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White Gold Corp. Jan. 8 reported near surface gold mineralization in several rotary-air-blast holes drilled along the Coffee Creek fault that extends eastward from Goldcorp Inc.'s Coffee... — Updated 1/18/2019

Since investing roughly US$70 million to acquire a 28 percent stake in Novagold Resources Inc. in 2009, American billionaire Thomas Kaplan and his Electrum Group of companies have taken a kee... — Updated 12/29/2018 Full story

Thanks to its own rich mineral endowment, Australia is a juggernaut in the world of mining, especially across the Southern Hemisphere. Over the past couple of years, however, a growing... — Updated 12/29/2018 Full story

In 1918, the Premier gold mine opened a few miles north of Stewart, a mining town that is the southern gateway to British Columbia's famed Golden Triangle. Over the ensuing 34 years, this... — Updated 12/29/2018 Full story

As the year waned, Alaska's mining industry reported some of the last of its 2018 seasonal field results while the University of Alaska and state of Alaska released some current and... — Updated 1/4/2019 Full story

Canada is the world's top destination for mining exploration spending, attracting more than 14 percent of global budgeted expenditures from explorers seeking to tap the country's vast mineral... — Updated 12/29/2018 Full story

More than three dozen explorers chased lucrative mineral deposits in Yukon Territory in 2017 and most of these junior and senior companies returned to the northern jurisdiction this year to... — Updated 12/29/2018 Full story

Thanks largely to increased investments from Aussie mining explorers, mineral exploration spending across Alaska topped US$100 million in 2018. This is well above the roughly US$95 million... — Updated 1/18/2019 Full story

White Gold Corp. Dec. 10 reported results from additional drilling and sampling at Vertigo that continues to expand the footprint of this intriguing gold exploration target on the JP Ross pro... — Updated 12/28/2018 Full story

Spectacular gold assays continue to roll in from the 2018 drilling and trenching at Vertigo, a target on White Gold Corp.'s JP Ross property that is shaping up to be the most robust gold... — Updated 12/14/2018 Full story

With nearly indistinguishable physical and chemical properties, niobium and tantalum are almost always found together in nature. Both are also critical to the defense, energy and high-tech... — Updated 12/7/2018 Full story

WESTERN ALASKA Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. announced that it had finalized a surface right of way agreement with Alaska Peninsula Corporation for use of that latter's lands for the... — Updated 12/7/2018 Full story

Goldstrike Resources Ltd. might be feeling lucky, but that doesn't mean the Canadian gold explorer is easing up in its aggressive push into Yukon Territory. Instead of kicking back and... — Updated 11/30/2018 Full story

White Rock Minerals Nov. 21 announced that it has staked 524 state of Alaska mining claims around Red Mountain, more than tripling the Australian company's land position at this high-grade... — Updated 11/30/2018 Full story

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 11/23/2018 Full story

White Gold Corp. Nov. 15 reported that drilling continues to cut long sections of high-grade gold at Vertigo, indicating that this newly discovered zone on the company's JP Ross property in... — Updated 11/23/2018 Full story

While claim staking and mineral exploration has rocketed in Yukon's famed White Gold and Klondike districts, this prolific action nearly comes to a halt at the territory's western border... — Updated 11/2/2018 Full story

It's clear by now that famed prospector Shawn Ryan has the Midas Touch when it comes to making significant mineral discoveries in the White Gold District of west-central Yukon Territory. Duri... — Updated 11/2/2018 Full story

As Alaska's mining industry nears the end of another hectic year during which metals prices and investor sentiments rose and fell as precipitously as the world's major stock exchanges, the... — Updated 11/9/2018 Full story

2018 is a milestone year for Kinross Gold Corp. – 25 years as a growing force in the global gold mining sector. Over its first quarter-century, Kinross has grown exponentially, from produci... — Updated 11/23/2018 Full story

Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. reported substantial progress this year at its Amaruq and Meliadine gold mine development projects in Nunavut that are expected to boost the company's annual gold... — Updated 11/23/2018 Full story

With continued financial and technical support from Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. and Kinross Gold Corp., White Gold Corp. carried out a budgeted C$9 million program in 2018 to expand known deposit... — Updated 11/23/2018 Full story

Nickel Creek Platinum Corp. is focused on developing its Nickel Shäw (formerly Wellgreen) project in southwestern Yukon into Canada's next world-class nickel-copper-cobalt-PGM sulfide mine.... — Updated 11/23/2018 Full story

White Gold Corp. Oct. 16 announced the discovery of Golden Saddle West, or GS West, a shallow zone of gold mineralization about 750 meters west of the Golden Saddle deposit on the company's... — Updated 10/26/2018

White Gold Corp. reported additional high-grade drill and surface sampling results from the Vertigo and newly discovered Suspicion targets on the company's JP Ross property in Yukon's White... — Updated 10/12/2018 Full story