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  • White Rock Minerals Red Mountain Alaska Australia Last Chance Dry Creek

    White Rock expands Red Mountain, again

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Aug 26, 2021

    White Rock Minerals Ltd. is carrying out the largest exploration program at Red Mountain, an already district-scale project in Alaska that keeps getting bigger as the Australian explorer continues to find more zinc, silver, and gold mineralization on the outskirts of this now 323-square-mile (836 square kilometers) land package. By late May, White Rock had already begun a more than 10,000-meter drill program that is testing both intrusive-related gold targets at the Last...

  • White Rock Minerals Dry Creek Red Mountain Alaska Last Chance map drill program

    Drill turning at White Rock's Red Mountain

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Jun 3, 2021

    White Rock Minerals Ltd. May 24 reported the start of a planned more than 10,000-meter drill program at its Red Mountain base and precious metals project in Alaska. The large program will include three diamond drill rigs testing for both intrusive related gold at the Last Chance prospect and expanding upon the high-grade silver-zinc-gold-lead volcanogenic massive sulfide mineralization at Red Mountain. The first of the three rigs are now turning at Dry Creek, a silver-rich VMS...

  • White Rock Minerals Dry Creek VMS deposit Red Mountain Alaska Matt Gill

    All systems go for 2021 at Red Mountain

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Apr 29, 2021

    White Rock Minerals Ltd. April 21 announced the closing of a roughly A$8.8 million (US$6.8 million) financing, which will fund the Australian company's largest exploration program so far at the Red Mountain project in Alaska. The expanded 2021 program at Red Mountain will include three diamond drill rigs testing for both intrusive related gold at the Last Chance prospect and expanding up upon the high-grade silver-zinc-gold-lead volcanogenic massive sulfide mineralization at R...

  • White Rock Minerals Red Mountain Last Chance 2021 drill program Dry Creek

    Exploring the bigger Red Mountain picture

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Apr 22, 2021

    White Rock Minerals Ltd. April 12 said it plans to carry out 10,000 meters of drilling this year to expand upon and explore the zinc, lead, silver, and gold potential across its 308-square-mile (798 square kilometers) Red Mountain project in Alaska. This program will involve three drill rigs focused on expanding the silver-rich volcanogenic massive sulfide mineralization already outlined in the Dry Creek and WTF deposits at Red Mountain, as well as the intrusive related gold...

  • Mining Explorers 2020 Yukon White Gold ATAC Resources Minto Explorations

    Yukon explorers rally after late start

    Rose Ragsdale, For Mining News|Updated Feb 11, 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 gamut of mining highs. Encouraged by the commissioning of the Eagle Gold Mine, government grants for exploration projects, and metals prices, dozens of juniors rushed to the Yukon to chase prospects in the northern territory. "Based on the historic trends, coming into 2020, it looked... Full story

  • White Rock Minerals AuStar Gold merger Red Mountain Last Chance Alaska Australia

    White Rock to grow with golden merger

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Feb 11, 2021

    White Rock Minerals Ltd. and AuStar Gold Ltd. Feb. 2 announced plans to merge into a larger mining company with a world-class portfolio of assets that include the large Red Mountain silver-zinc-gold-lead and Last Chance gold projects in Alaska, and a portfolio of exploration to producing gold assets in Australia. Under the arrangement proposed by the two companies, White Rock will acquire AuStar by issuing 0.78 White Rock shares for every AuStar share issued to shareholders....

  • Alaska mining sector Donlin Sprott Kinross HighGold Mining Explorers 2020

    Alaska exploration recovers from COVID-19

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Feb 4, 2021

    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 shelving of field programs infected by the COVID-19 pandemic early in the year. At its onset, 2020 was looking like it would be the best year for Alaska's mining sector in a decade. Australia-based mining companies were slated to invest nearly US$100 million in mineral exploration... Full story

  • Mining Explorers 2020 Alaska White Rock Minerals Ltd. Red Mountain Matthew Gill

    White Rock discovers Last Chance gold

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Jan 17, 2021

    White Rock Minerals Ltd. focused its 2020 exploration in Alaska on a potentially large gold system at Last Chance, a large target toward the western end of the Australian mineral explorer's Red Mountain property in Alaska. While Red Mountain is best known for its zinc-rich volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits and occurrences, this 308-square-mile (798 square kilometers) property about 60 miles (100 kilometers) south of Fairbanks lies within the Tintina Gold Belt, a... Full story

  • White Rock Minerals Ltd. Red Mountain Last Chance Quinton Hennigh Tintina gold

    White Rock grows Last Chance gold target

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Dec 30, 2020

    White Rock Minerals Ltd. Dec. 21 announced that 2020 stream sediment sampling identified a large, robust gold anomaly west of the Last Chance gold target on the company's Red Mountain project in Alaska. Best known for its zinc-rich volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposits and occurrences, the 308-square-mile (798 square kilometers) Red Mountain property lies within the Tintina Gold Belt, a particularly gold-rich province that sweeps across Canada's Yukon Territory and...

  • Platinum group element precious industrial metals Group 10

    Exploring for Alaska-type platinum metals

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Dec 23, 2020

    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 established in the industrial sectors. While being amongst the rarest metals on the planet already makes PGE's highly valued for jewelry and bullion, their applications in the automotive, petrochemical, and electronics industries are catalysts that drive the price of these industrious pre... Full story

  • 17 rare earth elements REES include dysprosium neodymium terbium europium

    North to Alaska for rare earth elements

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Dec 23, 2020

    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 critical to the United States. When the U.S. Geological Survey plugged in 52 critical mineral commodities into a recently developed supply risk tool, six rare earth elements – dysprosium (No. 1), yttrium (No. 2), neodymium (No. 3), lanthanum (No. 5), cerium (No. 6) and praseodymium (... Full story

  • China US rare earths critical minerals trade strategies wars Chess graphic

    COVID exposes chink in US metal armor

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Dec 23, 2020

    In addition to dealing a major blow to the economy, the COVID-19 pandemic has shined a spotlight on a chink in the United States' economic and security armor – an overreliance on foreign countries for the minerals and metals that lie at the frontend of American supply chains. "The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how delicate our supply chains are and that should be a wakeup call for all of us," Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources Chair Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said dur... Full story

  • Golden Sky Minerals Corp Luckystrike Resources Ltd Hotspot John Newell Tanacross

    Golden Sky explores Yukon gold Hotspot

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Dec 10, 2020

    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 the Yukon side of the Alaska-Yukon border. Hotspot is situated along the Big Creek fault, a regional-scale fault system that hosts numerous porphyry and orogenic gold deposits in Alaska and the Yukon. The closest such deposit is Taurus, a porphyry copper-gold-molybdenum deposit on...

  • First snow at Red Mountain minerals exploration project Alaska Range

    Snow ends 2020 Last Chance gold drilling

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Sep 26, 2020

    White Rock Minerals Ltd. Sept. 15 reported that it tested the Last Chance gold discovery with 1,990 meters of drilling in eight holes before a blanket of snow marked the end of the 2020 exploration season at its Red Mountain project in Alaska. "Considering the Last Chance gold target started as a stream sediment anomaly earlier this year, our 2020 field season accomplished a lot," said Quinton Hennigh, a technical advisor to White Rock Minerals. Best known for its zinc-rich...

  • Gold Bars Eagle Gold Mine Dublin Gulch Yukon Territory

    New mine, high prices spark gold fever

    Rose Ragsdale, For Mining News|Updated Sep 26, 2020

    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 hunters are again targeting prospects across the northern Canadian territory, drawn by the recent successful startup of a new gold mine at Victoria Gold Corp.'s Dublin Gulch Property east of Dawson City in central Yukon as well as discoveries of other rich aurum deposits in Yukon.... Full story

  • Tectonic Metals gold exploration camp Tibbs Maple Leaf projects Alaska

    Tectonic stakes new Goodpaster gold claims

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Sep 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 gold-rich region of Alaska's Interior. The new property, known as Maple Leaf, is roughly nine miles (15 kilometers) northeast of Tectonic's Tibbs project and about 31 miles (50 kilometers) east of Northern Star Resources Ltd.'s Pogo gold mine. The Tectonic team staked this 11,840-acre...

  • White Rock Minerals Red Mountain gold silver zinc exploration camp Alaska

    White Rock explores for Last Chance gold

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Sep 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 project in Interior Alaska. A detailed regional stream sediment program carried out last year led to the discovery of Last Chance, which is located on the west end of White Rock's 216-square-mile (559 square kilometers) property about 60 miles (100 kilometers) south of Fairbanks. Whil...

  • Exploration camp at Red Mountain zinc silver copper gold project Alaska

    White Rock expects 2020 Alaska program

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Sep 26, 2020

    White Rock Minerals Ltd. April 5 said that despite the market uncertainty and travel restrictions related to COVID-19, it intends to carry out at least a limited drill program to expand zinc mineralization and test a new gold discovery on its Red Mountain property in Alaska. "As an exploration company, we understand what it is like to operate in uncertain times with uncertain outcomes," said White Rock Minerals Managing Director Matt Gill. "Work is still progressing, and we...

  • Zinc copper silver gold exploration camp Red Mountain Alaska Range

    White Rock adds Tintina Gold Belt target

    Updated Sep 26, 2020

    White Rock Minerals Ltd. Jan.28 announced the discovery of a large gold anomaly at Red Mountain, an expansive Alaska mineral exploration project better known for the zinc-rich volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits found there. Two VMS deposits on the Red Mountain property – Dry Creek and West Tundra Flats (WTF) – host 9.1 million metric tons of Australian Joint Ore Reserves Committee- (JORC) compliant inferred resource averaging 5.8 percent (1.17 billion pounds) zinc; 2.6 perc...

  • Alaska mining to get Aussie boost in 2020

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Sep 26, 2020

    With two Australian companies making major investments and several exploration companies from Down Under chomping at the bit to get into the field, 2020 is shaping up to be the best year for Alaska's mining sector in a decade. When you add up the investments South32 Ltd. plans to make in the Ambler Mining District and other exploration projects; Northern Star Resources Ltd.'s spending at the Pogo gold mine; and the exploration dollars at least five other Aussie companies are... Full story

  • Old mining risks yield to new concerns

    Curt Freeman, Special to Mining News|Updated Sep 26, 2020

    As the year winds down, mineral industry evaluations for 2019 are being published at a rapid rate. One of the most interesting such global reviews is EY Global Mining and Metals' annual "risk radar" for mining and metals, outlining what mining companies perceive as the top ten risks facing them in the near future. This publication stated that, for the second straight year, "social license to operate" remains the number one risk facing mining companies in 2020. This was... Full story

  • High-grade zinc shows Dry Creek potential

    Updated Sep 26, 2020

    White Rock Minerals Ltd. Nov. 4 reported that it has tapped high-grade zinc mineralization that indicates a major expansion of the Dry Creek deposit at its Red Mountain volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit in Alaska. Two VMS deposits on the Red Mountain property – Dry Creek and West Tundra Flats (WTF) – host 9.1 million metric tons of Australian Joint Ore Reserves Committee- (JORC) compliant inferred resource averaging 5.8 percent (1.17 billion pounds) zinc; 2.6 percent (51...

  • Alaska is a great place to do business

    Shane Lasley, Mining Explorers|Updated Aug 14, 2020

    When it comes to mineral exploration incentives, currency exchange and infrastructure, Alaska is at a disadvantage in the realm of attracting exploration investments from Canada and Australia, countries that are home to the majority of mining companies. The Far North State's vast and underexplored mineral potential, however, trumps these handicaps in the minds of a growing number of miners and mineral explorers. Mining executives from around the globe perennially rank Alaska... Full story

  • Mineral riches lure explorers to Yukon

    Rose Ragsdale, For Mining News|Updated Aug 14, 2020

    Though mineral exploration in Yukon Territory this year lagged the pace seen in 2018, mine development projects advanced at a steady clip in 2019, while several past-producing mines moved toward resuming output. Yukon ranked fourth in Canada for projected spending on mineral exploration and deposit evaluation for 2018, according to statistics distributed by Natural Resources Canada. Spending for mineral exploration and deposit evaluations totaled C$249.4 million, made up of C$... Full story

  • Red Mountain at Australian White Rock Red Mountain project Alaska

    Sampling refines Last Chance gold targets

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Jul 23, 2020

    White Rock Minerals Ltd. July 22 said sampling carried out this year has provided further evidence of a potentially large gold system at the Last Chance target on the Australian mineral exploration company's Red Mountain property in Alaska. While Red Mountain is best known for its zinc-rich volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposits and occurrences, this 308-square-mile (798 square kilometers) property about 60 miles (100 kilometers) south of Fairbanks lies within the...

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