The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
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Solstice Gold Corp. July 2 announced plans for its first ever drill program on the Nunavut (formerly Kahuna) project, a large property roughly seven kilometers (4.4 miles) east of Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd.'s Meliadine Mine. Solstice Gold was formed early last year, when Dunnedin Ventures Inc. spun out the gold prospective portions of its Kahuna diamond project. The portions of Kahuna retained by Dunnedin host more than 40 diamondiferous kimberlite targets. Following its...
Ascot Resources Ltd. June 27 reported that it is making significant headway towards its goal of resuming operations at its past producing Premier gold mine and developing new mines on its other properties near Stewart, a historic mining town at the southern gate of British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Ascot's landholdings in the Stewart area include Premier, a 100-square-kilometer (39 square miles) land package that hosts the past producing Premier and Big Missouri mines;...
Trilogy Metals Inc. July 3 provided an update on the US$18.2 million of activities being carried out this year across its roughly 353,400-acre Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects in the Ambler Mining District of Northwest Alaska. The largest portion of this program, in terms of dollars spent during 2019, is an 8,000-meter drill program aimed at upgrading and expanding the copper-cobalt resource at Bornite. At a cut-off grade of 0.5 percent, the open-pit portion of Bornite hosts 40.5...
Constantine Metal Resources Ltd. June 27 said a drill program aimed at expanding and upgrading the zinc-copper-gold-silver-barite resources at the Palmer project in Southeast Alaska is now underway. In early June, the company released a preliminary economic assessment for developing a mine at Palmer that is both economically robust and environmentally conscientious. The PEA looks at a 3,500-metric-ton-per-day operation at Palmer that would produce 1.07 billion pounds of zinc,...
Constantine Metal Resources Ltd. June 28 reported that recent resampling of historical core from the Johnson Tract gold property in Southcentral Alaska returned long zones of high-grade gold, along with zinc, copper, lead and silver. The results from this resampling are included in a technical report filed in advance of a July 25 meeting for shareholders to vote on Constantine's proposal to spin out Johnson Tract and the company's other gold properties into HighGold Mining...
Northern Cobalt Ltd. July 1 reported that metallurgical sampling of rock chip samples from its Snettisham project demonstrates the potential to produce a high-grade magnetite (iron) concentrate with vanadium credits, providing further confidence in the economic viability of this Southeast Alaska project. In June, the Australia-based company estimated that the mafic-ultramafic Alaskan zoned intrusive complex at Snettisham hosts 297 to 551 million metric tons of high-grade...
Support from the Yukon government and Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in First Nation is bolstering Golden Predator Mining Corp.'s plans to restart operations at its Brewery Creek gold mine about 55 kilometers (34 miles) east of Dawson City. During seven seasons of operation beginning in 1996, Viceroy Resource Corp. produced 280,000 ounces of gold at the Brewery Creek Mine. However, with gold prices averaging around US$310/oz in 2002, Viceroy opted to wind down operations and put Brewery C...
