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Bill Ellis blazed trail of Alaska discovery
On March 18, 2022, Alaska's mining community lost Bill Ellis, a close friend and geologist that was universally loved for his kind spirit and optimism, traits that will live on as a legacy as solid... — Updated 3/31/2022
Heliostar unlocking Unga gold potential
The product of a 2020 merger between Redstar Gold Corp. and Heliodor Metals Ltd., Heliostar Metals Ltd. is a junior exploration and development company with three gold and silver projects in Mexico... — Updated 1/26/2022
Aleut's Ring of Fire mineral potential
Aleut Corp. is committed to promoting economic opportunities for its more than 4,000 shareholders while preserving the traditional culture and values developed from living in a ruggedly beautiful... — Updated 1/6/2022
Bill Ellis blazes trail of Alaska discovery
Throughout the relatively short modern history of Alaska, many nameless and oft unrecognized explorers have contributed to the Last Frontier state in ways that future generations will never be able... — Updated 9/30/2021
Drills extend Amethyst gold vein at Aquila
Heliostar Metals Ltd. Sept. 20 reported that drilling has further expanded gold mineralization at the Aquila target on the company's Unga project in Southwest Alaska. Aquilla is a zone of... — Updated 9/23/2021
Heliostar tests Unga porphyry potential
Heliostar Metals Ltd. Sept. 16 reported that this year's drilling has tapped broad widths of gold and copper mineralization indicative of a large porphyry zone at the Zachary Bay target on its Unga... — Updated 9/16/2021
Aquila is a priority gold target at Unga
Heliostar Metals Ltd. Sept. 7 reported that this year's drilling has encountered two zones of strong gold mineralization at the Aquila target on its Unga project in Southwest Alaska. A zone of... — Updated 9/13/2021
Heliostar drills high-grade gold at Apollo
Heliostar Metals Ltd. June 16 reported that drills have tapped a high-grade gold vein in the area of the historic Apollo Mine on Unga Island and multiple strong gold intercepts at the adjacent... — Updated 9/7/2021
Drilling underway at Unga gold project
Heliostar Metals Ltd. May 13 announced the start of a 7,000-meter drill program focused on expanding high-grade gold mineralization and testing new targets at its Unga project in Alaska. Covering ro... — Updated 5/27/2021
Forgotten chain of Alaska mining history
After the United States' purchase of Alaska, and before the boom brought on by the Klondike Gold Rush, a small island just off the Alaska Peninsula would have gold-bearing quartz discovered,... — Updated 5/27/2021
Heliostar strikes gold below Sitka Mine
Heliostar Metals Ltd. March 1 announced that its 2020 drilling tapped gold mineralization between the historic Apollo-Sitka Mine on its Unga project in Southwest Alaska. Alaska's first hardrock... — Updated 3/11/2021
Heliostar encounters more Aquila gold
Heliostar Metals Ltd. reported two zones of strong mineralization from the first hole the company drilled into the Aquila target on its Unga project in Southwest Alaska. In November, Heliostar... — Updated 2/25/2021
Drilling expands SH-1 gold zone at Unga
Heliostar Metals Ltd. Feb. 18 reported additional strong gold mineralization from a late-2020 drill program testing resource expansion targets at the SH-1 zone on its Unga project in Southwest... — Updated 2/18/2021
The Alaskan business as old as America
"Less than a year after the formal transfer of Alaska from Russia to the United States, there was formed under California law a corporation named the Alaska Commercial Company. Its home office was... — Updated 1/28/2021
Gold tapped in Unga expansion target
Heliostar Metals Ltd. Jan. 25 reported strong gold mineralization in the first two of nine recently drilled holes focused on the expansion of the SH-1 zone at its Unga project on an island along... — Updated 1/28/2021
Heliostar taps gold in first Aquila hole
Heliostar Metals Ltd. Nov. 23 announced it tapped gold-silver mineralization in the first hole the company has ever drilled at the Aquila target on its Unga project on the Alaska Peninsula.... — Updated 12/4/2020
Heliostar expands Unga exploration team
Heliostar Metals Ltd. (formerly Redstar Gold Corp.) Nov. 5 announced the addition of two new members of its exploration management team. Samuel Anderson, who spent 17 years as a geologist at... — Updated 11/5/2020
Earthquake does not shake Unga drilling
Heliostar Metals Ltd. (formerly Redstar Gold Corp.) said the Oct. 19 magnitude 7.5 earthquake with an epicenter about 45 miles south of Unga Island did not have any major impacts on its gold... — Updated 11/5/2020
Redstar budgets $6M for Unga exploration
Redstar Gold Corp. Sept. 10 announced it is investing C$6 million in an 8,000-meter drilling and exploration program at its Unga gold project in Alaska. This program got underway earlier this month... — Updated 9/26/2020
Redstar raises cash buys Mexico explorer
Redstar Gold Corp. Aug. 24 announced that it has raised C$7 million and finalized the acquisition of Heliodor Metals Ltd., an exploration company with interests in three epithermal gold and silver... — Updated 9/26/2020
Gold targets found at Sitka Mine on Unga
Redstar Gold Corp. April 20 announced that geophysical and geochemical studies completed late last year has identified potential strike extensions of the high-grade gold veins that supplied ore for... — Updated 9/26/2020
High-priority Unga Gold target emerges
Redstar Gold Corp. April 3 said results from geophysical and geochemical surveys carried out late last year has confirmed the prospectivity of Aquila, a high-grade zone at the west end of the Shumag... — Updated 9/26/2020
High grade gold resource outlined at Unga
Redstar Gold Corp. Jan. 10 published a maiden industry-compliant resource for the SH-1 zone, formerly known as the Shumagin zone, on its Unga gold project on the Alaska Peninsula. The Unga project c... — Updated 9/26/2020
Priority Unga gold drill targets found
Redstar Gold Corp. Jan. 13 reported that recently completed structural mapping on its Unga gold project on the Alaska Peninsula has identified several new priority drill targets along the Shumagin... — Updated 9/26/2020
The final entry of Captain Curt's log
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