North of 60 Mining News - The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North

NovaCopper Inc. April 19 provided an updated resource estimate for the Bornite project located in the highly prospective Ambler Mining District of Northwest Alaska.

Using a 0.50 percent copper cutoff grade, the Bornite Project is estimated to contain 40.5 metric tons of in-pit indicated resources averaging 1.02 percent (913 million pounds) copper; and 84.1 million metric tons of inferred resou...