The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
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The United States Forest Service has given Ucore Rare Metals Inc. the green light to complete a field program that will generate the data engineers need to complete a plan of operations and feasibility study for the Bokan-Dotson Ridge rare earth element project on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska. Ucore plans to deliver these advanced engineering studies to the U.S. Forest Service, providing the regulatory agency with the information to initiate a National Environmen...
Having enjoyed one of the warmest and driest summers on record, most of Alaska is now paying the piper as unseasonably cold and in many areas, snowy, weather takes hold of the state. With the termination dust come news that is both good and bad, a common theme in what is turning out to be a year of significant cutbacks for exploration, development and production plans. Earlier in 2013, I summarized the expected decrease in exploration expenditures this year. Now that the bulk...
In August, according to all indications, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Crimes Task Force conducted a series of raids on placer mining operations along the Fortymile River under extremely unusual and questionable circumstances. Despite the reticence of the agency to be forthcoming, these actions bear all the earmarks of an abuse of discretion by the Agency and beg for public scrutiny. The undisputed facts indicate that sworn EPA officers appeared fully...
The U.S, Forest Service Sept. 6 agreed to allow Hecla Mining Co. to expand its tailings facility at the Greens Creek Mine located in the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska, but only by a fraction of what the silver mining company requested. This middle-of-the-road decision underscores the challenges of managing the integrity of the United States largest forest, protecting the salmon and other habitat found there; while allowing local residents, Alaska and the nation...
Young people working on mining projects in Yukon Territory are nothing new. But young people in charge, running the show at some of the most exciting mining projects in Canada's Far North? That's different and was noticeable in several camps during the 2013 field season. Whether in grassroots exploration, at advanced projects or in producing mines, a new generation of 30-something and even younger professionals, appears to be taking the lead in the Yukon. The trend even extends beyond mining to government, where Currie...
Kennady Diamonds Inc. is wrapping up what its management describes as a very successful 2013 exploration season at its Kennady North Project located immediately north and west of the Gahcho Kué Joint Venture where De Beers Canada (51 percent) and Mountain Province Diamonds Inc. (49 percent) in Northwest Territories about 280 kilometers (174 miles) east-northeast of Yellowknife. The Gahcho Kué JV is currently working to develop the world's largest and richest diamond mine. The 13 leases and claims covering about 12,356 h...
An exploration gamble undertaken in southern Nunavut in late 2010 by Northquest Ltd. is proving to be a good bet. The Toronto-based junior Sept. 4 reported results from three holes drilled in the Vickers Target on the Pistol Bay Gold Project in Nunavut, including 158.4 meters averaging 3.46 grams per metric ton gold from 9.95 meters depth in hole PB-13-03. Two intervals of high-grade mineralization were encountered including 16 meters averaging 9.47 g/t gold at 17.51 meters depth and 18 meters averaging 11.33 g/t gold at...
After spending more than half a billion dollars to take the Pebble Project to the cusp of permitting, Anglo American plc has pulled out of The Pebble Limited Partnership, an alliance it forged six years ago with junior Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. to gain a 50 percent stake in one of the largest copper-gold-molybdenum deposits on the planet. According to the most recent published resource estimate, Pebble contains 80.6 billion pounds of copper, 107.4 million ounces of gold...
Like many ideas conceived on the back of napkin, the hottest new mineral exploration innovation sweeping exploration camps in Yukon Territory this field season might have languished for years in a desk drawer, if not for the innate talent and tenacity of a young entrepreneur who came to Canada's North country from Ontario eight years ago and stayed on to make his home in the Yukon. The innovation, called "Geoprobe," is a small, track-mounted hydraulic drill designed to take soil and rock-chip samples from the soil-bedrock...
