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PolarX Ltd. Oct. 25 reported that an induced polarization geophysical survey has confirmed the potential of a buried porphyry copper-gold system at the Mars prospect on its Stellar property in Southcentral Alaska. Broadly spaced soil samples have outlined a 2,000- by 1,500-meter area of gold and copper mineralization at Mars and rock chip samples collected from this same area have returned assays of up to 7.4 percent copper and 1.8 grams per metric ton gold. Data from the IP s...
Baffinland Iron Mines Corp. Oct. 18 reported that it shipped record quantities of iron ore from its Mary River Mine in Nunavut to European and Asian markets in 2017. From Aug. 2 to Oct. 17, Baffinland shipped roughly 4.1 million metric tons of iron ore from its Milne Inlet Port to markets in Germany, the United Kingdom, and Japan. Fifty-six panamax vessels with an average of 72,600 metric tons of iron ore each shipped over 75 days, marking the largest shipping program by...
A former high ranking United States Army executive charged with acquiring and developing world-class equipment for U.S. soldiers under the Obama and Bush administrations warns that the lack of a domestic source for rare earth elements, or REEs, will be the Achilles heel of American military superiority. "Every one of the current and next round of super and unimaginable US weapons relies on REEs, an exotic assortment of 17 metals and elements, that are neither mined nor...
Auryn Resources Inc. Oct. 19 reported that drilling at Inuk, a prospect at its Committee Bay gold project in Nunavut, cut 25 meters of 1.15g grams per metric ton gold. This hole was drilled 400 meters away from an historical intercept of 12.6 meters of 16.04 g/t gold. "We are very pleased to have hit the broad intervals of consistent mineralization at our Inuk target," said Auryn Chief Geologist Michael Henrichsen. "We have extended the mineralized system by 400 meters to the...
Fireweed Zinc Ltd. Oct. 24 reported high-grade zinc intercepts from verification drilling in the Jason Main zone results at its Macmillan Pass project in eastern Yukon. The best intercept from this second batch of assay results from 2017 drilling at Jason include 13.1 meters of 13.24 percent zinc and 3.38 percent lead. Another hole cut 15.7 meters of 10.22 percent zinc and 1.95 percent lead. Another hole drilled at Jason earlier this year cut 7 meters of 12.16 percent zinc and 3.13 percent lead. The results from this year's...
ATAC Resources Ltd. Oct. 23 reported that a 12-hole drill program encountered high-grade gold at the Tiger deposit and Tiger East anomaly at Rau, a project located at the eastern end of the company's roughly 185-kilometer- (115 miles) long Rackla property in the Yukon. The 2017 program at Tiger focused on expanding the known sulfide and oxide resources within and adjacent to an open pit outlined in a preliminary economic assessment completed in 2016. Highlights from the 12 holes drilled this year include: 51.82 meters of 5.66...
Victoria Gold Corp. Oct. 23 reported 624.1 meters of 0.5 grams per metric ton gold was encountered across the entire length of the second hole drilled at Eagle Deep, an extension of the Eagle Gold zone at its Dublin Gulch property in the Yukon. This long intercept in this hole, DG17-922, included 371.1 meters of 0.65 g/t gold from 185.9 meters; 37.2 meters of 1.27 g/t gold from 249.8 meters; and 38.8 meters of 1.2 g/t gold from 468.3 meters. This is the second of four holes...
CopperBank Resources Corp. Oct. 23 reported results from two additional holes drilled this summer at the Pyramid copper project on the Alaska Peninsula. Hole DDH 17PY033, drilled in the Main zone of the Pyramid deposit, cut 300 meters of 0.53 percent copper, 0.12 g/t gold and 0.02 percent molybdenum. This hole was drilled 150 meters west of DDH 11PY016, a 2011 hole that cut 155 meters of 0.71 percent copper, 0.18 g/t gold and 0.018 percent molybdenum. CopperBank said the...
Alaska Department of Law Oct. 20 filed an appeal to the Alaska Supreme Court in Stand for Salmon v. Mallott, a lawsuit over the constitutionality of proposed ballot initiative 17FSH2, also known as the Stand for Salmon initiative. In September, Lieutenant Governor Byron Mallott declined to certify 17FSH2 because it made an unconstitutional appropriation of a state asset- anadromous fish and wildlife habitat- by initiative. The lieutenant governor's decision was based on an Alaska Department of Law opinion that the law...
Golden Predator Mining Corp. Oct. 25 reported that recent drill results have confirmed the continuity of the 1,600-meter-long Hearts-Clubs corridor at 3 Aces, a high-grade gold project in southeast Yukon. Highlights from the most recent assay results from reverse circulation drilling at Hearts-Clubs includes 19.81 meters of 3.32 grams per metric ton gold from a depth of 10.67 meters in hole3A17-203; and 4.57 meters of 9.3 g/t gold from a depth of 22.1 meters in 3A17-205. Golde...
StrikePoint Gold Inc. Oct. 23 announced that drilling has encountered gold and copper at Pluto, one of 22 Yukon mineral exploration properties the company acquired from IDM Mining earlier this year. Located in the Kluane region of southwestern Yukon, Pluto is an early stage exploration project where prospecting has identified skarn mineralization. The 2017 program at Pluto included 12 rotary air blast drill holes testing two targets - eight at Charon target and four at Hydra. Hole 17-CRN-01, the first hole drilled at Charon,...
