The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
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NCG: TSX-V President and CEO: John Williamson, P. Geol. Vice President and CFO: Sean Mager Vice President, Exploration: Peter Kleespies, M.Sc, P.Geol. North Country Gold Corp. was spun out by CBR Gold Corp. (now Niblack Mineral Development Inc.) in April with assets in Canada and Australia and C$4.7 million in working capital. The company is focused on advancing exploration and development of its Committee Bay and Baffin Island properties in Nunavut where it owns mineral rights to at least 225,569 hectares, or 557,323 acres o...
NFR: TSX Chairman and COO: Bill Harris President and CEO: Susan P. Craig, M.Sc., P. Geo. Chief Financial Officer: Glen J. Diduck, B.Comm. C.A. Northern Freegold Resources Ltd., founded in 2006, is a precious metals exploration and development company focused on the development of economic mineral resources at the district-scale Freegold Mountain gold and copper project in the Yukon Territory, and at a gold and silver property in Arizona. The Freegold Mountain Project is located in the Whitehorse Mining District about 70...
NTR: TSX-V President and CEO: Greg Hayes, CA Director: Lori Walton, M.Sc., G.G., P.Geol. Vice President, Exploration: Dennis Ouellette, B.Sc. Northern Tiger Resources Inc., formed in April 2008 in Alberta as a spin-off of Firestone Ventures Inc., is an Edmonton, Alberta-based resource exploration company focused on the rapidly developing Dawson Range gold-silver-copper mining district in central Yukon Territory. The company formed an exploration alliance with Capstone Mining Corp.'s subsidiary, Minto Explorations Ltd., and...
OCP: TSX-V Chairman: Paul Matysek CFO: Tony Ricci Senior Geologist: Chris Taylor Ocean Park Ventures Corp. spent US$6.2 million in 2010 to investigate the Chisna project, a 163,460-acre, or 661.5-square-kilometer, property in Interior Alaska that encompasses a cluster of porphyry copper-gold centers. In November 2009, Ocean Park entered into the joint venture agreement with International Tower Hill Mines Ltd. to earn up to a 70 percent interest in the Chisna project. Since that time Tower Hill has spun out Chisna into Corvus...
PGD: TSX Chairman & CEO: Eric Friedland President: Brooke Clements Vice President, Exploration: Peter Holmes Since 2002 Peregrine has focused on diamond exploration in northern Canada, acquiring varying interests in Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Manitoba properties. The company's primary exploration properties are the Chidliak and Qilaq diamond projects on Baffin Island and the Nanuq and Nanuq North diamond projects in Nunavut. The junior reported discoveries of diamond-bearing kimberlites on its 9,800-square-kilometer...
NIC: TSX President and CEO: David McPherson Chairman: R. David Russell Chief Consulting Geologist: Larry Hulbert Pure Nickel Inc., a junior with a portfolio of nickel and platinum group element projects in Canada and Alaska, is focused on exploring its Man nickel-copper-platinum group element project. Itochu Corp., which joined the project at the end of 2008, has agreed to invest as much as US$40 million to earn up to a 75 percent stake in the 290-square-mile-, or 750-square-kilometer, Interior Alaska project. The Japanese...
RG: TSX V/RMIOF:NASDAQ OTC/D4R: FE President and Director: Anastasios (Tom) Drivas Chief Financial Officer: Errol Farr, CMA Vice President, Exploration and Geologist: Thomas Skimming, P. Eng. Romios Gold Resources Inc., organized in 1995 in Ontario, is a Canadian exploration company actively engaged in precious and base metal exploration in British Columbia and Quebec with a primary focus on gold, copper, silver and molybdenum. Romios has acquired nine strategically located gold-copper properties between Nova Gold/Teck...
SBB.V: TSX-V President and CEO: Anthony P. Walsh, MBA, CA Senior Vice-President, Corporate Development: John Wakeford, P. Geo. Vice-President, Exploration: Peter Manojlovic, P.Geo. Sabina Gold & Silver is focused on exploration and development of flagship projects in Nunavut. These Nunavut assets, which are geographically proximal to each other, consist of the 3,000-square-kilometer, or 1,158-square-mile, Wishbone Greenstone Belt, which includes the world-class Hackett River volcanic massive sulphide project and is adjacent...
SEA: TSX and SA: NYSE Amex President and CEO: Rudi P. Fronk Chairman: James S. Anthony Senior Vice President, Exploration: William E. Threlkeld Seabridge Gold Inc. is a development stage company engaged in the acquisition and exploration of gold properties located Canada. The company is designed to provide its shareholders with exceptional leverage to a rising gold price by increasing its gold ounces in the ground but not to go into production on its own. During the period 1999 through 2002, when the price of gold was lower...
SWN: TSX-V President and CEO: Harlan D. Meade Chairman: Wade Nesmith Vice President, Exploration: Jason Dunning Incorporated in 2004 in British Columbia, Selwyn Resources Ltd. is the successor to Pacifica Resources Ltd., which underwent a reorganization of its assets in June 2007. Pacifica's acquisition of the Howard's Pass Joint Venture lands in eastern Yukon Territory in April 2005 consolidated ownership in the Howard's Pass District and formation of the Selwyn Project. Unprecedented exploration success in Selwyn's 2005 and...
SRM: TSX-V President and CEO: Pamela D. Strand, M.Sc, P.Geol. CFO: Greg Hayes, CA Shear Minerals Ltd. is a Canada-based exploration company focused on diamond exploration in the Canadian North, where it explores in established diamond districts and has discovered new ones since 2001. Shear currently has a portfolio of 10 diamond projects in Michigan, Alberta, Northwest Territories and Nunavut, eight of which are drill-ready. In late August, it completed the purchase of the Jericho diamond mine and related assets in Nunavut...
SWY: TSX President and CEO: Matt Manson, B.Sc. Geo., Ph.D. Geol. Executive Chairman: Eira Thomas Vice President, Exploration: Robin Hopkins, P. Geol. Stornoway Diamond Corp. has a well diversified and highly prospective diamond property portfolio in Canada, which includes the Renard Diamond Project, a development track diamond project with the potential to become Quebec's first diamond mine. Incorporated in 1986, Stornoway envisions becoming Canada's leading growth-oriented company in the business of discovering, mining and...
SMD: TSX-V President and CEO: W. Douglas Eaton, B.A., B.Sc. Chief Operating Officer: Ian J. Talbot Chief Financial Officer: Larry Donaldson Strategic Metals Ltd. is an actively managed junior exploration company with working interests in more than 90 mineral properties in British Columbia and Yukon Territory. Its assets also include a large cash position, a valuable portfolio of shares in other resource companies and potentially valuable royalty interests. Strategic's property interests span a widely diverse suite of commodit...
Privately held company President: Nori Ushirone Pogo General Manager: Todd Roth Pogo Chief Geologist: Paul Jensen Sumitomo Metal Mining Pogo LLC, an 85/15 partnership between Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd. and Sumitomo Corp. is boosting the gold reserves at Pogo while seeking new deposits on the property surrounding the high-grade gold mine in Interior Alaska. The Tokyo-based miner planned about 40,800 meters of surface and underground drilling at Pogo in 2010. The 21,150-meter surface program split between...
TAM: TSX-V Executive Chairman: Margaret M. Kent, B.Sc., M.Sc. President: Ross F. Burns B.Sc., P.Geo, LG CEO: Michael (Mike) Willett, P.Eng Formed in 2000, Tamerlane Ventures Inc. is focused on putting the most profitable zinc-lead property in Canadian history back into production and developing a dump leach copper project in Peru. The junior plans to become a producer of lead-zinc concentrates from its Pine Point Project in Northwest Territories, which hosts an NI 43-101-compliant estimate of 10.9 million metric tons of...
TSX: TCK.A, TCK.B and NYSE: TCK Chairman: Norman Keevil President and CEO: Donald Lindsay Vice President, Exploration: Fred Daley Teck Resources Ltd. is looking forward to 20 more years of high-grade zinc-lead-silver production at its Red Dog Mine in Northwest Alaska. Early in 2010, it was unclear whether the company would continue operations at Red Dog or shutter the mine until issues surrounding its water discharge permits were resolved. After lengthy discussions with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and a...
TRC: TSX-V President: John Robertson With four gold properties located next door to Kinross Gold Corp.'s Fort Knox gold mine, Teryl Resources Corp. is one of the largest landowners in the Fairbanks Mining District, and a favored joint venture partner for Kinross' Alaska subsidiary, Fairbanks Gold Mining Inc. Since their partnership began at the Gil Project (Kinross 80 percent and Teryl 20 percent), the gold producer and the junior have outlined some 10.1 million tons of ore with an average grade of 1.25 grams of gold per...
TAU: TSX-V President and CEO: Raj Chowdhry Chairman: Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse Vice President, Exploration: Jerry Zieg TintinaGold Resources Inc. emerged on the Alaska mining scene in 2009 when NovaGold Resources Inc. (see NovaGold Resources Inc.) rolled 397,680 acres of its early-stage exploration properties in Alaska into the Vancouver B.C.-based junior. This transaction included two gold exploration claim groups in the Kuskokwim region (Tintina gold properties and the Colorado Creek gold project) and three western Alaska base...
TON: ASX Chairman: John Loney Chief Executive Officer: Allen Lance Govey Principal Geologist: Carl Young Triton Gold Ltd., formerly Australian Mineral Fields Inc., is seeking deep high-grade gold below the bulk-tonnage target at its Tushtena gold project located about 20 miles, or 32 kilometers, east of Tok in Interior Alaska. In July Western Australia nickel producer Panoramic Resources Ltd. agreed to fund US$2.6 million of drilling at Tushtena over three years and pay Triton US$300,000 in order to earn a 51 percent...
TDC: TSX-V President and CEO: David Webb, B.A.Sc. (Engineering) M.Sc., Ph.D., P.Geol. Vice President, Operations: Doug Levesque Chief Geologist: Val Pratico, B.Sc., P. Geol. - Tyhee Development Corp. is an advance exploration and development company focused on two objectives: advancing the Yellowknife Gold Project in Northwest Territories toward production and identifying additional resources to supplement potential production at a proposed mine. The Yellowknife Gold Project consists of the Ormsby, Nicholas Lake, Bruce Lake,...
UCU: TSX-V President and CEO: James Mackenzie Vice President, Project Development: Harmen Keyser Vice President and CFO: Peter Manuel At the behest of lawmakers at both the state and federal levels, and with the support of the U.S. Geological Survey, Ucore Rare Metals Inc. (formerly Ucore Uranium Inc.) is advancing the heavy rare earth element-enriched Bokan Mountain project located about 37 miles from Ketchikan in Southeast Alaska toward feasibility. The U.S. Bureau of Mines more than 20 years ago estimated the site...
UW: TSX-V President: Adrian Fleming Chairman: Michael Williams Director: Rob McLeod Underworld Resources, organized in 2005 in British Columbia, is a mineral exploration company focused on expanding its new gold discovery in Yukon Territory. Underworld acquired an option over the White Gold and Black Fox properties located 95 kilometers south of Dawson City in May 2007. First drilling was completed in 2008 with discoveries at the Golden Saddle and Arc targets. In 2009, the company also acquired an option to acquire a 100...
VAZ: TSX-V President and CEO: Michael Skead Valdez Gold Inc. has turned north to seek gold near the legendary mining towns of Dawson City and Nome. In January 2010, the Toronto-based junior signed an option to earn up to a 75 percent stake in Valley High Ventures Ltd.'s Flume Property in the White Gold District of Yukon Territory. Valdez earns an initial 51 percent interest in Flume by spending C$1.5 million on the property and paying Valley High C$500,00 over a four year period. The 3,900-hectare Flume property is located...
VIT: TSX-V President and CEO: Chad Williams Board Chairman: T. Sean Harvey Chief Geologist: Marcus K. Johnston, Ph.D. Victoria Gold Corp., organized in 1981, is a gold exploration company focused on value growth per share through efficient exploration, project development, accretive acquisitions and effective marketing. Its strategy is to maintain a low-risk profile through project diversification and sound financial management and by operating in secure jurisdictions like Yukon Territory. In June 2009 the Toronto-based...
WRN:TSX Chairman and CEO: F. Dale Corman, B.Sc., P.Eng. President and CEO: Paul West-Sells, Ph.D. Vice President, Finance and CFO: Julien Francois, CA Western Copper, incorporated in 2006 in British Columbia, has a pipeline of projects, a strong cash position, no debt and an experienced management team. Its key assets include two copper properties in central Yukon Territory - the billion-metric-ton Casino Project and the Carmacks Copper Project. Western Copper also holds significant gold, copper and molybdenum resources and r...
