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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 as the Alaska rocks he explored for the better part of half a century. All of us at North of 60 Mining News were blessed to get to know Bill and wish to send our love and condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues. In honor of Bill's memory, we would like to republish "Bill... Full story
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 and its flagship Unga gold project in Alaska. Covering roughly 93 square miles (240 square kilometers) of the Unga and Popof islands off the southern coast of the Alaska Peninsula, the Unga project hosts the historic Apollo and Sitka mines, which produced roughly 150,000 ounces of... Full story
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 stretch of Alaska. From the community of Sand Point on the Alaska Peninsula to Attu near the western end of 167 named Aleutian Islands extending more than 1,000 miles off Southwest Alaska, the Aleut Corp. region forms a boundary between the Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea. This... Full story
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 to truly appreciate. This, however, is not the case for Bill Ellis, an explorer and geologist who has gifted his knowledge and experience for nearly half a century and personifies the attitude needed to succeed in mineral exploration, optimism. As if by providence, Bill was born in... Full story
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 outcropping epithermal quartz veins at the southwest end of the Shumagin trend, one of two corridors of gold and silver mineralization running across the breadth of Unga Island, discovered by Battle Mountain Gold in the 1980s. Drilling at that time, however, was limited by poor sample...
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 Island gold project in Southwest Alaska. While high-grade gold targets like those historically mined on Unga Island are Heliostar's primary interest, the company is also exploring the value that the bulk tonnage targets on the property have to offer. "High-grade gold is the...
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 outcropping epithermal quartz veins at the southwest end of the Shumagin trend, one of two corridors of gold and silver mineralization running across the breadth of Unga Island, Aquila is one of the four highest priority targets on the project. Aquila was discovered by Battle Mountain...
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 Sitka Mine site. From 1886 to 1922, the historic Apollo Mine produced roughly 130,000 ounces of gold from ore that is estimated to have averaged around 10 grams per metric ton gold. This ore is reported to have been mined from three closely spaced, parallel veins. The Apollo vein...
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 roughly 93 square miles (240 square kilometers) of the Unga and Popof islands off the southern coast of the Alaska Peninsula, the Unga project hosts the historic Apollo and Sitka mines, which produced roughly 150,000 ounces of gold from high-grade epithermal veins from around 1886 to...
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, inevitably booming a small trade hub known as Delarov, or as it came to be known, Unga. As it stretches like a broken bridge from the continent of North America to the continent of Asia, many forget the large chain of islands that occupies an area of 6,821 square miles and extends nearly... Full story
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 gold mines, Apollo and Sitka produced roughly 150,000 oz of gold from high-grade epithermal veins from 1886 until around 1922, when the high-grade gold ore transitioned to more base metals-dominant mineralization. Despite historic exploration shafts demonstrating the vein continued...
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 reported that this hole, AQ20-01, cut 3.6 meters averaging 4.46 grams per metric ton gold and 6.8 g/t silver from a depth of 37.6 meters. Further assay results show this hole tapped more robust mineralization over broader depths further downhole. At 46.6 meters, hole AQ20-01 cut 17.4...
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 Alaska. The Unga project covers roughly 93 square miles (240 square kilometers) of the Unga and Popof islands of the southern coast of the Alaska Peninsula. The Apollo and adjacent Sitka mines, established on Unga Island in 1886, produced roughly 150,000 ounces of gold from high-grade...
"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 in San Francisco, but its activities were to center in Alaska, where it soon became a power in the land. Indeed, at sometimes and places it was the only effective power." This an excerpt from a piece written by Frank H. Sloss in July 1977 for The Pacific Northwest Quarterly titled,... Full story
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 the Alaska Peninsula. The Unga project covers roughly 93 square miles (240 square kilometers) of two islands south of the Alaska Peninsula, Unga and Popof islands, that has long been known for its high-grade gold. The Apollo and adjacent Sitka mines, established on Unga Island in...
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. Situated at the southwest end of the Shumagin trend, one of two corridors of gold and silver mineralization running across the breadth of Unga Island, Aquila was discovered by Battle Mountain Gold in the 1980s. Trenching along the main outcropping vein zone at Aquila is reported to have...
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 Newmont Gold Corp., has been named Heliostar vice president of exploration and is currently leading the company's gold exploration program on Alaska's Unga Island. During his time at Newmont, Anderson held successive positions from exploration project manager to senior manager of...
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 exploration there. The originally planned 6,500- to 8,000-meter drill program, however, has been slowed by a dearth of drillers. "The ramp-up of our drilling program has been slower than planned due to difficulty staffing the three contract rigs at site," said Heliostar Metals CEO Charles...
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 and is expected to extend into late November, the drilling will target four areas of high-grade and bulk mineable gold mineralization. "Commencing drilling at Unga is another significant milestone for Redstar Gold as we complete our transformation into a leading exploration...
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 projects in Mexico, plus C$1.5 million in cash and no debt. As part of the deal, Heliodor founder and President Charles Funk has been named as Redstar's CEO. "Adding Heliodor to the Redstar group of companies will form a leading exploration company with quality high grade precious...
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 the historic Sitka Mine on Unga Island. Redstar's Unga project covers roughly 93 square miles (240 square kilometers) of two islands south of the Alaska Peninsula, Unga and Popof islands, that has long been known for its high-grade gold. Apollo, the first hard rock underground gold...
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 Shumagin trend on the company's Unga Gold project on the Alaska Peninsula. The Shumagin trend hosts the high-grade, SH-1 (formerly Shumagin) zone, a high-grade gold deposit about four miles (6.5 kilometers) northeast of Aquila. According to a calculation completed earlier this year, SH-1...
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 covers roughly 93 square miles (240 square kilometers) of two islands south of the Alaska Peninsula, Unga and Popof, that has long been known for its high-grade gold. The Apollo and adjacent Sitka mines, established on Unga Island in 1886, produced roughly 150,000 ounces of gold from...
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 and Apollo-Sitka trends. The Unga project covers roughly 93 square miles (240 square kilometers) of two islands south of the Alaska Peninsula, Unga and Popof islands, that has long been known for its high-grade gold. The Apollo and adjacent Sitka mines, established on Unga Island in...
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 this publication's ancestor, Mining News Alaska, and have continued both monthly, quarterly and annual mining news summaries ever since. With this summary, I have written my last Alaska update for North of 60 Mining News. When I wrote my first summary, Greens Creek was milling only... Full story
