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

Freegold Ventures Ltd. July 19 announced the start of 2017 drilling at its Shorty Creek copper-gold project about 75 road miles northwest of Fairbanks, Alaska.

The company first tapped porphyry style copper-gold mineralization at Shorty Creek in 2015 and expanded upon its find last year.

Hole SC 16-01, drilled last year at the property's Hill 1835 target, cut 434.5 meters averaging 0.57 perce...