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Articles from the October 1, 2017 edition


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  • Meeting Pebble goals

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Jan 13, 2018

    Rolling into the final quarter, Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. remains confident that it will meets its ultimate 2017 goal of filing for the permits needed to develop a mine at the world-class copper deposit in Southwest Alaska by the end of the year. “We entered the year with three objectives: settlement with EPA; re-partnering; and then getting the project description filed with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers by the end of the year,” Northern Dynasty CEO Ron Thiessen tol...

  • Another round of Unga drilling

    Shane Lasley|Updated Jan 13, 2018

    Redstar Gold Corp. Sep. 21 announced the start of a fall drill program at its Unga project on the Alaska Peninsula. This planned 3,750-meter program will primarily target the expansion of the main Shumagin zone, a 2,000-meter-long subset of this 9,000-meter (5.6 miles) Shumagin structural trend, at depth and along strike to the northeast towards and at depth below the Bunker Hill gold zone. Additionally, the company is finalizing a review of additional priority drill targets...

  • Drills tap 5.85 oz/t gold at Klaza

    Updated Jan 13, 2018

    Rockhaven Resources Ltd. Sep. 26 reported the highest grade gold intercepts so far from drilling at its Klaza gold-silver property in southern Yukon. The company published results from another 21 holes of a 96-hole, 15,922-meter drill program completed at Klaza this year. Highlights from this drilling include 182 grams (5.85 ounces) per metric ton gold and 0.61 g/t silver over 0.61 meters, and 7 g/t gold and 7.12 g/t silver over 2.92 meters in hole 376; 4.18 g/t gold and...

  • New gold zone found near Eagle

    Updated Jan 13, 2018

    Victoria Gold Corp. Sep. 25 reported results are from the 14 exploration holes drilled at the Eagle Extension zone, a previously under-tested area immediately west of the proposed Eagle Gold Mine. Highlights include: 21.3 meters of 0.64 grams per metric ton gold starting at a depth of 50.3 meters; 64 meters of 0.52 g/t gold from 30.5 meters; and 26.7 meters of 0.76 g/t gold from 43.3 meters. Earlier this year, Victoria Gold had similar success in drilling Eagle West, another zone that had limited previous drilling about 200...

  • TerraX discovers new gold target

    Shane Lasley|Updated Jan 13, 2018

    TerraX Minerals Inc. Sep. 26 reported that its 2017 property-wide exploration program at its Yellowknife City Gold Project has discovered a new zone of high-grade gold mineralization a the Screamer Island target. Representative rock samples from wide zones of outcropping mineralization at Screamer Island, returned 27.9 grams per metric ton gold, 4.46 g/t gold, 4.15 g/t gold and 3.95 g/t gold. TerraX said the discovery at Screamer Island more than quadruples the strike length o...

  • White Gold expands Golden Saddle

    Updated Jan 13, 2018

    White Gold Corp. Sep. 25 reported that its first two reverse circulation holes drilled at Golden Saddle deposit on the White Gold property in the Yukon has extended the gold mineralization there. Hole 17RC-001 cut 32 meters of 3.98 grams per metric ton gold from a depth of 19.8 meters; and 17RC-002 cut 25.9 meters of 2.24 g/t gold starting at 13.7 meters. The company said these grades are consistent with results from nearby diamond drilling and extend the main zone at Golden S...

  • As winter rolls in, so do field results

    Curt Freeman, Special to Mining News|Updated Oct 1, 2017

    As the first snows of the coming winter began to fall at high elevations across Alaska, results of summer programs likewise began to trickle in from far-flung areas of the state. Meanwhile, second- and third-quarter production data began to show up and mining industry analysts released a series of reports covering a wide range of industry-wide trends. For example, SNL Metals and Mining Research released information on how long it takes to move a new discovery to production....