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White Gold Corp. June 29 announced the launch of its 2020 exploration program, including drilling at Titan, a high-grade gold project on the Hen property about 70 kilometers (43 miles) southeast of Dawson City, Yukon. "We are very excited to kick off our 2020 exploration program," said White Gold CEO David D'Onofrio. "The fully funded program is designed to be focused and impactful starting with drilling the Titan anomaly identified late last year and to follow up on some of...
Sabina Gold & Silver Corp. June 30 announced it now holds all of the major authorizations to develop and operate a mine at its Back River gold project in Nunavut, Canada. A 2015 feasibility study details plans for developing a mine at Goose, one of seven properties that make up Sabina's larger Back River project. Ore from these deposits would feed a 3,000-metric-ton-per-day mill forecast to produce an average of 198,100 ounces of gold annually over an 11.8-year mine life....
StrikePoint Gold Inc. June 29 announced plans for an initial phase of 2020 exploration at its Willoughby and Porter properties near the town of Stewart in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Willoughby is an intrusion related gold-silver project similar to Ascot Resources Ltd.'s Red Mountain Mine project about seven kilometers (four miles) to the west. Historical drilling on the property encountered high-grade gold and silver mineralization in two zones – North and Wilby. H...
HighGold Mining Inc. June 30 announced the start of the 2020 exploration program at its Johnson Tract gold project in Southcentral Alaska. During the initial phase of this program, the company plans to complete 7,000 to 10,000 meters of diamond drilling to investigate five targets surrounding the property's JT deposit. "We are excited to launch on the first serious exploration drill program in 25 years at Johnson" said HighGold Mining President and CEO Darwin Green. According...
Grande Portage Resources Ltd. June 30 announced the start of an 18- to 20-hole drill program that includes resource expansion and exploration drilling at its Herbert Gold project in Southeast Alaska. Located about 16 miles north of Juneau, Herbert Gold hosts 1.88 million metric tons of indicated resource average 10.03 grams per metric ton (605,000 ounces) of gold; plus 553,429 metric tons of inferred resource averaging 14.15 g/t (251,700 oz) gold. This resource is contained wi...
Victoria Gold Corp. celebrated Canada Day with the declaration of commercial production at its Eagle Gold Mine in Canada's Yukon Territory. Since pouring the first bar of gold at Eagle last September, Victoria has been steadily scaling up operations at the Yukon Mine. With mining, crushing, processing, and maintenance operations performing at a high level, the exploration turned gold producing company declared commercial production. "Site activities continue to progress well,...
After a two-month suspension due to COVID-19, drills are once again turning at the Donlin Gold project in the Yukon-Kuskokwim region of Southwest Alaska. Donlin Gold LLC – a 50-50 joint venture between Novagold Resources Inc. and Barrick Gold Corp. – began gearing up for a roughly 22,000-meter drill program at Donlin in February and had drills turning on the 39-million-ounce gold project by March. With the novel coronavirus outbreak elevating to pandemic levels, the par...
Nearing the end of the federal permitting process, Pebble Limited Partnership is now taking a harder look at how residents and businesses in the Bristol Bay region can benefit from low-cost energy that will be available at a future Pebble copper-gold mine. When the proposed mine was designed for the Pebble Partnership, engineers built in more natural gas and electricity capacity than the Pebble operation would need with the idea that the excess could be delivered to the wider...
