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Donlin Gold LLC partners Novagold Resources Inc. and Barrick Gold Corp. are more than 8,650 meters into a 20,000-meter drill program that will likely provide the final data needed for an optimized plan for a mine at the 39-million-ounce gold project in Southwest Alaska. "After the 2021 drill season, we anticipate that, on the completion of the updated geologic model and, subject to a formal decision by the Donlin Gold LLC Board, we will turn our attention to the upcoming...
Over the past quadrennial, there has been a great deal of conversation about "truth." Especially in the political arena. Ostensibly, the number of "lies" that have emanated from the mouth of the former President have run to the tens of thousands, if you happen to "believe" the Washington Post and other leading newspapers. Inferentially, one could conclude that politicians have a corner on prevarication; however, that is likewise demonstrably untrue. Where I went to high...
Enduro Metals Corp. June 30 announced that it has mobilized crews for a 10,000-meter drill program at the company's 654-square-kilometer (253 square miles) Newmont Lake gold-silver-copper project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. This fully-funded drill program has been designed to test the highest priority targets from extensive grassroots exploration and research since 2018. "The 2021 exploration season is an amalgamation of everything our technical team has learned...
A fleet of battery-powered Sandvik Z50 electric haul trucks charged with hydroelectric power will be hauling high-grade gold ore at Pretium Resources Inc.'s Brucejack Mine in Northern British Columbia. "Replacing our diesel-fueled fleet with zero-emissions electric haul trucks delivers significant environmental benefits and extends the advantages from our use of low-carbon hydro-electric power at Brucejack," said Pretium Resources President and CEO Jacques Perron. This...
Less than two months after ending its plans to merge with Viva Gold Corp., Golden Predator Mining Corp. has cut a deal to join forces with another junior advancing a gold mine in America's Southwest. In a deal announced on June 28, Golden Predator plans to merge with Arizona Gold Corp. to create Sabre Gold Corp., an emerging North American gold producer with the fully permitted Copperstone gold mine in Arizona and the past-producing Brewery Creek gold mine in Canada's Yukon....
Triumph Gold Corp. June 29 announced the start of a comprehensive exploration program focused on expanding and upgrading resources and developing zones of mineralization outside the deposit areas at its Freegold Mountain gold-copper project in the Yukon. "Through a focused review and rebuild of the Freegold Mountain project 3D model, the technical team has digested the entire data-room and designed a comprehensive, multi-tiered exploration program – a process that has a...
Tectonic Metals Inc. June 28 announced the start of 2021 drilling at Tibbs, a gold exploration project about 22 miles (35 kilometers) southeast of Northern Star Resources Ltd.'s high-grade Pogo gold mine in Alaska's Goodpaster Mining District. This year's program at Tibbs is currently slated to include the drilling of 3,000 meters of oriented core in two phases separated by a TITAN-24 geophysical survey. "Tibbs hosts some of the highest tenor gold anomalies in the Goodpaster...
