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With its treasury full and a definitive exploration agreement with the Yellowknives Dene First Nation, Li-FT Power Ltd. has launched a 45,000-meter drill program aimed at unlocking the obvious but underexplored potential of the large pegmatites – igneous rocks with exceptionally large crystals that are the major global source of the lithium mineral spodumene – spanning its Yellowknife Lithium project in Northwest Territories. "We are thrilled to have started the drill pro...
Western Alaska Minerals Corp. June 5 announced that the 2023 drill program is now underway at the high-grade Waterpump Creek silver deposit on the company's Illinois Creek property about 300 miles west of Fairbanks, Alaska. First drilled by Western in 2021, Waterpump Creek is a carbonate replacement deposit (CRD) that hosted 166,000 tons of historical resource averaging 295 grams per metric ton silver, 16.1% lead, and 5.5% zinc. The last holes of the 2021 program, WPC21-09,...
Combination will consolidate two high-grade gold-silver projects in BC's Toodoggone Mining District. In a move that will merge two large gold projects in Northern British Columbia's Toodoggone Mining District, Benchmark Metals Inc. has entered into a deal to buy out Thesis Gold Inc. "The merger of Benchmark and Thesis will create a district-scale development and exploration project with significant growth potential," said Thesis Gold President and CEO Ewan Webster. The most...
First six holes cut greater than 1% copper grades in shallow zone on Nunavut project. American West Metals Ltd. June 6 reported that high-grade copper has been encountered in the first six holes drilled this year in the 4100N zone of the Storm project on Somerset Island in Nunavut, Canada. In May, the Australia-based mineral explorer reported that the first hole of its 2023 Storm Copper program, SR23-01, cut three zones of high-grade mineralization: • 15.2 meters averaging 1...
Sitka Gold Corp. June 6 announced the assay results for the second hole drilled during the company's planned 10,000-meter drill program expanding on its RC Gold project in the prolific Tombstone Gold Belt in Canada's Yukon. Consisting of a 376-square-kilometer contiguous district-scale land package, RC Gold is located near the newly road-accessible Clear Creek, Big Creek, and Sprague Creek districts in the heart of Yukon's Tombstone Gold Belt. Approximately 100 kilometers (60...
Grande Portage Resources Ltd. June 6 announced the start of its 2023 drilling program, which aims for 20,000 meters in 15 to 20 holes at the company's Herbert Gold project in Southeast Alaska. Located 25 kilometers (16 miles) north of Juneau, the Herbert Gold project is an exploration stage, high-grade, gold-mineralized mesothermal quartz vein system in the historic Juneau Gold Belt. According to a 2021 calculation, Herbert Gold hosts 3.64 million metric tons of indicated...
Fireweed Metals Corp. June 6 announced the start of a planned 16,000-meter drill program at Macmillan Pass in Yukon, Canada, which will be its largest-ever drill program with the goal of expanding the zinc-rich zones at its flagship property. "We are off to a great start and look forward to a game-changing season ahead," said Fireweed Metals CEO Brandon Macdonald. "We are on track to complete the largest ever drill program Fireweed has carried out at Macmillan Pass."...
