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ZincX Resources Corp. June 19 announced the start of a 2,500-meter drill program at its Akie zinc project in northern British Columbia. Focused on the central high-grade core of the Cardiac Creek deposit, this drilling is targeting the initial five years of future mine production identified in a preliminary economic assessment completed in 2018. The PEA contemplates a 4,000-metric ton underground mine at Cardiac Creek providing ore for a 3,000-metric-ton-per-day mill that is...
Alianza Minerals Ltd. June 20 announced that Coeur Explorations Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of Coeur Mining Inc., has signed a letter of intent to explore the road-accessible Tim silver property in southern Yukon. Situated just 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) north of Coeur Mining's Silvertip Mine in northern British Columbia, Tim is an early staged exploration property with similar high-grade silver-lead-zinc mineralization. Historical chip sampling from a trench cut across a zo...
The Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys June 7 announced that it is seeking partners to share the costs and results of airborne magnetic and radiometric geophysical surveys planned to be flown this summer over the Yukon-Tanana uplands of eastern Alaska. The survey intends to gather data from a 5,236-square-mile (13,562 square kilometers) primary area extending roughly 125 miles (200 kilometers) east of Fairbanks; and, if funding allows, a 2,751-square mile...
With the four main deposit at KSM – Kerr, Sulphurets, Mitchell and Iron Cap – advanced to the mine feasibility stage, Seabridge Gold Inc. June 18 said it is focusing its 2019 exploration program on discovery targets beyond the vast copper-gold resources delineated so far across this property in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. The four KSM deposits host 2.98 billion metric tons of measured and indicated resources averaging 0.52 grams per metric ton (49.7 million oun...
Triumph Gold Corp. June 18 announced the start of a drill program targeting a buried copper-gold porphyry target that has not been previously tested by drilling at the Freegold Mountain project in the Yukon. Triumph has identified numerous near-surface porphyry gold-copper targets and deposits over a six-kilometer (3.7 miles) stretch of Freegold Mountain. The two most advanced deposits along this trend are Nucleus and Revenue. The Nucleus deposit hosts 74.74 million metric...
Sabina Gold & Silver Corp. June 19 reported initial results from a roughly 6,400-meter spring drill program recently completed at the Back River gold project in Nunavut. The eight holes drilled at Back River this spring targeted three areas at Goose property, one of seven properties that make up Sabina's larger Back River project. A 2015 feasibility study details plans for developing a mine at Goose that is expected to average 198,100 ounces of gold annually over an 11.8-year...
White Gold Corp. June 19 announced the start of a 17,000-meter core drill program on three of its properties in the Yukon – JP Ross, White Gold and QV. "The goal of this diamond drill program is threefold: to continue to expand Golden Saddle-Arc's established resources, to follow up on JP Ross's exciting high-grade Vertigo discovery last season and to grow the recently acquired and underexplored VG deposit," said White Gold Corp. CEO David D'Onofrio. The diamond core d...
Nova Minerals Ltd. June 21 announced the start of drilling at the Oxide gold prospect on the Estelle project about 100 miles northwest of Anchorage, Alaska. The Australia-based explorer plans to complete 5,000 meters of drilling in two phases. The second phase will be decided by the 2,500-meter phase-1 results. "It's great to be back drilling at the district-scale Estelle gold project," said Nova Minerals Managing Director Avi Kimelman. "A great deal of work has gone into...
Auryn Resources Inc. is gearing up test intriguing drill targets that artificial intelligence has generated on the Committee Bay gold project in Nunavut. "We are looking forward to turning the drills again at Committee Bay and to offer our shareholders the possibility of a major high-grade gold discovery using cutting-edge artificial intelligence applications," said Auryn Resources Executive Chairman Ivan Bebek. At roughly 390,000 hectares (964,000 acres) Committee Bay is a...
