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Gladiator Metals Corp. Sept. 26 announced the restart of drilling at the high-grade Cowley Park prospect on the company's Whitehorse Copper project in Yukon, Canada. "Gladiator is excited to recommence diamond drilling at the high-grade Cowley Park Copper Prospect. Over the summer, Gladiator's team has integrated surface mapping, historic drill hole datasets and planned regional geophysical surveys to identify potential controls on high-grade mineralisation within the...
Li-FT Power Ltd. Sept. 26 reported another batch of "consistently good" assays from its 2023 drill program at the Yellowknife Lithium project in Northwest Territories, including additional strong results from the BIG East pegmatite. Yellowknife Lithium consists of 11 properties that cover some of the most prospective targets within the Yellowknife Pegmatite Province, a 9,600-square-kilometer (3,700 square miles) area east of the NWT capital city. Li-FT has divided these proper...
PFS details a large nickel-cobalt mine with minimal net CO2 emissions at Turnagain project. With the completion of a prefeasibility study, Giga Metals Corp. and joint venture partner Mitsubishi Corp. are another step closer to developing a large nickel-cobalt mine with a low carbon footprint at the Turnagain project in Northern British Columbia. "We see a nickel project like Turnagain with low carbon intensity in a stable jurisdiction has a key role to play in the future of...
Trilogy Metals Inc. Sept. 27 reported that stream sediment and rock sampling has identified two zinc-enriched volcanogenic massive sulfide targets on the Helpmejack project toward the eastern end of the Ambler schist belt in Alaska. Lying about 110 miles southeast of the world-class Arctic VMS deposit being advanced by Ambler Metals LLC, a joint venture owned equally by Trilogy and South32 Ltd., Helpmejack is an area first identified as prospective for zinc and copper in the...
Sitka Gold Corp. Sept. 26 announced that drill hole 47, the fifth hole completed during the 2023 season, has produced the best gold intercepts drilled to date at its RC Gold project in Yukon, Canada. "Hole 47 is our best drill hole to date, returning 219 metres of 1.34 g/t gold including very significant sub-intervals such as 124.8 metres of 2.01 g/t gold and 14 metres of 5.53 g/t gold," said Sitka Gold CEO Cor Coe. Early in September, Sitka highlighted results from its first...
American West Metals Ltd. Sept. 26 reported that assays from three deep holes drilled at Storm confirm a new zone of near-surface, high-grade copper at the Thunder discovery, along with a large zone of deeper sediment-hosted copper mineralization associated with large gravity anomalies on this northern Nunavut project. The company's 2023 program involves reverse circulation drilling focused on defining a maiden Joint Ore Reserves Committee- (JORC) compliant resource around...
Thesis Gold Inc. Sept. 28 reported strong gold mineralization was cut in the first three holes drilled this year below the historically mined BV pit on the company's Ranch project in the Toodoggone mining district of Northern British Columbia. According to a historical estimate calculated in 1988, the BV zone contained 65,640 metric tons of resource averaging 9.81 grams per metric ton gold, at a cut-off grade of 3.5 g/t. Roughly 40,000 metric tons were mined from BV in 1991...
Osisko Metals Inc. Sept. 28 announced the next batch of assays from the 2023 drilling program at its Pine Point zinc-lead project in Northwest Territories, Canada, aimed at advancing it toward an updated resource estimate before the year is out. According to the most recent calculation, Pine Point hosts 15.8 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 4.17% zinc and 1.53% lead, plus 47.2 million metric tons of inferred resource averaging 4.43% zinc and 1.68% lead....
Canadian North Resources Inc. Sept. 26 announced initial assays from the 2023 definition drilling program on the company's Ferguson Lake nickel-copper-cobalt-platinum group metals project in Nunavut, Canada. According to a 2022 calculation, Ferguson Lake hosts 24.3 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 0.85% (455.4 million pounds) copper, 0.6% (296.3 million lb) nickel, 0.07% (37.5 million lb) cobalt, 1.38 grams per metric ton (1.08 million ounces) palladium,...
