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  • Box of drill core with bands of white, black, and grey sulfide mineralization.

    Silver47 cuts strong WTF mineralization

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Dec 5, 2024

    Newly listed company confirms potential of the West Tundra Flats deposit on its flagship Red Mountain project in Alaska. Silver47 Exploration Corp. Nov. 21 said its inaugural drilling at West Tundra Flats indicates the potential of increasing both the size and grade of this deposit on the company's Red Mountain project about 60 miles (100 kilometers) south of Fairbanks, Alaska. Since its Nov. 14 listing on the TSX Venture Exchange, Silver47 has released a steady stream of...

  • A drill tests a treeless hillside along the aptly named Dry Creek.

    Silver47 drills high-grade at Red Mountain

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Dec 5, 2024

    Cuts 2.5 meters of 1,938.5 g/t silver-equivalent within 24.5-meter intercept during inaugural drilling at Alaska VMS project. Silver47 Exploration Corp. Nov. 18 reported that the first assays back from its inaugural drill program at Red Mountain include a 2.48-meter intercept averaging 61.4% zinc-equivalent, which combines the value of the silver, gold, zinc, lead, and copper cut in this hole testing the Dry Creek deposit on the volcanogenic massive sulfide project about 60...

  • A Quonset tent camp on a flat, treeless expanse in the Alaska Range.

    PolarX traces Caribou Dome copper deeper

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Dec 5, 2024

    One drill hole cuts 11.86 meters of 1.8% copper, tracing Lense 5 to a depth of 300 meters. PolarX Ltd. Nov. 13 reported that the final two holes of the 2024 drill program further extended the high-grade copper mineralization at the Caribou Dome deposit on its district-scale Alaska Range project in Southcentral Alaska. Lying just north of the Denali Highway about 160 miles (250 kilometers) northeast of Anchorage, PolarX's 22-mile-long Alaska Range project hosts Caribou Dome, a...

  • A drill rig perched on a mountainside with the Aurora Borealis overhead.

    Assays ready Palmer for resource update

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Dec 5, 2024

    First batch of drill results help define resource as American Pacific and Dowa prepare new technical report for high-grade Alaska copper-zinc project. American Pacific Mining Corp. Oct. 31 reported the first batch of assays from a 15-hole drill program carried out this year to upgrade and expand the high-grade copper and zinc mineralization at its Palmer project in Southeast Alaska. Lying at the north end of the Southeast Alaska Panhandle, Palmer hosts 4.68 million metric...

  • Hand holding two-inch thick rock sample of high-grade antimony.

    Exceptionally high-grade Stibium antimony

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Dec 5, 2024

    Samples with as much as 56.7% antimony refine drill targets at Alaska critical minerals prospect. Nova Minerals Ltd. Dec. 5 reported that 11 out of the 80 samples collected over a 400-by-800-meter area of Stibium contain more than 30% antimony, confirming the extent and high-grade nature of this drill-ready prospect on the company's Estelle gold-antimony project about 100 miles northwest of Anchorage, Alaska. Discovered during a reconnaissance exploration program carried out... Full story

  • Map of Felix Gold Fairbanks Mining District properties.

    Felix discovers NE Fairbanks gold targets

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Dec 5, 2024

    Soil sampling identifies prospects near the Fort Knox Mine and Golden Summit properties. Felix Gold Ltd. Dec. 3 reported that a systematic sampling program has identified two gold targets on the NE Fairbanks project about 10 miles (16 kilometers) east of the NW Array gold-antimony deposit on the company's Treasure Creek project in Alaska. The new gold targets are found on the Everest and Point Break claim blocks located approximately about a half mile (one kilometer)... Full story

  • A black semi with dual trailers with a total of 16 axles to distribute weight.

    Bridge limits mean less Manh Choh gold

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Dec 5, 2024

    Chena Flood Plain Bridge weight restrictions and heavier ore expected to lower 2025 gold production to around 200,000 oz. Contango Ore Inc. Nov. 29 reported that new weight restriction placed on the Chena Flood Plain Bridge is expected to impact the quantities of ore transported from the Manh Choh gold mine near Tok, Alaska, to Kinross Gold Corp.'s Fort Knox Mine north of Fairbanks for processing. Under a joint venture partnership forged between Kinross (70%) and Contango... Full story

  • A drill tests a large deposit of nickel during a snowy and foggy day in Alaska.

    Alaska Energy extends Eureka nickel zone

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Dec 5, 2024

    Drilling extends high-grade core zone southeast of the Eureka deposit on the company's Nikolai project. Alaska Energy Metals Corp. Dec. 3 announced that its 2024 resource expansion drilling at Nikolai has confirmed that the higher-grade core zone within the 8.1-billion-pound Eureka deposit extends at least another 600 meters to the southeast. According to a calculation completed in February, the Eureka deposit hosts 813 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging... Full story

  • A drill test for critical minerals in a mountainous area of Alaska.

    New critical mineral discoveries at Nikolai

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Dec 3, 2024

    All three holes drilled at Canwell cut wide bodies of energy metals about 15 miles northeast of the 8 billion lb nickel deposit at Eureka. Alaska Energy Metals Corp. Nov. 21 reported that thick zones of nickel, cobalt, chromium, and platinum group metals encountered in holes drilled this year at the Emerick, Odie and Upper Canwell prospects underscore the broader critical minerals discovery potential at the company's Nikolai project. Nikolai is comprised of two blocks of... Full story

  • Aerial view of airstrip and exploration camp in a valley between mountains.

    Nova expands high-grade gold prospect

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Nov 27, 2024

    Samples with up to 128.5 g/t gold were collected from Muddy Creek prospect at Estelle. Nova Minerals Ltd. Nov. 27 reported that a sampling program carried out this year has doubled the size of the high-grade gold zone at Muddy Creek, an exploration target that is part of a larger trend of gold, silver, copper, and antimony mineralization in the southeastern portion of the company's district-scale Estelle project in Alaska's West Susitna Minerals District. Lying roughly 100 mil... Full story

  • Closeup of core with black, yellow, silver, and grey bands of mineralization.

    More high-grade drilled at Red Mountain

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Nov 26, 2024

    Silver47 encouraged by strength of silver-gold mineralization at western edge of Dry Creek. Silver47 Exploration Corp. Nov. 26 continued to make its presence known on the Alaska mineral exploration scene with another batch of assays from drill holes that cut strong silver and zinc mineralization at the Dry Creek deposit on the company's Red Mountain volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) project about 60 miles (100 kilometers) south of Fairbanks. Following its Nov. 14 listing on t... Full story

  • Large hammer on top of rock samples with metallic blue stibnite mineralization.

    Nova grabs 54% antimony sample from Styx

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Nov 20, 2024

    Exploration and sampling confirm a second high-grade antimony vein outcropping from the Estelle project. Nova Minerals Ltd. Nov. 20 reported that its crews collected samples containing as much as 54.1% antimony lying on the surface at the Styx prospect on the company's 198-square-mile (514 square kilometers) gold-critical minerals property about 100 miles (160 kilometers) northwest of Anchorage, Alaska. "Field crews visited the Styx prospect this year to follow-up on the initi... Full story

  • A band of green aurora borealis above a drill on a winter night in Alaska.

    Freegold cuts 42 meters of 3.62 g/t gold

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Nov 11, 2024

    Intercept demonstrates continuity of higher-grade gold at eastern edge of 25-million-oz deposit at Golden Summit. Freegold Ventures Ltd. Nov. 11 reported assays from four holes that demonstrate the strong potential to upgrade and expand the 25-million-ounce Dolphin-Cleary gold deposit on the company's Golden Summit project about 20 highway miles north of Fairbanks, Alaska. According to a calculation completed in September, Dolphin-Cleary hosts 23.8 million ounces of open-pit... Full story

  • Drill test for gold near sunset on a long summer day north of Fairbanks, Alaska.

    New direction at Freegold's Golden Summit

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Nov 11, 2024

    Company discovers a shift in orientation and broader gold veins as drills trace mineralization toward historic Newsboy Mine. Freegold Ventures Ltd. Oct. 8 reported that its resource expansion drilling west of the 25-million-ounce Dolphin-Cleary gold deposit at its Golden Summit in Interior Alaska is cutting multiple higher-grade veins reminiscent of the historic Newsboy Mine about 1,000 meters to the southwest. According to a calculation completed in September, Dolphin-Cleary... Full story

  • Metallic silver-colored stibnite crystals radiate out from a central point.

    US Antimony stakes another Alaska project

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Nov 6, 2024

    Montana-based antimony producer stakes Stibnite Creek project west of Tok, Alaska. United States Antimony Corp. Oct. 6 announced that it has staked six square miles (3,840 acres) of state mining claims covering the historical Stibnite Creek antimony project near the crossroads town of Tok in eastern Alaska, marking the second Alaska project picked up by the Montana-based antimony producer this year. "The State of Alaska is under-explored, and we are considering other mining...

  • Closeup of a gold bar with “Pogo 6261” and “4000000 OZ” stamped on it.

    Pogo on pace to top 280k oz gold in 2024

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Nov 6, 2024

    Despite a five-week shutdown, the Alaska mine produced 56,000 oz gold in Q3; now positioned for 300,000 oz/yr production. Northern Star Resources Ltd. Oct. 24 reported that, despite the mill being down for more than a month for maintenance and repairs, its Pogo Mine in Alaska produced 56,131 oz of gold during the third quarter. Over the first nine months of this year, Pogo poured 206,641 oz of gold, putting the company's only operation outside of Australia on pace to top 280,0... Full story

  • Looking up a pile of core toward a drill testing a mineral project in Alaska.

    Evidence of larger Illinois Creek CRD system

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Nov 5, 2024

    Drilling at Warm Springs mineralization reminiscent of Illinois Creek to the south and Waterpump Creek to the north. Western Alaska Minerals Corp. Nov. 5 reported that the final six holes of its 2024 drilling at Illinois Creek has added to the evidence that Warm Springs is a critical link along a roughly five-mile (eight kilometers) long trend of carbonate replacement deposit (CRD) mineralization that extends from the gold-rich Illinois Creek deposit to the silver-rich... Full story

  • Female geologist in winter workwear beside a five-foot stibnite boulder.

    Felix eyes 2025 Alaska antimony mine start

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Oct 31, 2024

    Carries out studies to support permitting and development at high-grade antimony mine north of Fairbanks. Felix Gold Ltd. Oct. 23 announced that it has taken several steps toward the goal of establishing a 5,000-metric-ton-per-year antimony mine on its Treasure Creek project about 12 miles north of Fairbanks, Alaska, by the end of next year. Treasure Creek is part of a larger land package Felix began assembling in 2020 that covers roughly 151 square miles of the Fairbanks... Full story

  • Aerial view of the processing facility and living quarters at the Red Dog Mine.

    Red Dog is producing 5% of world's zinc

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Oct 24, 2024

    Northwest Alaska mine on pace to deliver 1.25 billion lb of zinc to global markets in 2024. Teck Resources Ltd. July 23 reported that its Red Dog mine produced 427,200 metric tons (941.8 million pounds) of zinc over the first nine months of 2024, putting this high-grade operation in Northwest Alaska on pace to supply markets with around 569,300 metric tons (1.25 billion lb) of this critical metal this year. During the third quarter, Red Dog produced 142,500 metric tons (314.2... Full story

  • A drill sits atop a gold-mineralized ridge on a cloudy day in the Alaska Range.

    Nova drills 29m of 7.1 g/t gold at RPM

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Oct 23, 2024

    With the final batch of assays received, the focus now turns to updated resource and PFS for higher-grade starter mine at Estelle. Nova Minerals Ltd. Oct. 23 reported that strong gold mineralization encountered in the final six holes of its 2024 drill program at Estelle continues to support the potential of developing a smaller starter mine at the higher-grade RPM gold deposit that can be scaled up to take advantage of the multi-million-ounce potential of this gold-antimony pr... Full story

  • Drone view of a drill testing for gold in the Alaska Range mountains.

    Drills tap more high-grade gold at Estelle

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Oct 16, 2024

    Includes one hole that cut 39 meters averaging 5.4 g/t gold from surface at the RPM deposit. Nova Minerals Ltd. Oct. 16 reported additional thick zones of strong gold mineralization in the second batch of assays from its 21-hole drill program focused on upgrading and expanding the RPM deposit. This expansion is in preparation for the completion of a feasibility study for its Estelle gold-antimony project roughly 100 miles (160 kilometers) northwest of Anchorage, Alaska.... Full story

  • A drill tests for copper, gold, and silver on a summer day in Alaska.

    U.S. GoldMining upgrades Whistler deposit

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Oct 10, 2024

    More than doubles the indicated resource at this copper-gold-silver deposit in Alaska. U.S. GoldMining Inc. Oct.7 reported that a new calculation more than doubles the amount of copper, gold, and silver in indicated resources within the namesake deposit on its Whistler project in the West Susitna Mineral district about 100 miles northwest of Anchorage, Alaska. Since the successful listing on the Nasdaq with a $20 million public offering in April of 2023, U.S. GoldMining has...

  • A drill tests for gold from atop a ridge in the Alaska Range mountains.

    Nova drilling readies RPM for feasibility

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Oct 9, 2024

    First 2024 holes cut strong gold mineralization at starter mine target at Estelle, including 43 meters of 4.4 g/t gold. Nova Minerals Ltd. Oct. 9 reported that the first batch of assays from the 21-hole drill program carried out this year at Estelle confirms the continuity and strength of near-surface gold mineralization at RPM, a higher-grade deposit that is expected to be the site of the first mine on the 198-square-mile (514 square kilometers) gold-antimony property about... Full story

  • A worker readies a pipe segment at drill rig testing for nickel in Alaska.

    AEM completes first drilling at Canwell

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Oct 3, 2024

    Drills one hole at each of three targets with compelling evidence of nickel-rich massive sulfides; two reach target depth. Alaska Energy Metals Corp. Oct. 1 reported that its 2024 drill program at Nikolai included three holes to test intriguing high-grade massive sulfide targets on the Canwell block of claims at its Nikolai nickel-copper-cobalt-platinum group metals project in Alaska. Nikolai is comprised of two blocks of claims – Eureka and Canwell – that each host com... Full story

  • Workers standing next to drill core at an exploration site in Alaska.

    U.S GoldMining extends Whistler deposit

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Oct 3, 2024

    Cuts 652.5 meters of 1 g/t gold-equivalent; encounters two styles of mineralization at nearby Raintree West. U.S. GoldMining Inc. Sept. 30 reported encouraging results from the first two holes of the 4,000-meter drill program completed this year at its Whistler copper-gold-silver project in Alaska's West Susitna Mineral District. Lying about 100 miles northwest of Anchorage and at the end of a proposed road that would link the project to Alaska's highway system, Whistler... Full story

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