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Copper Fox Metals Inc. March 3 announced plans for a C$3.4 million 2021 program for Schaft Creek that is slated to include a 4,000-meter metallurgical and geotechnical drill program at this advanced copper-gold-molybdenum-silver project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. "The proposed 2021 program is focused on confirming value add opportunities identified over the past two years at Schaft Creek," said Copper Fox Metals President and CEO Elmer Stewart. "The work plan...
Victoria Gold Corp. March 1 announced that it estimates between 180,000 and 200,000 ounces of gold production at Eagle Mine during 2021, the first full year of commercial production at the newly established Yukon operation. Reaching commercial production on July 1, Eagle Mine produced 116,644 oz gold during 2020, which included 38,896 oz recovered during non-commercial production over the first six months of the year. During the first three months of commercial production,...
Golden Predator Mining Corp. and Viva Gold Corp. have agreed to a merger that will bring two advanced stage gold mine projects – Brewery Creek in the Yukon and Tonopah in Nevada – under one roof. "This transaction brings together all of the key ingredients required to build a premier junior gold producer – two advanced stage gold development projects ready for permitting and development, exploration upside, excellent mining jurisdictions, strong management skillsets, a solid...
ATAC Resources Ltd. is focusing its 2021 mineral exploration program on the East Goldfield project in Nevada, a departure from more than a decade of primarily exploring its district-scale Rackla Gold property in the Yukon. Late last year, the Yukon government rejected ATAC's application to build a 65-kilometer (40 miles), private tote road that would have supported advanced exploration and potential mine development at Rau, the westernmost of three projects that make up the ex...
This article originally appeared in the March 3, 2021 edition of Metal Tech News, a Data Mine North LLC publication focused on mining technologies and technology metals. To find out more, visit the Metal Tech News website at www.metaltechnews.com. A dinner conversation between two highly successful Canadian businesswomen led to the creation of Onyen – a powerful, affordable, and easy to use ESG reporting solution designed specifically to meet the needs of junior and m...
Benchmark Metals Inc. March 3 announced plans to explore several precious metal discovery targets across the wider Lawyers property in Northern British Columbia. A road accessible property about 45 kilometers (28 miles) northwest of the Kemess gold-copper porphyry deposit, Lawyers is home to a small underground mining operation that produced 171,200 ounces of gold and 3.6 million oz of silver over a four-year period beginning in 1989. Benchmark has identified additional...
Nighthawk Gold Corp. March 1 reported significant increases to all resource categories at its Indin Lake gold property in Northwest Territories. According to the latest calculation, Indin Lake hosts 38.7 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 1.81 grams per metric ton (2.25 million ounces) gold, a 35% increase over the 2020 resource estimate, and 11.5 million metric tons of inferred resource averaging 2.13 g/t (790,000 oz) gold, a 60% increase over last year. The...
Heliostar Metals Ltd. March 1 announced that its 2020 drilling tapped gold mineralization between the historic Apollo-Sitka Mine on its Unga project in Southwest Alaska. Alaska's first hardrock gold mines, Apollo and Sitka produced roughly 150,000 oz of gold from high-grade epithermal veins from 1886 until around 1922, when the high-grade gold ore transitioned to more base metals-dominant mineralization. Despite historic exploration shafts demonstrating the vein continued...
