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Greens Creek hits 10.5M oz silver in 2020
Hecla Mining Company Jan. 13 reported that its Greens Creek Mine in Southeast Alaska produced 10.5 million ounces of silver in 2020, a 6% increase over the 9.9 million oz produced the... — Updated 1/22/2021
Aussie nabs Fairbanks area gold projects
Millrock Resources Inc. Jan. 12 announced that it has vended three of its Alaska gold exploration projects – Treasure Creek, Ester Dome, and Liberty Bell – to Alaska-based subsidiarie... — Updated 1/22/2021
HighGold hits base metals-rich JT zones
HighGold Mining Inc. Jan. 21 reported that the latest batch of results from the 2020 drill program at its Johnson Tract project in Alaska has confirmed the expansion potential of the... — Updated 1/21/2021 Full story
Heatherdale explores old Niblack Mine
Heatherdale Resources Ltd. Jan. 6 reported that encouraging mineralization observed in the first four holes of the 2020 program prompted the company to drill all ten holes in the area of... — Updated 1/14/2021
Tower Hill Mines budgets $5.6M for 2021
International Tower Hill Mines Ltd. Jan. 12 announced that its board of directors has approved a 2021 budget of US$5.6 million for a work program that will primarily be focused on the... — Updated 1/14/2021
Upgrading Korbel gold with ore sorting
Nova Minerals Ltd. Dec. 18 reported that initial tests indicate that ore sorting could significantly upgrade the feed for a mill and heap leach facility at a future mine on the Estelle... — Updated 12/30/2020
Hints of new Alaska Range porphyry target
PolarX Ltd. Dec. 17 reported that its 2020 drilling continues to encounter near-surface copper-gold mineralization at Zackly East, and geophysics has identified a new porphyry target... — Updated 12/30/2020
White Rock grows Last Chance gold target
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... — Updated 12/30/2020
Fort Knox-style gold discovered at Tibbs
Tectonic Metals Inc. Dec. 21 reported that its initial prospecting of Carrie Creek, a newly acquired project immediately adjacent to Tibbs, has turned up intrusion-hosted gold... — Updated 12/30/2020
Most significant Amanita drill hole ever
Avidian Gold Corp. Dec. 17 reports that the second hole of its 2020 drill program at Amanita encountered the most significant gold intercept so far on this project that lies alongside... — Updated 12/23/2020 Full story
Final two 2020 holes complete at 64North
Millrock Resources Inc. and Resolution Minerals Ltd. Dec. 13 announced the completion of the 2020 exploration at 64North, and preliminary plans for the 2021 program at this large land... — Updated 12/23/2020 Full story
Drills tap Elusive gold vein at Herbert
Grande Portage Resources Ltd. Dec. 14 reports that drilling cut strong gold mineralization at Elusive, the southernmost of eight primary vein structures that have been confirmed at the... — Updated 12/17/2020
Drills tap high-grade gold in Ridge vein
Grande Portage Resources Ltd. Dec. 9 reported assay results from holes that tapped gold mineralization in the Deep Trench, Ridge and Main veins on its Herbert Gold project in Southeast... — Updated 12/10/2020
Heliostar taps gold in first Aquila hole
Heliostar Metals Ltd. Nov. 23 announced it tapped gold-silver mineralization in the first hole the company has ever drilled at the Aquila target on its Unga project on the Alaska... — Updated 12/4/2020
Alaska applauds True North reclamation
Alaska Department of Natural Resources and Department of Environmental Conservation Oct. 27 announced that reclamation of the True North gold mine north of Fairbanks has been... — Updated 11/25/2020
HighGold continues to expand JT deposit
HighGold Mining Inc. Nov. 18 reports that the latest batch of assay results from the 2020 program at Johnson Tract continue to expand high-grade gold, copper, and zinc mineralization at... — Updated 11/25/2020
Constantine validates Big Nugget Gold
Constantine Metal Resources Ltd. Nov. 19 reported that this year's prospecting and soil sampling has confirmed historically reported high-grade gold mineralization at Big Nugget Gold and... — Updated 11/25/2020
Alaskans to assist Greenland mine school
Experts from the University of Alaska Fairbanks' Mining and Petroleum Training Service (MAPTS) will help Greenland establish an underground mine training center as interest in the Arctic... — Updated 11/25/2020 Full story
Tectonic affirms Seventymile gold project
Tectonic Metals Inc. Nov. 12 announced that its 26-hole rotary air blast drill program at Seventymile has confirmed the company's geological model for this eastern Alaska gold... — Updated 11/19/2020
Fort Knox gold production trends higher
Kinross Gold Corp. Nov. 4 reported a significant increase in gold production and drop in costs at its Fort Knox Mine about 20 miles north of Fairbanks, Alaska. "At Fort Knox, we are very... — Updated 11/12/2020
Expanding high-grade Herbert Gold veins
Grande Portage Resources Ltd. Nov. 11 announced the completion of a roughly 8,500-meter drill program at Herbert Gold that involved 21 holes drilled outside the resource area at this... — Updated 11/12/2020
Continued improvements for Pogo Mine
Northern Star Resources Ltd. Oct. 27 reported that its Pogo Mine in Alaska's Goodpaster Mining District produced 53,810 ounces of gold during the third quarter of 2020, a 9% increase... — Updated 11/7/2020
64North winter drilling targets Aurora
Resolution Minerals Ltd. Nov. 1 reported that drilling has resumed at the Aurora gold target on the 64North project in Alaska. Located in the Goodpaster Mining District, the 160,000-acre... — Updated 11/5/2020
Gneiss Pogo-like gold discovery at Tibbs
Tectonic Metals Inc. Oct. 26 reported that soils sampling has identified numerous drill-ready gold exploration targets that are strikingly similar to the deposits being mine at Northern... — Updated 11/5/2020
Heliostar expands Unga exploration team
Heliostar Metals Ltd. (formerly Redstar Gold Corp.) Nov. 5 announced the addition of two new members of its exploration management team. Samuel Anderson, who spent 17 years as a... — Updated 11/5/2020