the largest aboriginal land claims settlement in Canadian history. The signing of the... — Updated 11/1/2009 Full story
