The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
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Northern Star Resources Ltd. April 21 reported that COVID-related challenges continue to impact gold production at its Pogo Mine in Alaska. The underground gold operation about 85 miles southeast of Fairbanks, Alaska produced 41,494 ounces of gold during the first quarter of 2021, which is down about 22% from the 53,375 oz recovered during the final quarter of 2020. Northern Star says the drop in gold production is due to earlier impacts to the rate of underground development...
Strategic Metals Ltd. April 22 announced that it has granted Upper Canada Mining Inc. the right to earn up to a 70% interest in the Mount Hinton gold project in the Yukon. Upper Canada Mining is a privately held, Calgary, Alberta-based minerals exploration and mining company primarily focused on gold and silver. Mount Hinton is a good fit for such a company. Found along the southeast side of Alexco Resource Corp.'s Keno Hill Silver Mine property and about 22 miles (35 kilomete...
Heatherdale Resources Ltd. April 20 announced a significant change by renaming the company to Blackwolf Copper and Gold Ltd., which is now listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol BWCG. "Our name change to Blackwolf Copper and Gold better reflects the company's spirit and vision, particularly with consultation and inclusion with indigenous people," said Rob McLeod, president and CEO of Blackwolf Copper and Gold. "Growing up in the Pacific Northwest on the border of...
With a $13 million budget for predevelopment activities during 2021, a proposed road to the enormously metal-rich Ambler Mining District in Northwest Alaska takes another step closer to reality. This summer's work to prepare the proposed 211-mile industrial access road for a development decision will be funded equally by Ambler Metals LLC, which is working to develop the rich mineral potential at the road's terminus, and the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority,...
Administrative Law Judge Kent Sullivan from the Alaska Office of Administrative Hearings has proposed that there is no "reasonable assurance" that the Donlin Gold Mine in western Alaska will comply with Alaska's water quality standards. As part of the larger permitting process, the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation's Division of Water issued a certificate concluding that there is reasonable assurance that the proposed mine at Donlin will comply with the applicabl...
White Rock Minerals Ltd. April 21 announced the closing of a roughly A$8.8 million (US$6.8 million) financing, which will fund the Australian company's largest exploration program so far at the Red Mountain project in Alaska. The expanded 2021 program at Red Mountain will include three diamond drill rigs testing for both intrusive related gold at the Last Chance prospect and expanding up upon the high-grade silver-zinc-gold-lead volcanogenic massive sulfide mineralization at R...
Sabina Gold & Silver Corp. April 20 reported that the 2021 predevelopment and exploration programs are now underway at its Back River gold project in Nunavut. "We have a busy year planned at Back River for 2021," said Sabina Gold President and CEO Bruce Mcleod. "Camp is now up and running and we are looking forward to another successful year, accomplishing the necessary activities to continue to advance the project towards a production decision." The 2021 predevelopment work...
Banyan Gold Corp. April 21 said the final set of assay results from the 2020 drill program at its AurMac project in the Yukon continue to confirm the expansion potential of the near-surface Powerline gold deposit. "All of these final 2020 step-out diamond drill holes to the east of the Powerline deposit intersected gold mineralization and have demonstrated gold mineralization remains open in all directions – a further validation of the expansion potential of the n...
