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Alaska can fuel American clean energy
ANCHORAGE, Alaska: Gathering together leaders, decision-makers, and experts toward the common goal of understanding the value of Alaska's mineral endowment and how to unlock it for America's... — Updated 3/17/2023 Full story
Graphite One reports resource growth
Updated resource sets stage for next level of expansion at largest graphite deposit in the US. With only 2,150 meters of drilling carried out during 2022, Graphite One Inc. expanded the quantity of... — Updated 3/14/2023 Full story
Alaska tribes break off Ambler Road suit
Seeking a balance between their traditional lifestyle and economic opportunities that allow their villages and the people that live there to thrive, the tribal councils of Allakaket and Huslia have... — Updated 3/11/2023
Alaska mine production tops $4.5 billion
More gold, strong zinc prices helped push value higher; critical minerals could add a boost moving forward. Alaska mines produced approximately $4.51 billion worth of nonfuel minerals last year, a 1... — Updated 3/11/2023
Red Dog generates cash for Teck, NANA
Strong zinc price, production drive increased profit for Teck; NANA gets extra boost from royalty rise. Due to a combination of strong zinc prices and production, the Red Dog Mine in Northwest Alask... — Updated 3/3/2023
Gold and ESG honors for Kinross Alaska
Kinross Alaska gold output rises; restoration of fish habitat near Hope supports company ESG strategy. Continuing a steady rise in annual gold output, Kinross Gold Corp.'s Fort Knox Mine produced... — Updated 3/2/2023 Full story
EPA finalizes decision, blocks Pebble mine
In what could be the most consequential "pollice verso" for Alaska, in a time when the federal government is seeking to shift the paradigm from more than a century of petroleum dependency to clean... — Updated 3/2/2023
Donlin Gold wraps 2022 with high grades
Barrick, Novagold now considering updated feasibility study for world-class gold project. To round out a large and highly-successful 2022 program at Donlin Gold, project partners Novagold Resources... — Updated 2/10/2023
Hecla's 2022 silver output tops 14M oz
Could top 17M oz during 2023 with contribution from Keno Hill Mine. With consistently strong production at its Greens Creek Mine in Alaska and a surge at its Lucky Friday Mine in Idaho, Hecla... — Updated 1/26/2023
Graphite One considers larger operations
To better match the world-class size of its Graphite Creek deposit in Alaska to the enormous demand for the graphite going into lithium-ion batteries powering the electric vehicle revolution,... — Updated 1/18/2023
Dunleavy vows to take on EPA over Pebble
Says pending veto of Pebble copper mine permits sets a precedent with implications that go beyond Alaska. Alarmed by the precedent that would be set if the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is... — Updated 12/15/2022
Royalty has little impact on Pebble PEA
An updated preliminary economic assessment for Pebble shows that a US$60 million royalty investment deal between Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. and an unnamed investor has a minimal impact on the... — Updated 12/3/2022
Critical road to Valhalla's Sun and beyond
As Alaska-based company preps for 2023, Alaska Delegation calls for swift Ambler Road resolution. After spending this summer preparing for its initial drill program at the Sun co... — Updated 11/17/2022
Graphite Creek criticality on the rise
A shortage of the graphite required for the lithium-ion batteries powering the transition to electric mobility is elevating the criticality of Graphite One Inc.'s plans to develop a mine in Alaska... — Updated 10/27/2022
Alaska's Office of Energy Innovation
Top objectives of new state office offers benefits for Alaska’s mining industry. Alaska's mining sector stands to benefit from a new Office of Energy Innovation established by Gov. Mike Dunleavy... — Updated 10/20/2022
PolarX scopes Alaska Range copper mine
Study shows mine is feasible, could be enhanced with more exploration. A scoping study provides the first glimpse of potential mines at the Zackly and Caribou Dome deposits on PolarX Ltd.'s Alaska... — Updated 10/20/2022
Van Nieuwenhuyse: "Welcome to Valhalla!"
Alaska-focused Valhalla Metals lists on TSX-V, raises C$10.2M Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse, a longtime Alaskan geologist renowned for founding and serving as the top executive of both Novagold Resources... — Updated 10/6/2022
BLM begins Ambler Road reevaluation
Federal agency is accepting public input on second Ambler Road EIS until Nov. 4 After months of uncertainty, the United States Bureau of Land Management has provided some clarity to the plans to... — Updated 10/6/2022 Full story
Second Johnson Tract deposit emerging
HighGold drilling expands gold-rich Ellis Zone north of 1M oz JT Deposit. With the latest batch of assay results showing the drills are continuing to cut broad layers of high-grade gold at Ellis... — Updated 10/6/2022
Millrock partners drill AK gold projects
Felix hits gold at Treasure Creek; Resolution awaits more assays from Tourmaline Ridge Australian mineral exploration companies have been busy this summer with drill programs targeting gold p... — Updated 9/22/2022
Pebble public input ends, 30-day decision
Pebble Limited Partnership presses for withdrawal of preemptive veto As the Environmental Protection Agency closed public input on its 2022 proposed determination, Pebble Limited Partnership calls... — Updated 9/22/2022
Study details US graphite supply chain
At a time when American automakers are looking for potential domestic supplies of the graphite that makes up nearly half of all the materials that go into the lithium-ion batteries powering... — Updated 9/15/2022
Critical minerals war in the White House
The White House's bold clean energy ambitions, which are intricately linked to the availability of reliable supplies of the metals needed to build electric vehicles and renewable energy... — Updated 9/15/2022 Full story
Earth MRI for Alaska critical minerals
Alaska is known to be a trove of the minerals and metals critical to every segment of the American economy. This critical mineral richness is despite the fact that Alaska is a vast state that remain... — Updated 9/3/2022
Doyon, NANA leaders visit Ambler District
Chiefs from the Doyon region and village leaders from the NANA region came together for a meeting at Ambler Metals' Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects to gain a first-hand understanding of the mining... — Updated 9/3/2022