The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
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Regional exploration makes near-deposit discoveries and confirms the much larger potential of high-grade copper project. American West Metals Ltd. Nov. 25 reported that its 2024 greenfield exploration has discovered and confirmed five copper prospects spanning the 68-mile- (110 kilometers) long mineralized belt covered by its district-scale Storm copper property on Somerset Island, Nunavut. "The regional exploration work during 2024 has re-affirmed the large-scale greenfield... Full story
Honored for reclamation and cleanup efforts for two years running. For the second consecutive year, Snowline Gold Corp. has been awarded the Robert E. Leckie Award for Excellence in Environmental Stewardship. Presented by the Government of Yukon during the 2024 Yukon Geoscience convention in Whitehorse, this acknowledgment highlights the company's dedication to progressive reclamation and the cleanup of historical remnants near its flagship Rogue project. "We are grateful and... Full story
First diamond drilling at Rhosgobel returns high-grade gold intercepts. Sitka Gold Corp. Nov. 25 announced a standout 119-meter intercept averaging 1.05 grams per metric ton gold from its first-ever diamond drilling at the Rhosgobel intrusion, a result that hints at the growing scale and depth of the gold system at its RC Gold project in Yukon, Canada. Located just five kilometers (three miles) south of the flagship Blackjack deposit, Rhosgobel became part of Sitka's holdings... Full story
Samples with up to 128.5 g/t gold were collected from Muddy Creek prospect at Estelle. Nova Minerals Ltd. Nov. 27 reported that a sampling program carried out this year has doubled the size of the high-grade gold zone at Muddy Creek, an exploration target that is part of a larger trend of gold, silver, copper, and antimony mineralization in the southeastern portion of the company's district-scale Estelle project in Alaska's West Susitna Minerals District. Lying roughly 100 mil... Full story
Inaugural drill program indicates larger porphyry copper-gold system at the Northern B.C. project. Pacific Ridge Exploration Ltd. Nov. 27 reported that its 2024 drilling at Chuchi cut some of the highest copper and gold values ever encountered on the project roughly 35 kilometers (19 miles) northwest of Centerra Gold's Mount Milligan copper-gold mine. The more than 16,000-hectare (39,500 acres) Chuchi property hosts several compelling exploration targets along a six-kilometer-... Full story
Drill cuts new strata that widens uranium zone on company's Aberdeen project in Nunavut. Forum Energy Metals Corp. Nov. 26 reported that its initial batch of results from its 2024 drill program at Aberdeen has encountered a new high-grade lens that expands the width of uranium mineralization of the Tatiggaq West deposit on this project in Nunavut's Thelon Basin. "Drilling at Tatiggaq Main has intersected another parallel lense of high-grade uranium extending the width to 35 me... Full story
Silver47 encouraged by strength of silver-gold mineralization at western edge of Dry Creek. Silver47 Exploration Corp. Nov. 26 continued to make its presence known on the Alaska mineral exploration scene with another batch of assays from drill holes that cut strong silver and zinc mineralization at the Dry Creek deposit on the company's Red Mountain volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) project about 60 miles (100 kilometers) south of Fairbanks. Following its Nov. 14 listing on t... Full story
Tsetsaut Skii km Lax Ha contends it was not adequately consulted prior to B.C. issuing "substantially started" status to Seabridge's proposed copper mine. The Tsetsaut Skii km Lax Ha (TSKLH) has filed a petition to challenge the British Columbia's "substantially started" determination for Seabridge Gold Inc.'s KSM copper-gold mine project in Northern B.C., a status that ensures that a previously approved environmental assessment certificate (EAC) remains in effect for the life... Full story
