The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
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Northway Resources Corp. Oct. 21 reported that gold mineralization was encountered in all 10 reconnaissance holes completed during a maiden drill program carried out this year at the Healy project in Alaska's Goodpaster Mining District. Northway is a new mineral exploration company that completed an initial public offering and listing on the TSX Venture Exchange in August. At about the same time as the IPO, Northway began a maiden drill program at Healy, a discovery stage...
White Gold Corp. Oct. 24 reported that its regional exploration has encountered very high-grade gold in rock samples collected at Titan, a discovery on the Hen property and less than 15 kilometers (nine miles) northwest of the Vertigo discovery on the neighboring JP Ross property in Yukon's White Gold District. Titan was first identified with soil sampling by White Gold, including one sample that returned 113 grams per metric ton gold, the highest-grade of more than 400,000 so...
Skeena Resources Ltd. Oct. 22 said drills have tapped high-grade gold in newly identified mineralized horizon below the current resource at the Eskay Creek project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Skeena, which acquired Eskay Creek from Barrick Gold Corp. in 2017, is focused on expanding and upgrading near surface, high-grade gold resources that could be developed into an open pit mine. According to a resource calculated early in 2019, Eskay Creek hosts 12.71 million...
Seabridge Gold Inc. Oct. 21 reported that geophysical surveys, geochemical sampling and detailed mapping completed this summer has refined porphyry copper-gold drill targets at its Iskut project in northwestern British Columbia. "We believe we have identified a new, high value target that can be explored cost-effectively," said Seabridge Gold Chairman and CEO Rudi Fronk. The summer exploration program has identified a large intrusive system at relatively shallow depth that is...
PolarX Ltd. Oct. 21 reported that the encouraging porphyry copper mineralization encountered in the first hole at the Mars target on its Alaska Range property increased in intensity to the bottom of the hole. On Oct. 1, the Australia-based company announced that its Mars discovery hole, 19MAR001, cut roughly 300 meters of porphyry-style mineralization starting at a depth of about 5.3 meters. Today, the company said this visible copper and molybdenum mineralization increased...
Graphite One Inc. Oct. 23 reported that material from the company's Graphite Creek project in western Alaska is being tested by a major U.S. electric vehicle manufacturer. Earlier this year, Graphite One began shipping roughly 12,000 pounds of graphitic material from surface sampling at Graphite Creek to a United States-based industrial partner for processing into advanced graphite materials. This unnamed strategic partner has processed some of this material into...
Ucore Rare Metals Inc. has added two prominent technical advisors to a team it has pulled together to design a heavy rare earth element solvent extraction plant to be developed in Southeast Alaska. These advisors include SGS Canada, a testing and certification firm that has invested significantly in solvent extraction design and testing facilities, which includes an SX pilot plant at its facility in Lakefield, Ontario. Ucore said this pilot plant has the capacity to...
Osisko Metals Inc. Oct. 21 announced the results of the first 26 holes from the company's fall drill program at the Pine Point zinc project in Northwest Territories. Cominco Ltd. (now Teck Resources) mined zinc-lead ore from a series of 50 surface and underground deposits along a 60-kilometer (37 miles) corridor at Pine Point from 1964 to 1988. Over the past couple of years, Osisko drilled 1,031 holes in and around historical resource areas along two parallel trends at Pine...
