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Ascot raises $96.6 million to ramp Northern BC gold-silver mine to steady production; workers achieve impressive safety milestone. With the price of gold holding steady above $2,000 per ounce, Ascot Resources Ltd. is wrapping up the development of its Premier Mine and expects to pour the first gold at this newest iteration of the historic Northern British Columbia operation in April. "With project construction nearing completion and early commissioning underway, we eagerly ant...
Bridget and Isaac targets return promising chargeability and resistivity results, warrants further surveying. White Gold Corp. March 27 announced an extensive exploration update for two of its early-stage targets within the company's massive landholdings in Canada's Yukon, ultimately identifying multiple prospective anomalies near the world-class Casino deposit. Focusing on the Bridget and Isaac porphyry targets located on the Pedlar and Hayes properties, respectively, the res...
Sampling discovers more than 1,000-meter-long gold-in-soil anomaly that shares characteristics with nearby VG and Golden Saddle deposits. White Gold Corp. Feb. 22 announced that its 2023 soil sampling program identified a 1,000-meter-long gold-in-soil anomaly about nine kilometers (5.6 miles) northwest of the VG deposit on the QV property that has all the hallmarks similar to the Golden Saddle deposit on the company's nearby White Gold project in Yukon, Canada. "We are very...
White Gold Corp. Dec. 13 announced that it closed a C$5.1 million (US$3.8 million) that included continued financial backing by partner Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd, which is increasing its 19.5% share to 19.85%, and ultimately financing White Gold's 2024 exploration program. "We are very appreciative for the continued support of our strategic shareholders and are now fully funded for an impactful 2024 exploration program following the success of this past season where we continued...
Lying just deep enough into the mining frontier that value of its world-class deposits copper, gold, silver, nickel, and other metals has not been fully realized, yet home to the industrial-grade hydropower, road access, and Pacific Rim ports needed to unlock its vast mineral potential, Northern BC is well-positioned to be a major source of precious, base, and critical metals in the 21st century. This particularly mineral-rich section of the Canadian Cordillera also happens...
Following up on a banner 2023, G1 is accelerating its strategy to build a graphite supply chain in the U.S. Graphite One Inc. Jan. 2 provided a recap of a landmark year in 2023 that positions the company to accelerate its plans to establish an all-American graphite materials supply chain that will include a mine at the company's Graphite Creek project in western Alaska and an advanced graphite processing and recycling plant in Washington or somewhere else in the "Lower 48"...
From breaking ground at Alaska's next gold mine to the advancement of North of 60 projects focused on delivering the metals needed for the transition of low-carbon energy, and an impressive safety milestone at Alaska's only coal mine to a history of the helicopters that make mineral exploration across the North possible, here is a countdown of the 10 most popular North of 60 Mining News articles in 2023: No. 10 - CORE celebrates Manh Choh, Lucky Shot Contango Ore Inc., a...
Raging wildfires and record hot temperatures challenged the well-laid plans of a score and more of mineral explorers in Canada's Yukon this year as the 2023 field season shifted into high summer. Most of the companies, however, managed to carry out their exploration for gold, silver, copper, and other minerals across the territory. The fierce and sometimes out-of-control blazes marked one of the worst wildfire seasons seen in Canada in nearly 30 years, consuming more than...
White Gold Corp. kicked off 2023 with an updated mineral resource estimate for its namesake project in the Yukon and with an exploration program aimed to continue outlining exactly what its massive land holdings in Yukon's White Gold District contain. Located roughly 95 kilometers (59 miles) south of Dawson City, White Gold's namesake property is part of a roughly 350,000-hectare (864,869 acres) land package that covers approximately 40% of the White Gold District, which also...
Armed with new leadership and a plan to rapidly explore and develop its lithium prospects in Canada, Li-FT Power Ltd., set out in late 2022 on a bold quest to confirm historical prospects of lithium near the capital of Northwest Territories. While aggressive, the move was far from lacking precedent. Yellowknife, after all, has a history of delivering mineral riches, most notably upwards of 12 million ounces of gold from the legendary Con and Giant mines throughout much of the...
With a summer marred by unprecedented wildfires behind them, companies exploring the mineral-rich Northwest Territories are reporting impressive results from their 2023 programs. Seeking new deposits of valuable minerals, ranging from ever-popular diamonds and precious metals to recently designated "critical minerals," such as lithium, rare earth elements and zinc, a score of explorers took to the field across the territory. "An exciting new chapter is emerging for mining in t...
White Gold Corp. Nov. 14 announced the final drill results from the Betty Ford target on the company's Betty property in Yukon, Canada, revealing the consistency of wide high-grade gold intersections and continuity of mineralization at this highly prospective target. Reporting the results from the first two holes in September and the third just last week, the final hole from the Betty Ford drill program has returned results that elevate Betty Ford to an undoubtedly...
White Gold Corp. Nov. 8 announced that its 2023 drilling significantly expanded the width of the near-surface Betty Ford gold target on the Betty property in Yukon, Canada. Located roughly 65 kilometers (40 miles) southeast of White Gold's namesake flagship project, Betty is a promising property within the company's immense 350,000-hectare (864,869 acres) land package that covers approximately 40% of the White Gold District. According to the most recent calculation, the White...
White Gold Corp. Aug. 15 announced the start of the maiden drill program for the Cali target on the company's Nolan property in Yukon, Canada. Located approximately 77 kilometers (48 miles) west of Dawson City via the Top of the World Highway, connecting Dawson City to Alaska, Nolan is perched in the hills surrounding the Sixty Mile River. Comprised of 2,219 claims across 43,778 hectares (108,177 acres), Nolan covers a large area measuring approximately 30 kilometers (19...
Klondike Gold Corp. Oct. 11 announced an update on its 2023 exploration program at the company's namesake property in the Dawson Mining District in Yukon, Canada – reporting that it has been a fruitful season that grew the project closer to world-class status. Located roughly 20 kilometers (12 miles) southeast of Dawson City, the Klondike District Gold Project covers 727 square kilometers (280 square miles) of the famed Yukon gold district. According to a 2022 calculation, t...
Like many other northern regions, Canada's North was settled because of its mineral resources. When the Canadian Dominion Government first purchased its arctic regions from the British Crown in the late 1800s, the Northwest Territories was seen as a vast stretch of cold, inhospitable land and was thus largely ignored at the time. However, due to the Klondike Gold Rush, the future of these northern lands would change forever. These days, a new rush has arisen, a white gold...
Ascot Resources Ltd. Sept. 19 announced that it has acquired a full-service assay laboratory facility about 25 kilometers (16 miles) from the company's Premier gold mine project near Stewart, British Columbia. Seacan Labs Corp., a BC-based company that constructs and commissions modular labs for the mining industry, installed a full-service assay lab at the World Port facility in Stewart, BC, early last year. This lab has the capacity to process roughly 250 samples per day,...
White Gold Corp. Sept. 7 announced the initial assay results from the 2023 drilling on its Betty and JP Ross properties in Yukon, Canada, two of the three target areas the company has outlined for this year's program. Betty and JP Ross are located approximately 65 kilometers (40 miles) southeast and 30 kilometers (19 miles) northeast, respectively, from White Gold's namesake flagship project, which hosts 16.11 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 2.23 grams per...
White Gold Corp. April 25 announced an updated mineral resource estimate for its flagship White Gold project which has added the Ryan's Surprise and VG deposits to the tally, reaffirming its indicated category and swelling the amount of gold in the inferred resource category by 41%. "We are very pleased with the significant increase in our mineral resources," said White Gold CEO David D'Onofrio. "In a relatively short period of time, we have delineated a very large gold...
Amid renewed market interest in gold, White Gold Corp. recently reported increased mineral resource estimates for its flagship White Gold Project and unveiled plans for a 2023 exploration program across its namesake district in the Yukon. The junior explorer, which enjoys the financial backing of major Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. (19.5%) and Kinross Gold Corp. (15%), has turned its attention in 2023 to further evaluation of targets at its JP Ross and Betty Ford projects and...
White Gold Corp. June 15 outlined its 2023 exploration programs at properties within the company's namesake gold exploration district in Canada's Yukon. "We are excited to kick off our 2023 exploration programs in the White Gold District," said White Gold Vice President of Exploration Terry Brace. The company holds roughly 350,000 hectares (865,000 acres) of highly prospective land or roughly 40% of the White Gold District. Located approximately 95 kilometers (59 miles) south...
White Gold Corp. June 21 announced the start of diamond drilling at Vertigo, an intriguing gold target in the White Gold District that has virtually seen no drilling since 2019. Located approximately 30 kilometers (19 miles) northeast of the company's flagship White Gold project, Vertigo is a road-accessible target found within the JP Ross property roughly 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Dawson City, Yukon. After acquiring all of Kinross Gold Corp.'s projects in the White...
White Gold Corp. April 5 announced that it has identified two large copper-molybdenum porphyry targets on its Pedlar and Hayes properties in the southern portion of the company's 350,000-hectare (865,000 acres) land package in the Yukon. "Our primary exploration focus is discovering new orogenic gold deposits in the White Gold District and growing our existing gold resources. However, the Yukon is rich in various other metals which is also the case in our large land package,"...
British Columbia's Golden Triangle is poised for a mining boom that raises the bar when it comes to achieving the higher environmental, social, and guidance expectations for companies that produce the gold, silver, copper, and other metals the world needs and wants. While this mineral district in BC's northwest corner is famed for its rich stores of copper, gold, and silver – and to a lesser degree, nickel, cobalt, platinum group metals, and other critical minerals – the ESG...
White Gold Corp. Feb. 23 announced the latest batch of assays shows that the 2022 diamond drilling program on the Ryan's Surprise and Ulli's Ridge targets intersected multiple zones of gold mineralization between the untested region of both, suggesting a larger footprint within the 6.5-kilometer- (4 miles) long trend on the company's namesake White Gold District, Yukon. Located roughly 95 kilometers (59 miles) south of Dawson City and practically next door to Western Copper...
