The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
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IDM Mining Ltd. Oct. 16 announced that it has two underground drills turning at the company's Red Mountain gold mine project near Stewart, British Columbia. According to June calculation, Red Mountain hosts 2.77 million metric tons of measured and indicated resource averaging 7.91 grams per metric ton (704,600 ounces) gold and 22.75 g/t (2.77 million oz) silver. In addition, the underground mine project hosts 316,000 metric tons of inferred resource averaging 6.04 g/t (61,400...
Kutcho Copper Corp. Oct. 18 said the latest round of drill results at its namesake project in northern British Columbia have confirmed the high-grade mineralization in the Main deposit and is providing material for metallurgical work needed to advance the Kutcho Copper project to the feasibility level. Located about 100 kilometers (60 miles) east of Dease Lake, the Kutcho property hosts three known Kuroko-type volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits along an east-west trend....
Triumph Gold Corp. Oct. 16 said that bedrock exposed from placer gold mining has revealed new copper-gold-zinc-lead showings in two streams cutting across the road accessible, Freegold Mountain project in the Yukon. One of these showings, Drone Zone, is exposed over a roughly 100- by 25-meter area in Mechanic Creek, about 500 meters east of high-grade drill intercepts in the Nucleus gold deposit and 500 meters west of the Keirsten Zone porphyry system. The Nucleus deposit...
White Gold Corp. Oct. 16 announced the discovery of Golden Saddle West, or GS West, a shallow zone of gold mineralization about 750 meters west of the Golden Saddle deposit on the company's White Gold property in the Yukon. The GS West target is found along a structural trend hosting several other targets, including the high-grade Ryan's Showing discovery announced in September. All three holes drilled this year at GS West cut Golden Saddle style mineralization, including 24...
Less than a month after closing a deal to acquire Pogo, Northern Star Resources Ltd. has published an Australian Joint Ore Reserves Committee- (JORC) compliant resource for this high-grade underground gold mine in Interior Alaska. According to the new calculation, Pogo hosts 8.8 million metric tons averaging 14.7 grams per metric ton (4.15 million ounces) gold. This includes 3.3 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 15.7 g/t (1.67 million oz) gold; and 5.48...
Grande Portage Resources Ltd. Oct. 15 said recent metallurgical testing shows excellent gold recoveries from samples of the mineralized veins at the company's Herbert Gold project in Southeast Alaska. Samples collected from two different veins at Herbert Gold – Deep Trench and Goat – returned higher than 97 percent gold recoveries using either gravity-floatation or whole-ore cyanidation gold extraction techniques. One sample taken from a 1.12-meter channel cut per...
Endurance Gold Corp. Oct. 16 reported that a grab sample from the Trout target on the company's Elephant Mountain project in Interior Alaska contained 23 grams per metric ton gold. This sample was collected during the company's 2018 exploration program that included rock sampling, trenching, soil sampling and geological mapping primarily at Trout, a target drained by two placer gold bearing streams in the area. Prior sampling at Trout has defined a gold-in-soil anomaly over...
Skeena Resources Ltd. Oct. 16 announced that Peru-based miner Hochschild Mining plc has entered into an option to earn a 60 percent interest in Skeena's Snip gold project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Hochschild is a leading underground precious metals producer focusing on high-grade silver and gold deposits. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Hochschild operates four underground precious metals mines – three in Peru and one in Argentina. "We are extremely p...
