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Pres. Trump vows to maximize Alaska's mining potential. As a state rich in gold, silver, copper, and 49 out of the 50 minerals deemed critical to the United States, Alaska is poised to benefit from rising precious metals prices and America's ambitions to become more self-reliant when it comes to producing the minerals and metals essential to the nation's economy and security. The importance of Alaska's rich natural resource endowment is recognized by incoming President Donald... Full story
Under a year of shifting landscapes and evolving priorities, 2024 saw notable strides across Yukon's mining sector. Paying homage to its pioneering roots, the territory navigated a transformative year marked by resilience, strategic advancements, and careful adaptation to environmental needs. Amid both challenges and successes, a singular direction has begun to emerge, underscored by a balanced approach toward economic growth, sustainable resource management, and strengthened... Full story
Alaska and Canada's North poised to deliver in the 21st century. As the United States wrestles to loosen China's grip on the global supply of critical minerals, there is a growing realization that Alaska and Canada's North host rich deposits of the elements essential to the energy transition, national security, and the overall economy. Antimony and graphite in Alaska, platinum group metals (PGM) and tungsten in the Yukon, cobalt and lithium in Northwest Territories, nickel...
Provincial and federal governments invest in Northern British Columbia's mineral-rich region. Home to roughly 75% of Canada's total copper reserves, along with rich stores of gold, silver, nickel, and other metals critical to the transition to clean energy, British Columbia's Golden Triangle has become a hotbed for government, mining companies, and First Nations investments. In 2024 alone, the provincial and federal governments have committed to spending a combined C$265... Full story
Reinstating Ambler Road permits was part of the "Unleashing Alaska" executive order signed by President Trump on first day back in office. With the stroke of a pen on his first day back in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to reverse the previous administration's decision to revoke permits required to build a road to the Ambler Mining District, along with a series of other Biden era initiatives that are significantly impacting resource... Full story
Western Copper and Gold Ltd. spent 2024 preparing to advance its world-class Casino copper-gold project to the next level by strengthening its leadership and management, refining metallurgical testing and understanding, and realigning permitting timelines with evolving environmental and regulatory demands to ensure long-term project viability. The beginning of 2024 marked a strategic shift for Western, as the company focused on bolstering its leadership team to guide the...
Western Alaska Minerals Corp.'s 2024 exploration program at Illinois Creek focused on testing targets that lie between two established deposits at opposite ends of a roughly five-mile trend of carbonate replacement deposit (CRD) mineralization on this district-scale exploration project about 300 miles west of Fairbanks, Alaska. Over the previous three seasons, Western had focused much of its exploration on Waterpump Creek, a silver-rich CRD deposit at Illinois Creek. Based on... Full story
Focused on unlocking the vast untapped mineral potential of Nunavut's High Lake Greenstone Belt, Blue Star Gold Corp. had a productive 2024, employing a balanced yet targeted exploration strategy that prioritized both breadth and precision to uncover new deposits while advancing known resources across its extensive landholdings. "Our 2024 campaign leverages the results of a very successful 2023 program," said Blue Star CEO Grant Ewing. "Our large pipeline of high-quality...
Throughout 2024, Cascadia Minerals Ltd. made significant strides at its flagship Catch copper-gold project in Yukon, Canada, uncovering high-grade copper intercepts and new gold targets while advancing other promising properties and ultimately reinforcing its position as a leader in Yukon copper exploration. Located about 56 kilometers (35 miles) southeast of Carmacks, the Catch property spans 117 square kilometers (45 square miles) within an underexplored region of southcentr...
Rejoins geological units separated by 300 miles and 52 million years; discovering a clue to Alaska's terrane wreck. The massive Pacific Plate colliding into and sliding past Alaska is causing a slow-moving terrane wreck that is pushing Denali and other Alaska Range mountains up to epic heights, enriching the state with minerals, and creating a dynamic tectonic environment that is witnessed by the magnitude seven-plus earthquakes that shake America's Last Frontier every couple...
President-elect vows to maximize Alaska's mining potential; an aligned Congress swings political pendulum in industry's favor. With an incoming president that favors "reshoring" over "friendshoring" the nation's critical mineral supply chains and a Congress positioned to pass permitting reform and other mining-related legislation that has stalled in one chamber or the other for more than a decade, America's mining sector is poised for growth following the outcome of the Nov....
From water pipelines to hydrogen bomb ports, Alaska holds a history of dreamers as big as the Last Frontier state. As the world steps into a new year brimming with possibilities, a reflection on Alaska's wildest visions through its relatively brief history can offer a glimpse into humanity's boundless imagination. From grandiose pipelines spanning oceans to domed cities beneath the shadow of Denali, the Last Frontier has long been a canvas for audacious ideas that dared to... Full story
Trump's vow to maximize mining in Alaska , ESG benefits of mining in Northern BC, and historic investments in a NWT critical minerals project land on the list. From the launch of a new Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) initiative to position Indigenous youth as next-generation mining leaders to the collapse of the tailings storage facility at Victoria Gold Corp.'s Eagle Mine, North of 60 Mining News delivered more than 570 articles last year covering the... Full story
Silver47 encouraged by strength of silver-gold mineralization at western edge of Dry Creek. Silver47 Exploration Corp. Nov. 26 continued to make its presence known on the Alaska mineral exploration scene with another batch of assays from drill holes that cut strong silver and zinc mineralization at the Dry Creek deposit on the company's Red Mountain volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) project about 60 miles (100 kilometers) south of Fairbanks. Following its Nov. 14 listing on t... Full story
Drilling at Warm Springs mineralization reminiscent of Illinois Creek to the south and Waterpump Creek to the north. Western Alaska Minerals Corp. Nov. 5 reported that the final six holes of its 2024 drilling at Illinois Creek has added to the evidence that Warm Springs is a critical link along a roughly five-mile (eight kilometers) long trend of carbonate replacement deposit (CRD) mineralization that extends from the gold-rich Illinois Creek deposit to the silver-rich... Full story
Alaska's critical minerals potential to take center stage at AMA convention; antimony and graphite expected to be hot topics. Rising geopolitical tensions around the globe, China's increasing use of critical minerals as a trade war weapon, and the International Energy Agency's forecast that an additional $800 billion needs to be invested into the mining of energy transition metals by 2040 in order to meet global climate ambitions, have political and military leaders looking... Full story
Grid Connect Project aims to deliver affordable energy, unlocking potential for mining and economic development. The recent federal investment of C$60 million (US$44.2 million), including C$40 million (US$29.7 million) earmarked for connecting Yukon to the North American power grid, is being welcomed as a promising step toward addressing the territory's longstanding energy challenges, with local industries, particularly mining companies, seeing this infrastructure upgrade as... Full story
Geologists collect high-grade copper-nickel-PGM samples from enormous Norilsk-style project in Nunavut. SPC Nickel Corp. Sept. 9 announced that surface sampling at Muskox has turned up grades as high as 19.5% copper, 9.42% nickel and 107.3 grams per metric ton platinum group metals on this roughly 250-square-mile (650 square kilometers) project in Kitikmeot region of western Nunavut. The company's Muskox property covers a large section of a roughly 90-mile- (150 kilometers)...
Investments will support infrastructure for critical mineral projects in the Golden Triangle and the Yukon. Toward the goal of positioning Canada as a global leader in the production of minerals essential to the clean energy transition, Ottawa is investing C$60 million (US$44.2 million) in energy and transportation infrastructure in the Yukon and British Columbia's Golden Triangle. "These investments are needed to support critical minerals development in the region, improve co... Full story
Incalculable riches, delicate ecosystem, and the green energy future. Deep-sea mining has captured the world's attention as a uniquely promising source of the metals needed for lithium-ion batteries powering the green energy future and a bitterly controversial topic of debate. Undersea deposits contain quantities of nickel, cobalt, copper, and manganese sufficient to replace every U.S. car on the road today with an electric vehicle. They also host some of the most diverse, lit...
Rising demand, lack of domestic supply, and China's dominance. While graphite has not captured the same level of media attention as some of the other mined materials critical to the clean energy transition, the strategic nature of this largest ingredient in lithium-ion batteries powering electric vehicles is high on the list of concerns for American automakers, Washington policymakers, and the Pentagon's top brass. These worries are based on a trifecta of graphite... Full story
Indispensable, expensive, and rare – PGMs get a green upgrade. Back in 1950, the first catalytic converter in the United States was a box bolted onto a car's undercarriage to reduce tailpipe emissions. It was patented by French mechanical engineer Eugene Houdry, who was concerned about the effects of automobile exhaust on the good people of Los Angeles. And it would have worked if it had not been for the octane-boosting lead then being added to fuel, which could choke any c...
Will the controversial metal find its place in green tech? About 30 years ago, nobody thought much about cobalt. Today, this metal, with myriads of uses, is one of those elements that gets dragged into the spotlight due to the role it plays in electric vehicle batteries, with critics citing the disparity between the environmental and social costs of producing cobalt and the green tech solutions this critical metal enables. But we can't build a clean energy future without...
Western Alaska Minerals encounters silver-zinc-lead zone below the gold-copper mineralization reported in August. Western Alaska Minerals Corp. Sept. 10 reported that this year's drilling encountered a zone of high-grade silver-zinc-lead mineralization at the Warm Springs target at Illinois Creek that has the potential to be much larger than the Waterpump Creek deposit already outlined on this property about 300 miles west of Fairbanks, Alaska. In late August, the company repo... Full story
U.S. GoldMining and Nova Minerals work side-by-side to advance gold, copper, and antimony projects at end of West Susitna Road. WEST SUSTINA MINERAL DISTRICT – The 4,000-foot Whiskey Bravo airstrip about 100 miles northwest of Anchorage as the Cessna 206 flies is serving as the operational headquarters of an emerging Alaska mining district with the potential to be a domestic source of minerals and metals critical to America's economic wellbeing, national security, and clean e... Full story
