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

Following a couple of quiet months where Alaska's mining industry focused on its work, the last month has seen an explosion of new info come out regarding that effort, some of it profound in its... — Updated 9/25/2020 Full story

White Rock Minerals Ltd. Sept. 24 said the latest batch of results from drilling shows significant expansions to the Dry Creek zinc-lead-silver-gold deposit at its Red Mountain project in Alaska.... — Updated 9/25/2020

White Rock Minerals Ltd. Sept. 20 announced the conclusion of its exciting inaugural exploration program at the zinc-rich Red Mountain volcanogenic massive sulfide project about 60 miles south of... — Updated 9/25/2020

Underscoring the interconnected nature of the global mining market, not 48 hours after the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act was signed into law, the mining industry began wondering... — Updated 9/25/2020 Full story

White Rock Minerals Ltd. Aug. 20 reported high-grade zinc grades were encountered in a second hole at the Hunter discovery on the company's Red Mountain project in Alaska. Hunter was discovered... — Updated 9/25/2020

White Rock Minerals Ltd. Aug. 6 reported that drilling has tapped massive sulfide mineralization at the recently discovered Hunter prospect on the company's Red Mountain project about 60 miles south... — Updated 9/25/2020

White Rock Minerals Ltd. Aug. 1 reported that its reconnaissance exploration has identified several new volcanogenic massive sulfide prospects across its 35,300-acre Red Mountain property in... — Updated 9/25/2020

Although the Alaska mineral industry is in better health in the middle of 2018 than it has been in the last five years, the spirited recovery that was in progress in the first quarter of the year... — Updated 9/25/2020 Full story

White Rock Minerals Ltd. July 10 announced that Sandfire Resources NL, a mid-tier Australian mining company that operates the high-grade DeGrussa copper-gold mine in Western Australia, plans to... — Updated 9/25/2020

White Rock Minerals Ltd. July 4 reported exceptional grades in the first two holes targeting the down plunge extension of mineralization in the Discovery and Fosters lenses of the Dry Creek... — Updated 9/25/2020

The summer field season is in full bloom across Alaska with programs stretching from the Brooks Range to southeastern Alaska, and from the Yukon border to southwestern Alaska. Exploration targets... — Updated 9/25/2020 Full story

White Rock Minerals Ltd. June 5 reported that massive sulfide mineralization was tapped in two of the first three holes drilled this year at Red Mountain, a zinc enriched volcanogenic massive sulfid... — Updated 9/25/2020

One of the most common complaints I hear from companies and individuals working in the mineral industry in Alaska is our deplorable lack of modern, usable-scale digital geophysical and geologic... — Updated 9/25/2020 Full story

White Rock Minerals Ltd. May 10 said crews have begun mobilizing to its Red Mountain property in preparation for an early start to exploration at this zinc rich volcanogenic massive sulfide project... — Updated 9/25/2020

The six platinum group elements – platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium, and osmium – are amongst the rarest metals on Earth. This scarcity, coupled with PGEs' uses in the aut... — Updated 9/25/2020

After trekking roughly 71 miles across Alaska's Interior on a winter trail west from Delta Junction, Australia-based White Rock Minerals Ltd. has delivered the drill, camp and other supplies needed... — Updated 9/24/2020

In 2017 Alaska’s mineral exploration industry saw its first up-tick in exploration spending since 2011, an increase that S&P Global Market Intelligence’s “World Exploration Trends” indicates was mir... — Updated 9/24/2020 Full story

White Rock Minerals Ltd. Feb. 27 said it is gearing up for the start of a spring exploration program at Red Mountain, a zinc-rich volcanogenic massive sulfide project in Interior Alaska. "The... — Updated 9/24/2020

Before color televisions hit the markets in the 1960s, rare earths where a curious group of elements that had the distinction of occupying their own separate section at the bottom of the periodic... — Updated 9/24/2020

As we transition from 2017 into 2018, the weight of evidence pointing to a long-awaited mining industry up-tick is being trumpeted from every financial institution, brokerage house and mining... — Updated 9/24/2020 Full story

Mineral exploration spending in Alaska hit an apex of US$365 million in 2011, but as venture capital for mining explorers dried these expenditures plummeted 78 percent to US$80 million in 2015. Howe... — Updated 2/3/2018

Alaska's minerals exploration sector is on an upswing, thanks to Australian mining explorers looking north and mining majors upping their activities in the state. South32 Ltd., a Perth,... — Updated 1/24/2018 Full story

With winter programs winding down and summer efforts rapidly ramping up, it is becoming clear that 2017 will be a much more vigorous year for the Alaska mining industry than the 2013 to 2016 period.... — Updated 1/16/2018

If there is anyone still on the fence wondering if the minerals industry has started a recovery from the doldrums of the past four years, this month’s mineral industry activity in Alaska should s... — Updated 1/15/2018

White Rock Minerals Ltd. Sept. 13 said it has identified a number of high-priority volcanogenic massive sulfide targets at its expanded Red Mountain project in the Bonnifield District of central... — Updated 10/2/2016 Full story