The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
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Mining has a key role to play in self-reliance and prosperity. The Canadian and Nunavut governments kicked off 2024 with a historic devolution agreement that will transfer the management of lands and resources in Canada's largest territory in the hands of Nunavummiut (people of Nunavut). "With the signing of this agreement, we can now bring decision-making about our land and waters home," Nunavut Premier P.J. Akeeagok said during the January signing of the devolution... Full story
From critical mineral projects and renewable energy strides to the challenges of climate and infrastructure, 2024 was a year of transformation for NWT. Navigating both adversity and opportunity, 2024 marked a turning point for the Northwest Territories as it faced a balancing act – leveraging its rich mineral potential to drive economic growth while addressing the vulnerabilities of a warming climate and the logistical hurdles of developing remote, underfunded infrastructure.... Full story
Strategic reassessment of RC leads to record gold intercepts. Persistence and strategic exploration in Yukon's mineral-rich landscapes propelled Sitka Gold Corp. to new heights in 2024, as the company expanded its land holdings, uncovered high-grade mineralization, and identified promising new targets at its flagship RC Gold project, solidifying its position as one of the most ambitious players in the Tombstone Gold Belt. Holding an extensive portfolio of mineral properties... Full story
Nearly two years of continuous drilling culminate in maiden resource estimate. Propelled by the momentum of an ambitious 2023 exploration campaign, 2024 has been a transformative year for Li-FT Power Ltd. as it transitioned the Yellowknife Lithium Project in Northwest Territories, Canada from early-stage exploration to a promising maiden resource estimate. Acquiring its flagship Yellowknife Lithium Project in January 2023, Li-FT promptly began exploration activities. Situated... Full story
Toward its goal of unlocking the value of Estelle, Nova Minerals Ltd. is pulling together the final bits of information needed to complete a feasibility study for developing a mine at this gold and critical minerals project in Alaska’s West Susitna Mineral District. “Estelle is a major mineralized trend, hosting gold, antimony, silver, copper, and other critical elements and we are working to begin production as early as possible and operate for decades supplying the min... Full story
Alaska and Canada's North poised to deliver in the 21st century. As the United States wrestles to loosen China's grip on the global supply of critical minerals, there is a growing realization that Alaska and Canada's North host rich deposits of the elements essential to the energy transition, national security, and the overall economy. Antimony and graphite in Alaska, platinum group metals (PGM) and tungsten in the Yukon, cobalt and lithium in Northwest Territories, nickel...
Emerging as a new participant in exploring Canada's North, White Cliff Minerals Ltd. conducted extensive exploration across its properties in Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Focusing on historical mine sites and newly identified targets, the Australian-based company got off to a strong start in pursuit for energy and precious metals. With the acquisition of the Great Bear Lake project and the Coppermine River project in early 2024, White Cliff secured two highly...
Western Copper and Gold Ltd. spent 2024 preparing to advance its world-class Casino copper-gold project to the next level by strengthening its leadership and management, refining metallurgical testing and understanding, and realigning permitting timelines with evolving environmental and regulatory demands to ensure long-term project viability. The beginning of 2024 marked a strategic shift for Western, as the company focused on bolstering its leadership team to guide the...
Western Alaska Minerals Corp.'s 2024 exploration program at Illinois Creek focused on testing targets that lie between two established deposits at opposite ends of a roughly five-mile trend of carbonate replacement deposit (CRD) mineralization on this district-scale exploration project about 300 miles west of Fairbanks, Alaska. Over the previous three seasons, Western had focused much of its exploration on Waterpump Creek, a silver-rich CRD deposit at Illinois Creek. Based on... Full story
In 2024, Vital Metals Ltd. took significant steps to refocus its rare earths strategy at the Nechalacho project in Canada's Northwest Territories, advancing its world-class Tardiff deposit after a challenging year of restructuring and setbacks. Following a turbulent 2023 that saw the bankruptcy of its Canadian subsidiary and the abandonment of its rare earths processing facility in Saskatchewan, Vital Metals restructured its leadership and refocused on the larger, lower-grade...
Following the 2023 merger with Benchmark Metals Inc., Thesis Gold Inc. has focused on completing the exploration and engineering studies that will provide details of a mine that leverages the synergies offered by the neighboring Lawyers and Ranch gold-silver properties in Northern British Columbia's Toodoggone Mining District. "Starting in 2023, we set an ambitious goal to focus our exploration and engineering efforts on optimizing our project establishing a low-cost future pr...
In less than 18 months after listing on the Nasdaq with a $20 million initial public offering, U.S. GoldMining has more than doubled the amount of copper, gold, and silver in indicated resources within the namesake deposit on its Whistler project in the West Susitna Mineral district about 100 miles northwest of Anchorage, Alaska. "This 'trifecta' of commodities in the West Susitna is highly attractive at a time when all are currently experiencing strengthening commodity...
With the sale of its steelmaking coal business to Glencore for $7.3 billion in cash, Teck Resources Ltd. has shifted its focus to being a pure-play energy transition metals company focused on growth. The Vancouver, British Columbia-based mining company has reorganized its copper, zinc, and other energy transition assets in North and Latin America into two regional business units. The North American business unit includes the Highland Valley copper mine in Southern British... Full story
Amidst the growing demand for critical minerals, SPC Nickel Corp. made notable advances in 2024 at its Muskox project in Nunavut, Canada, uncovering exceptional nickel, copper, and platinum group metal (PGM) grades through a high-impact summer exploration program aimed at redefining the potential of this district-scale opportunity. Acquiring the Muskox project in 2021, SPC Nickel has been advancing its district-scale nickel-copper-PGM project, considered one of the last true...
As the largest producer of silver in the United States, Hecla Mining Company is well-positioned to be a reliable North American supplier of this precious metal critical to the transition to clean energy. Silver's criticality to the energy transition is primarily due to its use in solar panels, which require about 450,000 ounces of the highly conductive metal for every gigawatt of installed solar capacity. As a result, the 447 gigawatts of solar installed last year required... Full story
With financial backing from Northern Star Resources Ltd. in its pocket and a compelling scoping study under its belt, PolarX Ltd. is focused on expanding high-grade copper resources and optimizing mining plans for its district-scale Alaska Range project. Lying just north of the Denali Highway about 160 miles (250 kilometers) northeast of Anchorage, the 22-mile-long Alaska Range land package comprises three primary groups of claims – Caribou Dome, Senator, and Stellar. C...
In the world of gold exploration, a 100-meter intercept at one gram per metric ton gold is easily viewed as a major success. For Snowline Gold Corp., however, consistently surpassing this benchmark with 300-, 400- and even 500-meter intercepts – often at higher grades – is routine. As CEO Scott Berdahl put it, these results became "almost commonplace" in 2024 as Snowline's Valley deposit in Yukon continued to set new standards with each drill result reinforcing its gro...
While much of Seabridge Gold Inc.'s focus in 2024 was on forming a joint venture partnership with a major mining company with the wherewithal to develop a world-class mine at its KSM copper-gold-silver-molybdenum project in Northern British Columbia, the company continues to explore its four earlier-staged exploration projects in B.C., Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nevada. According to the most recent calculation, KSM hosts 153.9 million ounces of gold and 54.5 billion...
Building on years of groundwork, Osisko Metals Inc. made strategic progress at Pine Point in 2024 –advancing the project toward feasibility through a resource upgrade, finalizing design plans, and forging potential partnerships, all while positioning this historic zinc-lead district for future development. As part of its ongoing effort to revitalize Pine Point, an iconic zinc-lead district located on the southern shore of Great Slave Lake in Northwest Territories, Osisko M...
The July 8 pouring of the first gold bar from the Manh Choh Mine marked a new phase of roughly half-a-million-ounce-per-year gold production at Kinross Gold Corp.'s iconic Fort Knox Mine in Alaska. This new chapter for Fort Knox is the product of the global mining company's "Kinross Alaska" strategy – an initiative launched in 2020 to enhance gold production in Alaska by supplementing the primarily heap leach-grade ore mined from the Fort Knox property with higher-grade mill f... Full story
Now that Northern Star Resources Ltd. has the mill at Pogo outperforming its 1.3-million-metric-ton per year nameplate capacity, the Australia-based mining company is looking to build upon the 5.88 million metric tons of reserves averaging 8 grams per metric ton (1.52 million oz) gold at its Alaska mine and is looking to expand its presence in America's Last Frontier state. With the goal of ramping up gold production at Pogo to 300,000 oz per year, Northern Star invested in a...
Marking a transformative year, 2024 saw STLLR Gold Inc. solidify its position as a leading Canadian gold developer through a strategic merger, advancing its cornerstone Colomac and Tower gold projects, and fostering community partnerships to drive its sustainability initiatives. Announced in late November 2023 and finalized in early February 2024, the year began with a significant change as the merger between Nighthawk Gold Corp. and Moneta Gold Inc. brought together two...
The 2024 exploration season marked a transformative year for Klondike Gold Corp. as breakthroughs in geological understanding redefined the historic Klondike District, uncovering new high-grade gold zones and expanding major fault structures across its expansive Yukon property. Located about 20 kilometers (12 miles) southeast of Dawson City, the Klondike District Gold Project covers 727 square kilometers (280 square miles) of the legendary Yukon goldfields, an area known for...
Supported financially for another year by Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd., White Gold Corp. put the funding to good use, unveiling new discoveries, expanding district-scale targets, and achieving significant resource growth across its White Gold District in Yukon, Canada, further emphasizing the region's untapped potential. Located roughly 95 kilometers (59 miles) south of Dawson City, the White Gold District covers an expansive 350,000-hectare (864,869 acres) land package that...
With financial backing from the Pentagon, a loan offer from the Export-Import Bank of the United States, and an American automaker signing up to buy future supplies of graphite for the batteries powering its electric vehicles, Graphite One focused its 2024 work on collecting the final information needed for a feasibility study that will provide details of a complete mine-to-EVs graphite supply chain in the United States. The first link of this supply chain outlined in the... Full story
