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  • Thick veins of gold running through core from drilling the Brucejack Mine.

    Newmont makes transitional acquisition

    Shane Lasley, Data Mine North|Updated Feb 22, 2024

    With the roughly $19 billion buyout of Newcrest Mining Ltd., Newmont Corp. has added two operating mines to its already impressive portfolio of gold and copper assets in the Golden Triangle region of Northern British Columbia. "By combining the two existing Newcrest operations, Brucejack and Red Chris, with Newmont's Saddle North and Galore Creek projects, a Tier 1 district in the highly prospective Golden Triangle region of British Columbia will be created – a district in w...

  • Drill tests resource expansion target at the Golden Summit project in Alaska.

    World-class upgrade for Golden Summit

    Shane Lasley, Data Mine North|Updated Feb 22, 2024

    More than 83,000 meters of drilling carried out over three years at Freegold Ventures Ltd.'s Golden Summit project successfully connected the Dolphin intrusion and Cleary Hill prospect into a single deposit with more than 20 million ounces of gold in all categories. This now truly world-class gold deposit happens to lie along a paved highway about 25 miles north of Fairbanks, and on the northern boundary of Kinross Gold Corp.'s Fort Knox Mine. The new resources calculated for...

  • Loaded mining haul truck with a bed painted to honor the Tahltan Nation.

    Golden Triangle of Northern BC ESG mining

    Shane Lasley, Data Mine North|Updated Feb 20, 2024

    Lying just deep enough into the mining frontier that value of its world-class deposits copper, gold, silver, nickel, and other metals has not been fully realized, yet home to the industrial-grade hydropower, road access, and Pacific Rim ports needed to unlock its vast mineral potential, Northern BC is well-positioned to be a major source of precious, base, and critical metals in the 21st century. This particularly mineral-rich section of the Canadian Cordillera also happens...

  • Three miners with headlamps approach an underground gold mine.

    Ascot sees light at end of Premier tunnel

    Shane Lasley, Data Mine North|Updated Feb 20, 2024

    With all the pieces in place, Ascot Resources Ltd. made the final push toward its transformation from mineral exploration and development company to a Premier gold producer in Northern British Columbia. Lying about 15 kilometers (nine miles) north of Stewart, BC, Ascot's Premier gold project is home to a past-producing gold mine that last operated in the 1990s. With much of the major infrastructure from this historical operation in place – mill, crushing and grinding circuits,...

  • Dark grey drill core with bands of metallic gold-colored copper mineralization.

    North of 60 Mining M&A heats up in 2023

    Shane Lasley, Data Mine North|Updated Feb 19, 2024

    From the world's largest gold company expanding its production profile in British Columbia's Golden Triangle to a 130-year-old silver mining legend strengthening its foothold in the Yukon and a soon-to-be new gold producer in Nunavut, mergers and acquisitions completed in 2023 will forever change the North of 60 Mining News landscape. In fact, if everything goes according to plan, by the time Mining Explorers 2024 rolls off the presses, B2Gold will be pouring the first bars...

  • Mining executive and Alaska governor on a ridge overlooking the Skwentna River.

    Critical year for Alaska mineral exploration

    Shane Lasley, Data Mine North|Updated Feb 1, 2024

    With Donlin Gold reentering the feasibility study stage, Ambler Metals waiting on the reevaluation of the permit needed for a road to the Ambler Mining District, and an overall lack of investment capital, mineral exploration spending in Alaska dropped during 2023. While the overall sector was down, there continued to be some bright spots – most notably, a growing interest in Alaska's critical minerals potential. In July, the U.S. Department of Defense awarded Graphite One I...

  • Veinlets of copper run through core from drilling at the Palmer project.

    American Pacific defines, explores Palmer

    Shane Lasley, Data Mine North|Updated Feb 1, 2024

    American Pacific Mining Corp. landed on the North of 60 Mining New scene with the 2022 buyout of Constantine Metal Resources Ltd., giving the company a roughly 45% interest in the Palmer volcanogenic massive sulfide project in Southeast Alaska. This project is being advanced under a joint venture with Dowa Metals & Mining Company Ltd. that was established before American's acquisition of Constantine. A preliminary economic assessment that was updated in 2022 outlines an...

  • A band of purple-tinged green aurora and the big dipper above a drill rig.

    AEM reenergizes Nikolai nickel project

    Shane Lasley, Data Mine North|Updated Jan 30, 2024

    With firsthand knowledge that the Nikolai property in Alaska is seemingly tailor-made to be a domestic source of the nickel, cobalt, copper, and platinum group metals needed for America's energy transition, Greg Beischer shelved Millrock Resources' gold-focused project generator model in favor of Alaska Energy Metals Corp. "Alaska Energy Metals is positioning itself to supply domestic markets with a source of critical and strategic metals," Beischer said when AEM made its...

  • A drill tests for gold, silver atop a ridge at Kitsault Valley in Northern BC.

    Dolly Varden expands Homestake Silver

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Jan 26, 2024

    Dolly Varden Silver Corp. Jan. 16 reported that its 2023 drilling has significantly expanded the high-grade mineralization at the Homestake Silver deposit toward the north end of the company's Kitsault Valley project at the southern tip of British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Lying about 40 kilometers (25 miles) southeast of Stewart, BC, the 63-square-mile (163 square kilometers) Kitsault Valley project is an amalgamation of Dolly Varden's namesake project and the adjacent...

  • An aerial view of the Whistler deposit and surrounding terrain during the fall.

    U.S. GoldMining confirms Whistler core

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Jan 26, 2024

    U.S. GoldMining Inc. Jan. 16 reported that its inaugural drill program at Whistler confirmed the high-grade core and expanded upon the main deposit on this gold-copper project 105 miles northwest of Anchorage, Alaska. "We are very pleased with the results from our first round of drilling at the project, which supports the robustness of our geological model, demonstrates improved continuity of high-grade mineralization and has successfully confirmed the presence of additional...

  • Looking down a mountain toward a helicopter and Kensington Mine site.

    Coeur Mining explores Alaska, BC assets

    Shane Lasley, Data Mine North|Updated Jan 17, 2024

    Over the past five years, Coeur Mining Inc. has invested nearly US$245 million into drilling and other exploration initiative aimed at building reserves and resources at its five operations and projects in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. "Through significant multiyear investments in expansions and exploration at our North American assets, we're rapidly nearing the point where we expect to see the benefits of these investments accrue to our stockholders," said Coeur...

  • Drill tests gold and antimony mineralization north of Fairbanks, Alaska.

    Group behind Felix excited about Alaska

    Shane Lasley, Data Mine North|Updated Jan 17, 2024

    Since emerging on the Alaska mineral exploration scene in 2021, Felix Gold Ltd. has amassed more than 150 square miles of gold-enriched properties in the Fairbanks Mining District and is working toward establishing an inaugural resource at one of the most prospective gold targets discovered so far on this enormous land package. As Felix carries out systematic drilling to outline an at-surface gold-antimony resource at the NW Array target on its Treasure Creek property about...

  • A headframe from historic exploration rises above a fall landscape at Bornite.

    Road reevaluation stalls Ambler Metals

    Shane Lasley, Data Mine North|Updated Jan 17, 2024

    Ambler Metals LLC, a joint venture equally owned by Trilogy Metals Inc. and South32 Ltd., dialed back 2023 exploration at its Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects as it waited for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to reevaluate previously issued federal permits for a proposed 211-mile industrial access road to the metal-rich Ambler Mining District in Northwest Alaska. Covering 448,217 acres of the famed Ambler District, UKMP hosts the advanced staged Arctic Mine project and more...

  • Drill tests for gold on mountain saddle during a summer day in Alaska.

    Northern Star grows Pogo gold footprint

    Shane Lasley, Data Mine North|Updated Jan 17, 2024

    With gold production on the rise and costs dropping at Pogo, Northern Star Resources Ltd. is focused on outlining resources and reserves to support the next decade of mining at its high-grade underground operation in Alaska. After the 2022 expansion of the mill to a nameplate capacity of 1.3 million metric tons per year, Northern Star has been working to ramp up gold production at Pogo to 300,000 ounces per year. The 81,322 oz of gold poured during the second quarter of...

  • Mining executives and Tetlin Village chief at the Manh Choh gold mine in Alaska.

    Contango ORE: Alaska's next gold producer

    Shane Lasley, Data Mine North|Updated Jan 17, 2024

    The first high-grade gold ore from the Manh Choh Mine in Alaska fed into the Kinross Alaska mill at the Fort Knox Mine near Fairbanks is elevating Contango Ore Inc. from a unique Alaska focused mineral exploration company to the newest gold producer in the state. "We are indeed excited to report that mining operations have commenced at Manh Choh and that the construction phase has been achieved on budget and on schedule," Contango ORE President and CEO Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse...

  • Rainbow next to a large Quonset tent camp on Alaska’s Seward Peninsula.

    Pentagon support accelerates Graphite One

    Shane Lasley, Data Mine North|Updated Jan 17, 2024

    Graphite has not been mined in the United States for decades, which makes the nation largely beholden to China for its supply of this largest ingredient in the lithium batteries that power everything from smartphones and household appliances to electric vehicles and military hardware. On a mission to accelerate the development of a domestic supply chain for the enormous quantities of graphite required for America's green energy and high-tech future, the U.S. Department of...

  • Molten gold being poured into a bar at the Fort Knox Mine.

    New era of Alaska gold for Kinross

    Shane Lasley, Data Mine North|Updated Jan 17, 2024

    With an August groundbreaking ceremony celebrating the start of Mining at Manh Choh, Kinross Gold Corp. fully entered into a new era of mining in Alaska that is expected to push Fort Knox gold production up into the 400,000-ounce-per-year echelon, a significant jump over the 291,248 oz recovered at the mine in 2022. This next phase of mining in the 49th State is being built upon the "Kinross Alaska" strategy; an initiative launched in 2020 to enhance gold production at Fort...

  • A colorful sunset illuminates a line of underground mining trucks.

    Agnico invests $100M in exploring Nunavut

    Shane Lasley, Data Mine North|Updated Jan 17, 2024

    Toward its strategy to develop the full potential of existing gold mining operations and a key pipeline project, Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. invested more than US$100 million on exploring this politically attractive and stable jurisdiction in Canada's Far North during 2023. This robust 2023 exploration began with a US$79.6 million budget for its three primary assets in Nunavut – Hope Bay, Meliadine, and Meadowbank – but given the early success, the company added US$21.5 million to...

  • A rind of green malachite (copper carbonate) covers rocks collected at Storm.

    Bigger Storm Copper brewing in Nunavut

    Shane Lasley, Data Mine North|Updated Jan 17, 2024

    It is hard to decide what to get more excited about at American West Metals Ltd.'s Storm Copper project in Nunavut – the abundance of near surface high-grade copper mineralization with the potential to be upgraded to a direct shipping ore, or the much larger yet still high-grade sediment-hosted copper orebody being unveiled under the zones being outlined on the surface. Together, these zones on the Storm Copper project on Somerset Island in Canada's Arctic offer a potential s...

  • Three geologists collect soil samples at a Blue Star Gold project in Nunavut.

    Blue Star discovers new targets, metals

    Shane Lasley, Data Mine North|Updated Jan 17, 2024

    Continuing a project-wide exploration program begun in 2022, Blue Star Gold Corp.'s geological team focused its 2023 exploration on elevating earlier staged prospects across the company's Ulu, Hood River, and Roma properties, which cover a more than 45-kilometer (28 miles) stretch of the High Lake Greenstone Belt in Nunavut to drill-ready status. According to a 2015 calculation, the Flood and Gnu zones on the Ulu property host 2.5 million metric tons of measured and indicated...

  • Closeup of rock sample with massive native copper and visible gold.

    BHP backs Brixton's 2023 Thorn drilling

    Shane Lasley, Data Mine North|Updated Jan 17, 2024

    The thick zones of copper-gold-silver-molybednum mineralization tapped with drilling at the Camp zone on Brixton Metals Corp.'s Thorn project in Northern British Columbia has attracted the attention of BHP Group, which invested C$13.6 million (US$10 million) to acquire a 19.9% interest in the exploration company at the end of 2022. "We are excited to welcome BHP as a major shareholder of the company and are looking forward to working with BHP in advancing the exciting Thorn...

  • Rock hammer provides context for copper enriched rock samples.

    Core Assets outlines high-grade CRD trend

    Shane Lasley, Data Mine North|Updated Jan 17, 2024

    While the district-scale Blue property in Northern British Columbia offers an array of high-grade skarn and carbonate replacement deposit targets, along with underlying porphyry targets, Core Assets Corp. narrowed the focus of its 2023 exploration on a 2,400-meter trend of high-grade CRD and skarn mineralization at Silver Lime. Honing in on this high-grade corridor began with Core Assets' 2021 first-pass exploration at Blue, a 275,890-acre (111,650 hectares) land package that...

  • A drill tests a gold-silver target on a cloudy day at Kitsault Valley, BC.

    Hecla ups stake in Dolly Varden Silver

    Shane Lasley, Data Mine North|Updated Jan 17, 2024

    In its second season since consolidating the Dolly Varden and Homestake Ridge projects to form the Kitsault Valley property, Dolly Varden Silver Corp. has focused its exploration on expanding the already established silver and gold deposits, as well as exploring the wider potential of this 63-square-mile (163 square kilometers) property about 40 kilometers (25 miles) southeast of Stewart, British Columbia. Four deposits associated with past producing mines on the Dolly Varden...

  • A drill tests for gold from atop a mountain ridge in Northern British Columbia.

    A Goliath Surebet in BC's Golden Triangle

    Shane Lasley, Data Mine North|Updated Jan 17, 2024

    The more than 34,000 meters of drilling Goliath Resources Ltd. carried out at Golddigger during 2023 cut three stacked horizons of high-grade gold mineralization that has shown the Surebet Zone on this Northern British Columbia property lives up to its name. Lying about 30 kilometers (19 miles) south of Stewart, BC, the 52,756-hectare (130,363 acres) Golddigger property covers a 56-kilometer (35 miles) stretch of the famed Red Line, a geological contact zone that runs...

  • Canada, Tahltan Nation, and Australia flag trucks at mine in Northern BC.

    M&A activity reshapes North of 60 mining

    Shane Lasley, Data Mine North|Updated Jan 17, 2024

    From neighboring gold explorers merging to create a district-scale project that will likely be attractive to majors, to Glencore making an aggressive bid to buyout Teck Resources Ltd., 2023 was a year of North of 60 mergers, acquisitions, and attempts at takeovers. The multi-billion-dollar M&A frenzy across Alaska and Canada's North was underscored by B2Gold's roughly C$1.1 billion (US$820 million) acquisition of Sabina Gold & Silver Corp. and the Back River Gold Mine project...

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