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UV lights up core from Last Hurrah drilling, indicating Western Alaska is nearing the fault-offset extension of Waterpump Creek Western Alaska Minerals Corp. Aug. 14 reports that drilling has cut more high-grade silver at the southern end of Waterpump Creek, and there is strong evidence that drilling further south is closing in on a fault-offset extension of this silver-rich carbonate replacement deposit (CRD) on the company's Illinois Creek property about 300 miles west of...
TOK, ALASKA – An Aug. 29 groundbreaking ceremony at Manh Choh marked the official opening of Alaska's newest gold mine. But even before tribal, corporate, and state leaders tossed the symbolic golden shovels of dirt celebrating the start of Manh Choh, the Alaskan crossroads town of Tok about 15 miles to the northwest was already bustling from the added business this mine brings. As the first real sign of civilization in nearly 300 miles for northbound Alaska Highway travelers,...
NIKOLAI, ALASKA – Alaska Energy Metals Corp. President and CEO Greg Beischer has returned to finish what he started when he first landed in Alaska as a young geologist for INCO Ltd. in 1995 – outline a world-class nickel deposit at Nikolai, a project that lies on the northern margins of an energy metals enriched geological terrane that arcs across the 49th State. "Alaska Energy Metals is positioning itself to supply domestic markets with a source of critical and strategic met...
Contango Ore Inc. Aug. 30 announced the official start of mining operations at its 30% owned Manh Choh gold-silver mine near the crossroads town of Tok, Alaska, and the launch of 2023 drilling at its Lucky Shot gold mine project in the Southcentral region of the state. The Manh Choh mine, a joint venture between Kinross Gold Corp. (70%) and Contango (30%), is expected to produce roughly 1 million gold-equivalent oz, which includes the value of both the gold and silver, over...
Li-FT Power Ltd. Sept. 6 reported strong lithium results from holes drilled through four pegmatite bodies on three of the 11 properties that make up the company's Yellowknife Lithium project east of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. These properties cover some of the most prospective targets found within the Yellowknife Pegmatite Province, a 9,600-square-kilometer (3,700 square miles) area east of the NWT capital city, and have been divided into two groups – five p...
Nova Minerals Ltd. Aug. 21 announced the start of discovery drilling at Train, a highly prospective gold target about 4.5 miles (seven kilometers) north of the RPM deposit on the company's 9.9-million-ounce Estelle gold project in Alaska. "We are excited to be putting the first holes into our never before drill tested Train prospect where surface gold occurrences collected over several years by geologists have indicated that another large IRGS (intrusive related gold system)...
Drill cuts 46m of 2.2% copper that includes 0.3m of 42.8% copper at 4100N; another discovery made. American West Metals Ltd. Sept. 4 reported that its near-surface drill program has tapped high-grade copper in two separate zones at Storm and discovered yet another promising zone of shallow mineralization at this intriguing project on Somerset Island in northern Nunavut. The company's 2023 program involves reverse circulation drilling focused on defining a maiden Joint Ore...
PolarX Ltd. Aug. 27 published the results from an updated scoping study for its Alaska Range project that incorporates a much larger resource for the Caribou Dome copper deposit. A 2022 Alaska Range scoping study investigated the potential of building a central mill that would process ore from Caribou Dome and Zackly, the two most advanced deposits on the roughly 22-mile- (35 kilometers) long Alaska Range property. This study envisioned an open-pit mine at the Caribou Dome...
Skeena Resources Ltd. Sept. 5 announced a 237% increase in the amount of gold in the indicated resource category at its Snip project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Located about 35 kilometers (22 miles) west of Eskay Creek, which has been the primary focus for Skeena, Snip is the home to a high-grade underground gold mine operated by Barrick Gold Corp. that produced 1.1 million ounces of gold from 1.25 million metric tons of ore averaging 27.5 grams per metric gold dur...
Benchmark Metals Inc. and Thesis Gold Inc. have completed a merger that brings together two large gold projects in Northern British Columbia's Toodoggone Mining District and the teams behind their success. "This merger has given rise to an expansive district-scale development and exploration endeavors, characterized by remarkable potential for growth," said Ewan Webster, president and CEO of the new Thesis Gold. The most advanced of the projects in the merged portfolio is Lawy...
Ascot Resources Ltd. Aug. 14 reported that its Premier gold mine in Northern British Columbia remains on track for first gold production in the first quarter of 2024. Lying next to the town of Stewart at the southern tip of BC's Golden Triangle, Premier is home to a past-producing gold mine that last operated in the 1990s. A feasibility study completed in 2020 envisions four underground mines – Big Missouri, Silver Coin, Premier, and Red Mountain – feeding ore to an upd...
Goliath Resources Ltd. Aug. 10 reported that its first batch of assay results confirm high-grade intercepts indicated by visible gold encountered in holes drilled at its Golddigger property about 30 kilometers (19 miles) southeast of Stewart in Northern British Columbia. A roughly 20,000-meter drill program that got underway in May has cut visible gold in multiple holes across a 1,600-meter-long area that covers Surebet Zone and Bonanza Shear. Based on current modeling,...
Blaze could reach NWT capital by weekend, 20,000 residents leave; one mining camp burned, wildfires disrupt entire mining sector. The already severe fire conditions across the Great Slave Lake region of Northwest Territories has taken a turn for the worse, prompting Canadian officials to order the 20,000 residents of Yellowknife to evacuate the territorial capital. Northwest Territories Minister of Environment and Climate Change Shane Thompson said "the fire burning west of...
American Pacific Mining Corp. Aug. 8 reported that the 2023 drill program at Palmer has cut up to 43-meter-thick zones of volcanogenic massive sulfide mineralization that include veinlets of native copper at this high-grade zinc-copper-silver-gold project in Southeast Alaska. "Drilling progress is ahead of schedule, and we are pleased to report that semi-massive and massive sulphide mineralization has been observed over drilled thicknesses of approximately 40 metres within...
Thesis Gold Inc. Aug. 29 reported that assays from its first three 2023 holes at Lawyers further confirm the potential to expand high-grade gold mineralization to depth at the Dukes Ridge deposit on this property in Northern British Columbia's Toodoggone Mining District. The batch of assays from deep drilling at Dukes Ridge marks the first news flow since Thesis and Benchmark Metals Inc. completed a merger that consolidates the adjacent Lawyers and Ranch gold-silver projects...
Ascot Resources Ltd. Aug. 25 reported that drills have tapped high-grade gold outside the currently planned stopes at Prew Zone, which is the first area of the Premier deposit to be mined when a new era of operations begins at the Premier gold project near the town of Stewart at the south tip of British Columbia's Golden Triangle. A 2020 feasibility study envisions four underground mines feeding ore to an updated version of the Premier mill. At 2,500 metric tons per day, this...
Investigates Cali lithium project in western NWT; to resume drilling at Yellowknife once the smoke clears. Despite the need to evacuate its Hidden Lake exploration camp due to the extreme wildfire situation in and around the Northwest Territories capital of Yellowknife, Li-FT Power Ltd. has had a productive year of lithium exploration in the territory and plans to build on this success as soon as it is safe to do so. Before the mid-August decision to move its people,...
Li-FT Power Ltd. Aug. 15 reported that it is temporarily demobilizing personnel, essential equipment, and key drill core from the Hidden Lake Camp due to wildfires near the company's Yellowknife Lithium Project in Northwest Territories. Currently, two fires are burning near Li-FT's Hidden Lake Camp – the Ingraham Trail Fire about 18 kilometers (11 miles) to the northwest and the Dettah Fire about 26 kilometers (16 miles) to the southwest. Although the Hidden Lake Camp is n...
Alaska Energy Metals Corp. Aug. 16 announced that it has acquired a database from more than $30 million of exploration carried out since 1995 at the company's Nikolai nickel-copper-cobalt-platinum group metal project in Alaska. INCO Ltd. first discovered and explored Nickolai during the 1990s. Nevada Star Resources Ltd. picked up the property, which was known at the time as MAN, and carried out exploration with Anglo American (Canada) Ltd. from 2004 to 2006. As its...
Dunleavy takes a first-hand look at mine projects at end of a proposed 100-mile road into West Susitna area. Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy and Department of Transportation and Public Facilities Commissioner Ryan Anderson visited the Whistler copper-gold and Estelle gold exploration projects during a recent tour of the western end of the proposed West Susitna Access Road in Southcentral Alaska. Extending 100 miles northwest from Port McKenzie near Anchorage, the West Susitna Road...
Resolution Minerals Ltd. Aug. 21 announced that it staked a 114-square-mile land package in an area of Alaska prospective for nickel with associated copper, cobalt, and platinum group metals. Australia-based Resolution is best known in Alaska for its exploration of the 64North gold project near Northern Star Resources Ltd.'s Pogo mine. Over the past year, however, the company has also been acquiring and exploring projects that could offer future supplies of the metals needed...
U.S. GoldMining Inc. Aug. 21 announced the start of the first phase of a 10,000-meter drill program at the company's Whistler gold-copper project 105 miles northwest of Anchorage, Alaska. "The start of our inaugural exploration drilling campaign at Whistler marks an important milestone for U.S. GoldMining," said CEO Tim Smith. U.S. GoldMining was formed specifically to advance exploration and development of the 53,700-acre Whistler project that was acquired by its parent...
Hole GD-23-157 cuts 9 meters of 45.3 g/t gold and 225.4 g/t silver; prospecting turns up 4 discoveries. Goliath Resources Ltd. Aug. 15 announced that assays have returned 23 meters of high-grade gold in GD-23-157, a hole drilled at the Golddigger property in Northern British Columbia that contained 12 occurrences of visible gold observed over a 20-meter section of drill core. Hole GD-23-157 cut 23 meters averaging 18.95 grams per metric ton gold and 95.3 g/t silver (21.08 g/t...
Third deep 2023 drill hole makes two discoveries – 76m near-surface high-grade zone; deep zone south of previous holes. American West Metals Ltd. Aug. 7 reported that the third hole of its 2023 deep drill program at Storm has made two significant discoveries on this high-grade copper project in Nunavut – a thick zone of near surface copper in an underexplored area of the project and deep copper horizon below it. "The diamond drilling at Storm continues to deliver, pro...
Dolly Varden Silver Corp. Aug. 8 reported that the first batch of assays from its 2023 drill program at Kitsault Valley has further extended silver mineralization on this precious metals-rich project in Northern British Columbia. Located 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 Homestake Ridge gold-silver project the...
