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Brixton Metals Corp. April 18 announced the start of its first phase of 2019 exploration at the Atlin Goldfields project in northern British Columbia. Over the past three years, Brixton has consolidated approximately 1,000 square kilometers (386 miles) of mineral claims covering most of the Atlin gold camp. This large land package, which extends east from the community of Atlin, blankets an area that has produced more than 600,000 ounces of placer gold over the past 120...
White Gold Corp. April 17 is testing expansion targets at its Vertigo gold discovery, marking the launch of a C$13 million exploration program this year on the company's 439,000-hectare (1.08 million acres) land package in Yukon's White Gold District. The Vancouver, British Columbia-based explorer is testing expansion targets at the road-accessible Vertigo discovery with a GT Probe, a track-mounted rig that drives a cased hole through the soil to collect a sample from the...
The United States Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) April 16 announced the availability of up to $400,000 in funding through its Brookwood-Sago grant program to support education and training to help identify, avoid, and prevent unsafe working conditions in and around U.S. mines. Brookwood-Sago grants focus on powered haulage safety – such as reducing vehicle-on-vehicle collisions, increasing seat belt use, and improving belt conveyor safety ...
Cantex Mine Development Corp. April 15 announced the start of a 2019 exploration program at North Rackla that is slated to include sampling, geophysics and 18,000 meters of drilling at this high-grade zinc-silver project in the Yukon. Following a successful drill program in 2018, Cantex raised C$15 million this spring to fund its 2019 exploration that will focus primarily on Massive Sulphide, a zone where last year's drilling encountered 3.2 meters of 40.2 percent zinc and...
Kinross Gold Corp. April 16 announced it is streamlining its senior leadership team by eliminating two senior vice presidents, including Lauren Roberts, who was general manager at Fort Knox before assuming the role of senior vice president and chief operating officer for the global gold mining company. "During his long and successful career at Kinross, Lauren was a relentless champion of safety and delivered many accomplishments, including achieving our annual production and...
By this time next year, Pebble Partnership could be holding the first of dozens of permits it will need to begin developing a mine at its enormous copper-gold-molybdenum deposit in Southwest Alaska, according to Sheila Newman, deputy chief of the regulatory division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Alaska District. The timing or issuance of permits, however, are not guaranteed – permitting a large mine in the United States is a long process. Newman said the testimony being gat...
Hecla Mining Company April 17 reported that its Greens Creek Mine in Southeast Alaska produced 2.23 million ounces of silver during the first quarter of 2019, a 17 percent increase over the first three months of 2018. The Southeast Alaska operation also churned out 14,328 oz of gold during the quarter ending March 31, which is up 9 percent compared to a year ago. The Idaho-based miner said higher ore grades and increased recoveries, partially offset by lower mill throughput,...
Coeur Mining Inc. April 11 reported a dip in gold production at its Kensington Mine in Southeast Alaska and an increase in silver, zinc and lead production at the Silvertip Mine in northern British Columbia. Kensington produced 29,973 ounces of gold during the first quarter of this year, which is down 15 percent from the 35,335 oz recovered at the Southeast Alaska mine during the previous quarter but up 15 percent from the 26,064 oz produced during the first three months of 20...
