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Kutcho Copper Corp. July 4 named Sue Craig as vice president of community and environment, replacing Allison Armstrong who will be moving into an advisory role for the company. As a highly-respected professional geoscientist, Craig has worked in British Columbia and Yukon for more than 25 years on projects from the exploration and development stage to construction, production and mine closure. She successfully led the environmental assessment process for Novagold Resources'...
Aben Resources Ltd. July 5 announced that an initial 5,000-meter drill program is well underway at the company's 23,000-hectare Forrest Kerr gold project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. The initial focus of this planned 18-hole drill program is to expand the high-grade precious metal mineralization discovered in 2017 at the Boundary North zone, located near the center of the roughly 50-kilometer (30 miles) long Forrest Kerr property. Three holes, collared from the same...
Mountain Province Diamonds Inc. June 28 reported US$30.3 million in proceeds from its latest sale of diamonds from the Gahcho Kué Mine. This is the fifth sale of 2018 and the Toronto-based company has brought in US$137.4 million so far this year from selling its share of the diamonds from the Northwest Territories operation. Owned by Mountain Province (49 percent) and De Beers Canada (51 percent), the Gahcho Kué Mine began commercial production in 2017. Through the end of May,...
Nighthawk Gold Corp. July 5 reported that drilling has tapped new zones of gold mineralization at the Leta Arm project on the company's Indin Lake property in Northwest Territories. Situated about 16 kilometers (10 miles) southwest of Colomac, the four deposits and showings being drilled this year at Leta Arm – Diversified, Number 3, Lexindin and North Inca – could provide gold-rich satellite ore to a mine developed at Nighthawk's primary gold project on the Indin Lake pro...
Sabina Gold & Silver Corp. July 5 reported the start of a 10,000-meter summer drill program at the Goose Property on the company's Back River gold project in Nunavut Following a 6,000-meter spring program, the key focus of the summer drilling is to follow up on the previous success at the Umwelt "Vault" and the Llama Extension targets, as well as further testing of the Goose Main extension target (Nuvuyak). This drilling is complimented with a series of field exploration...
Ucore Rare Metals, Inc. July 3 announced the company representatives met with senior Trump Administration and Congressional officials in Washington, D.C. to discuss American dependence on the Chinese supply of critical materials, and Ucore's plans to develop a strategic metals complex in Southeast Alaska that would provide the United States a domestic supply of rare earth elements. "Near complete dependence on potentially unreliable foreign sources of rare earth materials...
White Rock Minerals Ltd. July 4 reported exceptional grades in the first two holes targeting the down plunge extension of mineralization in the Discovery and Fosters lenses of the Dry Creek volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit on the Red Mountain project in Interior Alaska. Hole DC18-77 cut 4.26 meters averaging 4.8 percent zinc, 2.3 percent lead, 1,435 grams (46.1 ounces) per metric ton silver, 2.2 g/t gold and 0.5 percent copper – this is the equivalent of 43.2 percent z...
Novagold Resources Inc. June 27 reported that the permitting to develop a mine at Donlin Gold project is nearly complete but the timing of the final go-ahead decision on whether to develop a world-class mine at this 39-million-ounce gold deposit in Southwest Alaska remains open. Novagold owns a 50 percent interest in Donlin Gold LLC, the company created to permit and eventually develop this enormous gold deposit, global gold miner Barrick Gold Corp. owns the other half. Since...
Among his final acts before resigning as administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt directed his agency's Office of Water to put together a proposal to update the regulations governing EPA's role in the permitting discharges of dredged or fill materials, including the elimination of the "preemptive veto" under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act. EPA's current interpretation of regulations on implementing CWA section 404(c) allows the agency to...
Alaska Gov. Bill Walker has called for a halt to an environmental review process aimed at determining whether a mine at Pebble can be developed in a way that protects the environment of the Bristol Bay region where the world-class copper-gold-molybdenum deposit is found. In a June 29 letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, also signed by Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott, Walker questioned the "readiness of the proposed Pebble project to move forward." The governor cited the lack of...
