The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
Contact: Kirk Zerkel
Phone: 907-746-4505
5563 N Tazlina Drive
Palmer, AK 99645 United States
E-mail: [email protected]
AAP provides contract mining and civil construction services supporting the Mining Industry in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. We specialize in all manners of Earthmoving, Geosynthetic Installations, Concrete batching and construction, Metal Building Erection, and HDPE Piping. The core focus of our Company has and always will be Safety, with over 2 Million manhours logged without a LTA.
Contact: Greg Beischer
Phone: 907-677-7479
430 West 7th Ave.
Ste. 100
Anchorage, Alaska 99501 United States
https://alaskaenergymetals.com/
E-mail: [email protected]
Alaska Energy Metals is exploring and developing a large-scale nickel – copper – cobalt platinum group element project in central Alaska south of Fairbanks.
Contact: Shalon Harrington, Director of External Affairs
Phone: 907-339-8770
3700 Centerpoint Drive
Suite 101
Anchorage, AK 99503 United States
Hours of operation: 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
E-mail: [email protected]
Ambler Metals is an independently operated company owned equally by Trilogy Metals Inc. and South32 Limited. The company is focused on exploring and developing its sizable holdings in the Ambler Mining District in Alaska. The most advanced in this prospective district is the Arctic project.
Contact: Sales Manager
Phone: 705-929-1147
Fax: 705-674-7834
122 Dell St
Unit A
Sudbury, ON P3C 2Y1 Canada
https://www.becker-mining.com/
E-mail: [email protected]
Becker Varis is dedicated to the development and application of effective communications in mining, and tunneling. It is internationally recognized for its quality, Leaky Feeder communication, TCP/IP over Leaky Feeder, Resource Tagging & Tracking System, Remote blasting devices and Environmental Monitoring systems.
Contact: Rochelle Lindley
Phone: 907-957-1151
3031 Clinton Drive, Suite 202
Juneau, AK 99801 United States
https://www.coeur.com/kensington
E-mail: [email protected]
Coeur Alaska, Inc.'s Kensington Mine is an underground, hard rock gold mine located 45 miles north-northwest of Juneau, Alaska, in the Berners Bay Mining District. In 2019, Kensington reached the milestone of over one million ounces of gold produced and celebrated its tenth full year of production on July 3, 2020. With approximately 400 employees, Coeur Alaska is the second largest private employer in the City and Borough of Juneau.
Contact: Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse
Phone: 907-888-4273
516 2nd Ave
Suite #401
Fairbanks, AK 99701 United States
Hours of operation: 24/7/365
E-mail: [email protected]
Contango ORE is developing “Alaska’s Next Gold Mines”. We are now in production at our 30% owned Manh Choh mine and anticipate producing between 30,000 and 40,000 ounces of gold in 2024. Meanwhile, exploration continues on our 100% owned Lucky Shot and Johnson Tract projects. At Lucky Shot, we will continue to develop a mine plan while at Johnson Tract, permitting is underway to construct underground access to the orebody for Feasibility Level mine planning.
Contact: Samantha Angaiak-Miller
Phone: 907-310-9802
2525 C Street
Suite 450
Anchorage, AK 99503 United States
Hours of operation: 9-5
E-mail: [email protected]
Donlin Gold is a world-class gold deposit owned by Indigenous Alaska Native landowners, Calista Corporation and The Kuskokwim Corporation. Located in Western Alaska in the Yukon-Kuskokwim region, the Donlin Gold deposit ranks fourth in the world with probable gold deposits estimated at 33.8 million ounces. Preservation of subsistence ways of life and meaningful benefits to the Y-K Alaska Native shareholders are a top priority for Donlin Gold.
Contact: Chelsea Flint
Phone: 907-600-7737 Ext. 1492
PO Box 32199
Juneau, AK 99803 United States
E-mail: [email protected]
The Greens Creek Mine is located on Admiralty Island, approximately 18 miles south of Juneau, and produces silver, zinc, lead and gold. The mine is 100% owned and operated by Hecla Mining Company.
Contact: Zach Flood
Phone: +1 (604) 568 6005
1570–1111 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, BC V6E 4M3 Canada
https://www.kenorlandminerals.com/
E-mail: [email protected]
“Kenorland Minerals Ltd. (TSXV: KLD) is a well-financed mineral exploration company focused on project generation and early-stage exploration in North America. Kenorland’s exploration strategy is to advance greenfields projects through systematic, property-wide, phased exploration surveys financed primarily through exploration partnerships including option to joint venture agreements. Kenorland holds a 4% net smelter return royalty on the Frotet Project in Quebec which is owned by Sumitomo Metal Mining Canada Ltd. The Frotet Project hosts the Regnault gold system, a greenfields discovery made by Kenorland and Sumitomo Metal Mining Canada Ltd. in 2020. Kenorland is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.”
Contact: Meadow Riedel
Phone: 907-387-2340
PO Box 73726
Fairbanks, Alaska 99707 United States
E-mail: [email protected]
Kinross Alaska is comprised of the Fort Knox mine and the Manh Choh mine. Fort Knox, near Fairbanks, has been operating since 1996 and produced its 9th millionth ounce of gold in 2023. It employs 800 employees, plus on-site contractors. In 2019, Kinross proceeded with the Gilmore life of mine extension project. The Manh Choh mine is a joint venture with Contango and is located on Tetlin tribal land near Tok. The Native Village of Tetlin owns both the surface and subsurface rights. Plans are to start producing gold in 2024 with a focus on local hire and optimizing local businesses. Kinross will truck the high grade ore to Fort Knox for processing, which reduces the environmental footprint by removing the need for a tailings facility.
Contact: Wendie MacNaughton
Phone: 907-458-4003
3204 International Street
Fairbanks, AK 99701 United States
E-mail: [email protected]
Northern Star Resources Limited is a global-scale gold producer with Tier-1 world-class projects located in highly prospective and low sovereign risk regions of Australia and North America.
Northern Star’s Pogo Operation is located 85 miles southeast of Fairbanks. The mine commenced operation in 2006 and was purchased by Northern Star in 2018.
Northern Star continues to invest in building a strong asset base through strategic acquisitions and aggressive exploration to extend the mine lives across its world-class operations.
Estelle Gold Project
E-mail: [email protected]
Nova Minerals Limited (ASX: NVA) vision is developing North America’s next major gold trend, Estelle, to become a world class, tier-one, global gold producer. Its flagship Estelle Gold Project contains multiple resource centers across a 35km long mineralized corridor of over 20 identified gold prospects, including two already defined multi-million-ounce resources across 4 deposits containing a combined 9.9 Moz Au. The project is situated on the Estelle Gold Trend in Alaska’s prolific Tintina Gold Belt, a province which hosts a 220 million ounce (Moz) documented gold endowment and some of the world’s largest gold mines and discoveries including Victoria Gold’s Eagle Mine and Kinross Gold Corporation’s Fort Knox Gold Mine.
Recently antimony and other critical minerals were also discovered coincident with the gold in surface sampling on numerous prospects across the project.
Additionally, Nova holds a substantial interest in NASDAQ-listed lithium explorer Snow Lake Resources Ltd (NASDAQ: LITM) and a holding in Asra Minerals Limited (ASX: ASR), a gold and rare earths exploration company based in Western Australia.
Contact: Frank Gagnon, Manager, Investor Relations
Phone: 604-669-6227
Fax: 604-669-6272
400 Burrard Street, Suite 1860
Vancouver, BC V6C 3A6 Canada
E-mail: [email protected]
NOVAGOLD RESOURCES INC. (TSX, NYSE American: NG) is a well-funded pure gold play focused on Alaska’s federally permitted Donlin Gold project in equal partnership with Barrick Gold. The Donlin Gold project is a uniquely attractive asset which in terms of size, grade, exploration potential, production profile, mine life, and jurisdictional safety is regarded to be one of the largest, highest-grade, and most prospective known open pit gold deposits in the world.
Contact: Nicole Hoeller, Vice-President, Communications
Phone: 604 629-1165
405 – 375 Water Street
Vancouver, BC V6B 5C6 Canada
Hours of operation: 9-5
E-mail: [email protected]
Onyx Gold is focused on well-established Canadian mining jurisdictions, with exploration assets in Timmins, Ontario, and Yukon Territory. The Company’s portfolio of gold projects in the Timmins camp includes the Munro-Croesus Gold property, renowned for its high-grade mineralization, plus two additional earlier-stage large exploration properties. Onyx also controls four properties in the Selwyn Basin area of Yukon Territory, which is currently gaining significance due to recent discoveries in the area by Snowline Gold
Contact: Mckinsey Lyon
Phone: 208-901-3060
Fax: 208-325-9273
13181 Highway 55
PO Box 429
Donnelly, Idaho 83615 United States
https://perpetuaresources.com/
E-mail: [email protected]
Perpetua Resources is dedicated to responsible mining to positively impact future generations. With our Stibnite Gold Project, our goal is to transform an area abandoned after 100 years of mining activity into a national strategic asset for critical mineral and gold production through a sustainable approach to restore the environment for the benefit of all stakeholders.
Contact: Wayne Hall
Phone: 907-754-5168
2525 C Street
Ste 310
Anchorage, AK 99503 United States
Hours of operation: 8-5
E-mail: [email protected]
Red Dog Operations is one of the world's largest zinc mines, located about 105 miles north of the Arctic Circle in northwest Alaska, near Kotzebue.
In 1989, Red Dog Operations was developed through an innovative operating agreement between the operator Teck and the land-owner NANA, a Regional Alaska Native corporation owned by the Iñupiat people of northwest Alaska. The mine and concentrator properties are leased from, and were developed under the agreement with NANA.
Contact: Tim Smith
Phone: 1 833 388 9788
Office 203, 301 Calista Court
Anchorage, AK 99518 United States
E-mail: [email protected]
U.S. GoldMining Inc. is a newly minted exploration and mine development company focused on unlocking the substantial value of the Whistler gold-copper project, located in Alaska, USA. U.S. GoldMining completed an IPO in April 2023, listing on Nasdaq (NASDAQ:USGO) and raising US$20 Million to be used for exploration and mining studies of the Whistler project.
Contact: Mark MacDonald
Phone: 902-482-5214
106-210 Waterfront Drive
Bedford, Nova Scotia B4A 4K5 Canada
Hours of operation: 9-5 pm ADT
E-mail: [email protected]
Ucore is focused on rare- and critical-metals resources, extraction, beneficiation, and separation technologies with the potential for production, growth, and scalability. Ucore has an effective 100% ownership stake in the Bokan-Dotson Ridge Rare Earth Element Project in Southeast Alaska, USA. Ucore’s vision and plan is to become a leading advanced technology company, providing best-in-class metal separation products and services to the mining and mineral extraction industry.
Contact: Lisa Herbert
Phone: 907-452-2625
100 Cushman Street
Suite 210
Fairbanks, AK 99701 United States
E-mail: [email protected]
Usibelli Coal Mine (UCM) is the only operational coal mine in Alaska located 115 miles south of Fairbanks. Founded in 1943 by Emil Usibelli, the mine continues to be a fourth generation, family owned business 75 years later. UCM produces approximately 1-million tons of ultra-low sulfur coal that is supplied to the power plants located in Interior Alaska for heat and power. UCM operates year-round and is supported by the most modern mining equipment and state-of-the-art engineering with a workforce of approximately 100 people.
Contact: Sorin Posescu - President & CEO
516 2nd Avenue
Suite 401
Fairbanks, AK 99701 United States
Hours of operation: 8am - 5pm
E-mail: [email protected]
Valhalla Metals Inc (VMXX) (VMXXF) is engaged in the business of mineral exploration and development with two assets located in the prolific Ambler District VMS mineral belt, NW Alaska. These projects represent an opportunity to gain access to one of the most underexplored world-class VMS districts in North America. Valhalla is led by an award-winning management team with track-records for major discoveries. Corporately, Valhalla intends to continue exploration at the flagship Sun deposit focused on expanding known resources while evaluating several acquisition targets in regions that will allow Valhalla to grow high-quality assets year-round.
Contact: Angelique Bjork
Phone: 867-667-2090
P.O. Box 31475
Whitehorse, YT Y1A 6K8 Canada
Hours of operation: 9:00 – 4:00
E-mail: [email protected]
WHO WE ARE
The Yukon Chamber of Mines represents a dynamic membership. Since its creation 80 years ago, the Chamber has worked to serve its valued members and advance the interests of all those involved in both the exploration and mining industry.
WHAT WE DO
The Yukon Chamber of Mines engages with First Nation, municipal, territorial, and federal governments on behalf of the exploration, mining, and service and supply industries.