The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
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When Vital Metals Ltd. purchased the rights to mine the mineral resources in the upper zones of the Nechalacho rare earth project from Avalon Rare Metals Inc. in 2019, the Australian junior hit the ground running. And the rest is history. Literally. In July, Vital Metals became the first company to produce rare earth minerals in Canada – a country known to host vast undeveloped quantities of this suite of coveted elements. Vital is also only the second company to mine rare e... Full story
Mineral exploration activity in Northwest Territories showed signs of revival in 2021, coming on the heels of the slowest year in recent memory. Excited by renewed interest in gold deposits in and around the capital city of Yellowknife and other hot spots after the pandemic-related restrictions of 2020, juniors joined longtime explorers Nighthawk Gold Corp. and Gold Terra Resource Corp. (formerly TerraX Minerals) in hunting for the yellow metal across the 1.14... Full story
With a resource calculated in March 2020, Gold Terra Resource Corp. moved roughly 472,000 ounces closer to its goal of unlocking the multimillion-ounce gold potential of its 800-square-kilometer (309 square miles) Yellowknife City Gold project in Northwest Territories. According to the new calculation, Yellowknife hosts 1.21 million ounces of gold in 21.8 million metric tons of open-pittable inferred resource averaging 1.25 grams per metric ton (876,000 oz) gold; and 2.55... Full story
Mountain Province Diamonds Inc. has two active exploration programs focused on discovering new diamond-rich kimberlites to extend the life of Gahcho Kué, a diamond mine in Northwest Territories owned under a joint venture between De Beers Canada Inc. (51%) and Mountain Province (49%). The first program, which is carried out by the Gahcho Kué Joint Venture, is focused on exploring for discoveries across the 5,216-hectare (12,889 acres) Gahcho Kué property that can extend th... Full story
After kicking off 2021 with a major upgrade and expansion to the mineral resources at Indin Lake, Nighthawk Gold Corp. launched the largest drill program ever at this 930-square-kilometer (359 square miles) gold property in Northwest Territories. According to the May calculation, Indin Lake hosts 38.7 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 1.81 grams per metric ton (2.25 million ounces) gold, a 35% increase over the 2020 resource estimate, and 11.5 million metric... Full story
Advancing the historic Pine Point project, Osisko Metals Inc. spent 2021 proving that the zinc-lead project had more to give, on a zinc-only basis, enough to give that could rank it within the top ten in the world. Formerly mined under Cominco (now Teck Resources), Pine Point – roughly 26 miles (42 kilometers) east of Hay River, Northwest Territories – produced roughly 14 billion pounds of zinc and 4 billion lb of lead from around 64 million metric tons of ore averaging abo... Full story
