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While Golden Triangle is an apt and easily marketable moniker for northwest British Columbia's incredible mineral endowment, Tahltan Territory more accurately and thoroughly encapsulates the rich deposits of copper, gold, silver, nickel, platinum group elements, and other metals for which this region has gained international renown. Extending east from the Alaska border to the Cassiar Mountain range and north from the Nass and Skeena Rivers into the Yukon, the roughly...
Since World War II there may not be a more urgent time to produce Alaska's rich mineral resources. Our nation's immediate defense needs and commitment to clean energy all require a healthy, vibrant mining industry to give our country the security of domestic critical mineral production and the bridge to future clean energy technologies. Crisis brings clarity, and quickly subordinates ideology to real-world practicality. Today we see our globe reeling under the actions of...
On April 12, 2013, Governor Sean Parnell signed into law Senate Bill 1, "An Act establishing May 10 of each year as Alaska Mining Day; and providing for an effective date" (Chapter 6, SLA 2013), sponsored by State Senator Cathy Giessel and thirteen other senators as well as nineteen members of the State House of Representatives, commemorating the enactment of the General Mining Law of 1872. This year, on the 150th anniversary of the General Mining Law, the Alaska Miners...
Seeking asylum from the persecution of the Klu Klux Klan, Peter Risby fled north to Canada with his family. In so doing, his upbringing would be one of adventure and survival in the harsh arctic lands of the Far North. There, he would be welcomed by the local Indigenes and become a bridge between the First Nations Cree people and the ever-encroaching westernization of European settling. Risby's true pioneering spirit, contributions to mining and exploration in Canada, as well...
Skeena Resources Ltd. March 30 announced plans to increase its landholdings in British Columbia's Golden Triangle by roughly sevenfold through the acquisition of QuestEx Gold & Copper Ltd., an exploration company that holds one of the largest land positions for mining in this region. QuestEx' 84,889-hectare (209,700 acres) land position is encompassed by nine projects in the Golden Triangle – KSP, Kingpin, Hit, Sofia, Heart Peaks, Castle, Moat, Coyote, and North ROK. Under an...
Kinross Gold Corp. March 29 announced plans to divest all its Russian assets, including its Kupol gold mine. Citing concerns about the destruction and loss of life being caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the gold mining company announced in early March that it had decided to suspend all activities at its gold projects in the Russian Far East. Kinross' Kupol Mine in the Chukotka region of eastern Russia produced 481,108 ounces of gold-equivalent, which includes the value...
Western Alaska Minerals Corp. March 29 said a new geological interpretation based on 2021 and historical data suggests that the historical and high-grade Waterpump Creek silver-zinc-lead deposit may be part of a belt of similar carbonate replacement deposits along a 6,000-meter-long corridor that extends to the Central Illinois Creek pit. Expanding Waterpump Creek and testing this belt are expected to be the primary targets of an initial 6,000-meter drill program slated to...
Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities March 25 announced that it will perform an independent analysis of the route between the proposed Manh Choh gold mine near the community of Tetlin and Kinross Alaska's mill at the Fort Knox mine north of Fairbanks, Alaska. Peak Gold JV – a partnership between Kinross Gold Corp. (70%) and Contango ORE Inc. (30%) – plans to truck high-grade ore mined at Manh Choh to the Fort Knox mill for processing. Utilizing the pro...
Newmont Corp. March 30 announced plans to acquire several blocks of mineral exploration claims in British Columbia's Golden Triangle for the support of land use planning in the Tahltan Territory. The Tahltan-BC Land Use Plan, which is based on the recognition of Tahltan title and rights within the nation's 96,000-square-kilometer (37,000 square miles) territory in northwestern BC, is expected to be one of the key tools that will inform land use decisions under a new...
On the heels of a productive exploration season in 2021 at the MacMillan Pass Project in Yukon Territory, Fireweed Zinc Ltd. has attracted additional capital from lead shareholders, including Australia-based Ibaera Equity Group and Teck Resources Ltd. The new infusion of capital – C$9.7 million in March and C$5.2 million in December – acknowledges the giant-sized zinc-lead-silver potential of the 940-square-kilometer package of mining claims now emerging in a fertile cor...
Grande Portage Resources Ltd. March 29 announced the remaining drill results from its summer and fall 2021 drill program at the Herbert Gold project in Southeast Alaska. These results will be added to the company's NI 43-101 mineral resource estimate. According to a calculation completed in May of last year, Herbert Gold hosts 3.64 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 10.23 grams per metric ton (1.2 million oz) gold and 5.87 g/t (686,700 oz) silver; plus 1.14...
