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Pretium Resources Inc. May 2 reported that its Brucejack Mine in northwestern British Columbia produced 79,180 ounces of gold during the first three months of 2019. While mill throughput has increased at Brucejack, the ore grades are lower compared to recent quarters. During the first three months of 2019, the mill processed 295,122 metric tons of ore, or an average of 3,279 metric tons per day. The average grade of the ore fed into the mill was 8.7 grams per metric ton gold....
Osisko Metals Inc. May 1 reported assay results for an additional 100 holes drilled into X-65, a resource area within the North Zone of the Pine Point zinc project about 42 kilometers (26 miles) east of Hay River, Northwest Territories. Cominco Ltd. (now Teck Resources) mined zinc-lead ore from a series of 50 surface and underground deposits along a 60-kilometer (37 miles) corridor at Pine Point from 1964 to 1988. Osisko has identified four zones along this corridor – East M...
Golden Predator Mining Corp. April 30 announced an agreement with Franco Nevada Corp. to eliminate the net smelter royalty on the gold recovered from a future mine at Golden Predator's Brewery Creek mine project about 55 kilometers (34 miles) east of Dawson City. Brewery Creek is the site of a former mine where Viceroy Resource Corp. produced 280,000 ounces of gold from 1996 to 2002. This operation used a heap leaping – a method of gold recovery that involves staking ore in a...
TMAC Resources Inc. May 1 announced continued improvements at its Doris Mine, resulting in the first positive earnings for this gold operation on the company's Hope Bay property in Nunavut. The 40,050 ounces of gold produced at Doris during the first quarter of this year is nearly an 18 percent increase over the previous production record of 34,080 oz set during the final three months of 2018. While 1,610 metric tons per day average mill throughput during the first quarter was...
As the Pebble Limited Partnership advances the Pebble copper-gold-molybdenum project through the permitting process, environmental groups opposed to the proposed mine are employing a wide arsenal of tactics to impede the progress. In its latest volley, Earthworks, an environmental non-governmental organization (ENGO), has requested that the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigate whether Northern Dynasty...
Decade Resources Ltd. May 2 announced results from sampling completed at its recently acquired Crest gold property near the town of Hyder in Southeast Alaska. Lying just across the border from British Columbia's Golden Triangle region, the Crest property is adjacent to Ascot Resources' Premier gold-silver mine property on the Canadian side of the border. Due to the lack of snow at lower elevations in the Stewart-Hyder area in December, Decade was able to carry out preliminary...
Ascot Resources Ltd. April 24 announced the start of a 15,000-meter drill program at its Premier gold-silver project near Stewart, British Columbia. Ascot's landholdings in the Stewart area includes Premier, a 100-square-kilometer (39 square miles) land package that hosts the past producing Premier and Big Missouri mines; Silver Coin, an adjacent property that also provided ore to the mill at Premier; and Red Mountain, another gold-silver asset acquired from IDM Mining....
As the publisher of a mining newspaper that covers the North, I had two objectives for the Arctic Encounter Symposium – to cover the views of where mining fits into the Arctic and make new connections outside my normal circle of influence. I left the two-day gathering in Seattle with something much more valuable – a glimmer of hope for the Arctic and humanity. Born in the Land of the Midnight Sun and raised under the Northern Lights, I grew up believing that the Arctic (or in...
