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As another signal foreshadowing the growing demand for graphite, the Pentagon has added this lithium-ion battery ingredient to its newest National Defense Stockpile Acquisitions List. Published by the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency on Oct. 4, this list calls for DLA's strategic materials department to acquire up to 900 metric tons of graphite to store in government stockpiles over the coming year. Primary reasons for the Department of Defense to have a graphite stash for its ow...
Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. Oct. 4 reports that it has concluded its 2021 field program at the company's Pebble copper-gold-molybdenum-silver project in Southwest Alaska. The principal focus of this year's program entailed: • The continuation of select environmental baseline studies. • Site care and maintenance, including the Pebble project site, and other facilities located within Iliamna. • The demobilization and removal of facilities and equipment no longer requi...
HighGold Mining Inc. Oct. 6 reported a 6.4-meter-wide intercept of bonanza grade gold and silver in the first hole it has ever drilled at Difficult Creek, an exploration target about 2.5 miles (four kilometers) northeast of the JT deposit on the company's Johnson Tract project in Alaska. According to an early 2020 calculation the JT deposit hosts 2.14 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 6.07 grams per metric ton (417,000 ounces) gold, 5.8 g/t (397,000 oz)...
The Government of the Northwest Territories Oct. 4 announced that it has partnered with the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency (CanNor) to provide an additional C$500,000 in funding support for mineral exploration projects in the territory. "The NWT is a resource-rich territory and mining is the biggest source of private-sector jobs and income for our residents. To help industry bounce back from the setbacks of the COVID-19 pandemic and to restore levels of...
Ucore Rare Metals Inc. Oct. 7 announced that it has entered into a memorandum of agreement with Alaska's Southeast Conference for the evaluation and potential establishment of a Natural Resource Development Complex that would host Ucore's planned Alaska Strategic Metals Complex, a facility for processing rare earth elements and other critical minerals. "The establishment of the MOA between Ucore and Southeast Conference is an important moment in the development of the Alaska S...
Leveraging its expertise in exploring for Arctic-type volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits in the Ambler Mining District, Trilogy Metals Inc. exploring for similar high-grade polymetallic deposits on three groups of claims east and west of the Upper Kobuk Mineral Project in Northwest Alaska. Being advanced by a joint venture equally owned by Trilogy and South32 Ltd., UKMP is a 427,690-acre land package that includes state and patented claims covering a 75-mile-long stretch...
Whitehorse Gold Corp. Oct. 5 reported bonanza-grade gold and silver results from a step-out drill hole on its Skukum gold and silver project in southern Yukon. Situated about 55 kilometers (34 miles) south of Whitehorse, the Skukum project hosts 1.33 million metric tons of indicated resource containing 274,544 ounces of gold and 5.36 million oz of silver; plus 1.11 metric tons of inferred resource containing 223,873 oz of gold and 1.91 million oz of silver. The bulk of this...
Skeena Resources Ltd. Oct. 4 announced that it has begun a second phase of drilling at the Albino Waste Facility on its Eskay Creek gold-silver project in the Golden Triangle of Northern British Columbia. The waste material stored in this facility is from an underground mine operated by Barrick Gold Corp. from 1994 to 2008 that recovered roughly 3.3 million ounces of gold and 160 million oz of silver from ore with average grades of 45 grams per metric ton gold and 2,224 g/t...
PolarX Ltd. Oct. 5 reported that its 2021 core drill program at Caribou Dome discovered widespread zones of finely disseminated and vein-hosted native copper over a 1,200-meter-long corridor on this project in Alaska. Part of PolarX' larger Alaska Range property, Caribou Dome hosts 2.8 million metric tons of combined measured, indicated, and inferred resources averaging 3.1% (189.6 million pounds) copper in nine lenses of volcanic sediment-hosted mineralization. The Australia-...
