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The Pebble Partnership and ASRC Energy Services, a subsidiary of Arctic Slope Regional Corp., June 13 said they will be working together to provide business development and mentoring services aimed at enhancing future contracting opportunities for Alaska Native village corporations with landholdings near the Pebble copper-gold project in Southwest Alaska. "Local stakeholder involvement in responsible resource development projects is important, and ASRC Energy Services is a leader in stakeholder engagement," said ASRC Energy...
Auryn Resources Inc. June 13 announced the start of a 25,000-meter exploration drill program at its Committee Bay gold project in Nunavut. This 14-week program is focused on making new discoveries by testing 12 to 14 high priority targets within five structural corridors across the 250 kilometers (155 miles) of the Committee Bay greenstone belt. These structural corridors were defined by Auryn's comprehensive regional till sampling programs conducted in 2015 and 2016. This rotary air blast drilling will be supported by...
American miners hailed President Donald Trump’s plans to slash the red tape holding back infrastructure projects in the United States as positive step in repairing the United States’ deteriorating roads, rails, ports, and airports – a move that could also bolster the industrial sector that would supply the sand, gravel, concrete, zinc, copper and other mined materials needed for the President’s proposed US$1 trillion infrastructure enterprise. “President Trump’s welcome ini...
Independence Gold Corp. June 8 said it has staked a 4,835-hectare (11,950 acres) property west of Dawson City and next to the Yukon-Alaska border. Known as Stinger, this property is situated at the headwaters Yukon's Sixtymile, a mining district that has produced more than 500,000 ounces of placer gold. The Stinger property benefits from access via a network of placer mining and prospecting roads that connects with the Top of the World (Taylor) Highway. The claims were acquired using a proprietary stream sediment dataset that...
Millrock Resources Inc. June 14 said it has entered into agreements to option its Willoughby and Oweegee Dome projects in the Golden Triangle region of British Columbia to Sojourn Ventures Inc., a Vancouver, B.C.-based exploration company. To earn full ownership of Willoughby, Sojourn must issue 1.84 million shares to Millrock over the next two years and complete C$2 million of exploration on the property over the next three years. For ownership of Oweegee, Sojourn must issue 2.3 million shares over the next two years and...
Trilogy Metals Inc. June 12 said a US$10 million exploration program is now underway at Bornite, a high grade copper deposit at the company's Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects in Northwest Alaska. Funded by South32 Ltd., a coal and base metals miner spun out of BHP Billiton in 2015, this program will include 12,000 meters of drilling focused on extending the copper mineralization last drilled by Trilogy in 2013. "We have waited three long years to be able to come back and drill at Bornite," said Trilogy President and CEO Rick Van...
Constantine Metal Resources Ltd. June 13 announced the start of a 7,000-meter drill program with two drills at the Palmer volcanogenic massive sulfide project near Haines, in Southeast Alaska. This is the first program under the newly formed Palmer joint venture between Constantine (51 percent) and Dowa Metals & Mining Alaska Ltd (49 percent). The majority of this year's drilling is dedicated to discovery of new mineral deposits. Palmer is host to numerous high-quality prospects with large hydrothermal alteration zones and...
Freegold Ventures Ltd. June 13 reported results from the first 11 holes of the oxide expansion drill program at its Golden Summit project about 25 miles north of Fairbanks, Alaska. In 2016, Freegold published a preliminary economic assessment that evaluates a 20,000-metric-ton-per-day operation at Golden Summit - a 10,000 tpd heap leach facility to process the oxide material and 10,000 tpd bio-oxidation plant for the sulfide material. The area being considered for mining hosts 61.5 million metric tons of indicated resource...
There have been numerous comparisons of President Trump to President Jackson in the news and elsewhere, some of which have not been flattering to either; however, it does seem reasonable to take a brief look at the past in order to make an educated guess about the future. First, the two men are extraordinarily different. Jackson was a war hero, despite the fact that his most noteworthy victory, at the Battle of New Orleans, took place after the War of 1812 was over. (Neither...
