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Dominion Diamond Mines Nov. 13 announced it will be recalling roughly 60 furloughed employees to prepare for an anticipated restart of its Ekati diamond mine in Northwest Territories. In... — Updated 11/25/2020

Osisko Metals Inc. Nov. 12 reports that its latest batch of drill results includes one hole that indicates a major expansion of O53, one of the deposits that make up the large zinc-lead... — Updated 11/12/2020

Mountain Province Diamonds Inc. Oct. 15 reported increased production at Gahcho Kué during the third quarter as crews at the Northwest Territories diamond mine adjust to COVID-19 protoco... — Updated 11/12/2020

Mountain Province Diamonds Inc. Nov. 2 announced it received C$45.7 million (US$34.3 million) from the Oct. 30 sale of 559,528 carats of diamonds from the Gahcho Kué Mine in Canada's... — Updated 11/5/2020

Nighthawk Gold Corp. Oct. 21 said it is encouraged by the drilling in resource expansion areas of the Colomac project on its Indin Lake gold property in Canada's Northwest Territories.... — Updated 10/22/2020

Mountain Province Diamonds Inc. Sept. 21 reported that it received US$89 million from the sale of 210,661 carats of diamonds from the Gahcho Kué Mine in Northwest Territories. This... — Updated 10/8/2020

Osisko Metals Inc. Oct. 5 reported the results from the fall drill program at its Pine Point zinc project in Northwest Territories. In mid-June, the company published a preliminary... — Updated 10/8/2020

Fortune Minerals Ltd. Sept. 3 announced the start of a geophysical program to further delineate expansion drill targets east of the company's Nico gold-cobalt-bismuth-copper deposit in... — Updated 9/26/2020

Gold Terra Resource Corp. Aug. 17 announced the start of a 10,000-meter drill program testing high-grade gold targets on its Yellowknife City Gold project in Northwest Territories. This... — Updated 9/26/2020

Fortune Minerals Ltd. Aug. 10 announced it is gearing up for an exploration program focused on gold targets on its Nico cobalt-gold-bismuth-copper project in Northwest Territories. A 2014... — Updated 9/26/2020

Nighthawk Gold Corp. June 24 said it is gearing up to resume an exploration program on its Indin Lake gold property in Canada's Northwest Territories that was put on hiatus in late March... — Updated 9/26/2020 Full story

Resumption of construction of the Tlicho all-season road is good news for Colomac and Nico, two mineral exploration projects in Canada's Northwest Territories. The Tlicho Road is being... — Updated 9/26/2020

Mountain Province Diamonds Inc. June 8 announced it has found a buyer of US$50 million of diamonds in a market otherwise closed to the sale of the gems due to COVID-19. Mountain Province... — Updated 9/26/2020 Full story

Gold Terra Resource Corp. May 19 reported that the final holes from its 2020 winter drill program at the Yellowknife City Gold project in Canada's Northwest Territories cut wide zones of... — Updated 9/26/2020

Fortune Minerals Ltd. May 7 announced that it continues to make progress on a new mine plan for its Nico cobalt-gold-bismuth-copper project in Northwest Territories during the... — Updated 9/26/2020

Gold Terra Resource Corp. (formerly TerraX Minerals Inc.) April 22 reported that its winter drill program continues to confirm and expand the gold mineralization at the Sam Otto South tar... — Updated 9/26/2020

North Arrow Minerals Inc. Feb. 27 said a geophysical survey program is underway at LDG (Lac de Gras), a 147,200-hectare (363,700 acres) diamond property in Northwest Territories being... — Updated 9/26/2020

Nighthawk Gold Corp. Feb. 19 reported strong gold results from drilling at Goldcrest, a parallel sill located 400 meters east of the Colomac Main on the company's Indin Lake gold... — Updated 9/26/2020

Avalon Advanced Materials Inc. Feb. 6 reported that headway is being made at its Will Scarlett rare earth elements recovery project in Illinois and Nechalacho REE Mine project in... — Updated 9/26/2020

Nighthawk Gold Corp. Feb. 4 reported that drilling continues to encounter strong gold mineralization at Treasure Island, one of the key satellite deposits on the company's Indin Lake... — Updated 9/26/2020

Det'on Cho Nahanni Construction Corp., owned by the Yellowknives Dene First Nation, has signed a landmark agreement to run the mining operations at Nechalacho, a Northwest Territories'... — Updated 9/26/2020 Full story

TerraX Minerals Inc. Jan. 20 announced the start of a 10,000-meter drill program at its Yellowknife gold project in Northwest Territories. The Yellowknife project encompasses 783 square... — Updated 9/26/2020

North Arrow Minerals Inc. Jan. 15 reported microdiamond results from the 2019 drilling of the Anchor kimberlite at LDG (Lac de Gras), a 147,200-hectare (363,700 acres) diamond property... — Updated 9/26/2020

Nighthawk Gold Corp. Jan. 7 reported that new drill results indicate that the widening of the gold mineralization encountered earlier this year could extend for a least 3,500 meters,... — Updated 9/26/2020

TerraX Minerals Inc. Dec. 27 announced it has raised C$5 million for the continued exploration at its Yellowknife City Gold Project (YCGP) in Northwest Territories. YCGP encompasses 783... — Updated 9/26/2020