The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
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Constantine Metal Resources Ltd. came out on the winning side of a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on a lawsuit brought by Southeast Alaska Conservation Council and others that challenged federal permits for road building on the company's Palmer zinc-copper-gold-silver-barite project near Haines, Alaska. "We believe the Ninth Circuit decided correctly on this matter and are pleased with the final decision," said Liz Cornejo, community liaison and advisor to Constantine...
Australia-based Nova Minerals Ltd. Aug. 31 announced it has plenty of cash in the bank to advance Korbel resource blocks A and B at its Estelle gold project in Alaska through the preliminary economic assessment stage and begin exploration of several nearby targets. Since the beginning of the year Nova has raised roughly A$15.8 million (US$11.7 million) through the exercise of 486.8 million options. "I would like to thank our shareholders for their continued support of Nova,"...
Golden Predator Mining Corp. Aug. 31 published an updated resource estimate to support a feasibility study that will provide details of a plan to re-establish gold mining at the company's Brewery Creek project about 35 miles (55 kilometers) east of Dawson City, Yukon. The initial phase of Golden Predator's Brewery Creek mine restart plan involves reprocessing tailings from previous heap leach operations at Brewery Creek and mining of new oxide gold mineralization to process on...
Fortune Minerals Ltd. Sept. 3 announced the start of a geophysical program to further delineate expansion drill targets east of the company's Nico gold-cobalt-bismuth-copper deposit in Canada's Northwest Territories. Nico currently hosts 33.1 million metric tons of proven and probable reserves averaging 0.11% (82 million pounds) cobalt, 0.14% (110 million lb) bismuth, 0.04% (27 million lb) copper and 1.03 grams per metric ton (1.1 million ounces) gold. Fortune has evidence...
Sabina Gold & Silver Corp. Sept. 3 reported strong gold intercepts in two additional holes drilled into the upper portions of the high-grade corridor at Umwelt Underground on the company's back river gold project in Nunavut. The best intercept came in hole 20GSE575C, which cut 32.2 meters averaging 19.89 grams per metric ton gold, including an 8.2-meter bonanza grade section averaging 51.5 g/t gold. "The assay results from drill hole 20GSE575C rank as one of the best ever...
Tectonic Metals Inc. has cut a deal with Doyon Ltd. that significantly expands its gold exploration properties in Alaska's Goodpaster Mining District and strengthens its mutually beneficial partnership with the Interior Alaska Native regional corporation. "We are committed to our goal of finding the next Alaskan gold mine and providing economic and social benefits to the communities in which we work and operate," said Tectonic Metals President and CEO Tony Reda. Under an agree...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has created a new office specifically focused on issues unique to the American West, including clean-up of legacy hardrock mine sites. Headquartered in Lakewood, Colo., this new Office of Mountains, Deserts and Plains has been established to improve EPA's ability to respond to the range of special issues and unique needs associated with Western mining sites in EPA regions six through 10, which covers all states west of the Mississippi...
