North of 60 Mining News - The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North

It is hard to quantify which is more impressive, the sheer size of the estate owned by Doyon Ltd. or the rich and underexplored mineral potential on the lands owned by the Alaska Native Claims... — Updated 1/6/2022 Full story

White Gold Corp. Nov. 17 reported strong gold mineralization encountered during this summer's diamond drill program at the Betty Ford target on the company's Betty gold project in the Yukon. "It's... — Updated 11/18/2021

White Gold Corp. Nov. 11 reported a 16% increase to the mineral resources for the VG deposit at QV, a gold exploration project about 85 kilometers (53 miles) south of Dawson City, Yukon. White Gold... — Updated 11/11/2021

White Gold Corp. Nov. 1 reported strong gold intercepts in three rotary air blast holes drilled at Ulli's Ridge, an exploration target about 3,000 meters southwest of the Golden Saddle and Arc... — Updated 11/4/2021

From its first-ever diamond drill program on the Betty property in the vicinity of Western Copper and Gold Corp.'s Casino copper-gold project in the Dawson Range to testing a potential hardrock... — Updated 8/12/2021

White Gold Corp., one of the most active mineral exploration companies in Canada's North in recent years, is taking a closer look at Nolan, a property found in Yukon's fabled Sixtymile area near the... — Updated 7/8/2021

White Gold Corp. May 19 reported that its 2020 exploration program at the Betty gold project in the Yukon identified several targets for drilling slated for this year. Situated about 15 kilometers... — Updated 5/27/2021

From the first glimpse of a potential new discovery to watching the first load of ore pour into a new mill, mineral explorers working in Yukon Territory during 2020 reported experiencing the full ga... — Updated 2/11/2021 Full story

Strong metal prices and an infusion of cash from notable resource investors helped to salvage much of a 2020 mineral exploration season in Alaska that became lethargic with disruptions, delays, and... — Updated 2/4/2021 Full story

Challenged by a global pandemic and a particularly wet summer, many of Northern British Columbia's mineral explorers became adept to adjusting on the fly as they endeavored to unlock the rich precio... — Updated 2/4/2021 Full story

White Gold Corp. Jan. 21 reports that its 2020 sampling, trenching, drilling program encountered strong gold mineralization at several targets on its adjacent JP Ross and Hen properties in Yukon's W... — Updated 1/28/2021

White Gold Corp. continues its systematic exploration of dozens of targets it has identified across its more than 1-million-acre land package in Yukon's White Gold District. In June, the... — Updated 1/18/2021 Full story

Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. viewed the start of gold production from its Amaruq and Meliadine mines in Nunavut during 2019 as an inflection point that marked a new era for the company's endeavors in... — Updated 1/18/2021 Full story

The six platinum group elements – platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium, and osmium – have one foot firmly planted in the realm of precious metals while the other is firmly est... — Updated 12/23/2020 Full story

Niobium and tantalum are nearly identical critical mineral twins with unique personalities that takes them on separate career paths in the defense, energy, high-tech and medical sectors. "The... — Updated 12/23/2020 Full story

Due to their vital importance to American manufacturing and the fact that 100% of U.S. supply comes from overseas, primarily China, rare earth elements top the list of minerals and metals deemed... — Updated 12/23/2020 Full story

Golden Sky Minerals Corp. (formerly Luckystrike Resources Ltd.) Dec. 10 reported promising results from its 2020 drilling at Hotspot, a 46.4-square-kilometer (17.9 square miles) gold exploration on... — Updated 12/10/2020

White Gold Corp. Oct. 14 reported that it cut high-grade gold mineralization in five of the six holes drilled this year at Ryan's Surprise, a target about 2,000 meters west of the company's... — Updated 10/22/2020

White Gold Corp. Oct. 22 reported that this year's trenching, GT probe and soil sampling at JP Ross has identified widespread structurally controlled gold mineralization at multiple targets on the... — Updated 10/22/2020

Doyon Ltd. is seeing a resurgence of mineral exploration on its lands across Interior Alaska, especially on gold properties held by the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act regional corporation.... — Updated 9/26/2020 Full story

Ten years ago, Yukon Territory witnessed a minor stampede of mineral explorers, hoping to cash in on new gold discoveries in the White Gold District south of Dawson City. A decade later, gold... — Updated 9/26/2020 Full story

White Gold Corp. Aug. 6 announced that drills are testing Ryan's Surprise a target that could add to the more than 1 million ounces of gold already outlined on the company's White Gold property.... — Updated 9/26/2020

White Gold Corp. June 29 announced the launch of its 2020 exploration program, including drilling at Titan, a high-grade gold project on the Hen property about 70 kilometers (43 miles) southeast of... — Updated 9/26/2020

Tectonic Metals Inc. June 25 announced that it has added a new gold property in the Goodpaster Mining District and acquired a dataset that will assist the company's exploration across this... — Updated 9/26/2020

White Rock Minerals Ltd. June 10 said a team of geologists is slated to explore the Last Chance prospect in preparation for the first drilling at this gold discovery on the company's Red Mountain pr... — Updated 9/26/2020