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Pretium Resources Inc. Feb. 26 said it is ramping up underground development and exploration at Brucejack, a high-grade gold mine in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. The company reached commercial production at Brucejack in mid-2017 and the operation produced 152,484 ounces of gold during the first six months of operation. This roughly 305,000-oz-per-year pace is despite the fact that lower grade was fed into the mill early on. While the mill has outperformed its...
Goliath Resources Ltd. Feb. 26 said it has outlined drill-ready targets at the newly discovered Prosperity Bullseye zone at the Lucky Strike property in northwestern British Columbia. The 2,400- by 3,400- meters Prosperity Bullseye zone is surrounded by two prolific placer gold creeks that produced up to 6-ounce nuggets. The source of the placer gold is believed to be attributed to erosion of gold mineralized bedrock from the immediate area. Soil sampling over a 2,000- by...
China Minerals Mining Corp. Feb. 26 announced plans to evaluate the content and potential recovery of gold from tailings of the historical Erickson Mine on its Cassiar gold property in northwestern British Columbia. The 140,470-acre (56,846 hectares) Cassiar property hosts the past producing Main (formerly Erickson), Cusac, Bain, Taurus, Sable, Plaza and Vollaug hardrock mines that produced 350,651 ounces of gold. Most of this aurum, roughly 315,000 oz, was recovered from a 300-metric-ton-per-day plant that operated at...
Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. Feb. 23 announced a slight bump in the resource for its Pebble copper-gold-molybdenum-silver deposit in Southwest Alaska. The Pebble deposit now hosts 6.46 billion metric tons of measured and indicated resource averaging 0.4 percent (56.9 billion pounds) copper, 0.34 grams per metric ton (70.6 million ounces) gold, 240 parts per million (3.4 billion lb) molybdenum and 1.7 g/t (344.6 million oz) silver. Additionally, this world-class deposit...
The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration Feb. 22 announced that nearly 1,500 MSHA inspectors will be equipped with new tablets aimed at streamlining the mine inspection process. Known as the Mobile Inspection Application System, the Windows-based tablets replace an 18-year-old system that required mine inspectors to carry bulky laptops, cameras, reference material, and documentation from previous inspections. These new semi-ruggedized Wi-Fi-capable...
North Arrow Minerals Inc. Feb. 28 reported the recovery of 64.25 carats of commercial sized (larger than 1 millimeter) diamonds from a 209.8-metric-ton mini-bulk sample collected from the Q1-4 kimberlite at the Naujaat project in Nunavut. The three largest recovered diamonds from the sample are 5.25, 2.09 and 1.06 carats. Yellow diamonds, representing a range of hues and tones, made up 10.7 percent of the diamonds recovered by stone count and 21.2 percent by carat weight....
Alaska's rich mineral endowment helped propel the Last Frontier into the top ten on the Fraser Institute's Survey of Mining Companies 2017. To gather information for its report, the Fraser Institute asks mining executives to rank the mineral potential and mining policies of mining jurisdictions around the globe. The Canada-based think-tank compiles this data into the "Investment Attractiveness Index", a measure that weighs mining executives' perceptions of both the mineral...
White Rock Minerals Ltd. Feb. 27 said it is gearing up for the start of a spring exploration program at Red Mountain, a zinc-rich volcanogenic massive sulfide project in Interior Alaska. "The company is very excited about the potential for its globally significant high-grade zinc VMS project at Red Mountain," said White Rock CEO Matt Gill. Last year, the company reported a maiden resource of 16.7 million metric tons averaging 4.1 percent (1.49 billion pounds) zinc; 1.7...
Constantine Metal Resources Ltd. Feb. 27 said it has initiated a metallurgical test program to determine if a marketable barite concentrate can be produced as a co-product from the Palmer copper-zinc-gold-silver project in Southeast Alaska. In a report published earlier this year, the U.S. Geological Survey named barite among 23 minerals considered "critical" to the economic and national security of the United States. Palmer hosts a volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposit...
Alaska Department of Natural Resources Feb. 23 announced that it has filled two key positions important to the state's mining sector. Faith Martineau has joined the Alaska Department of Natural Resources as executive director of the department's Office of Project Management and Permitting (OPMP), which coordinates the review of larger scale projects in Alaska. Large-scale mining, oil and gas, transportation and alternative energy projects typically impact multiple agencies and...
