The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
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Over the last month the inevitable termination dust has begun to show up across Alaska, bringing with it completion of mineral exploration programs and transition of development and production projects to winter operational modes. Explorers, developers and miners will soon be gathering to compare notes at the annual Alaska Miners Association Convention in Anchorage, an event that always overlaps national and local election night. Alaska's mineral industry outlook brightened...
Brixton Metals Corp. Oct. 31 reported initial drill results from the second phase of 2016 exploration at its 100 Thorn gold-silver project in northwestern British Columbia. Hole 132, drilled in the property''s Outlaw zone, cut two gold intercepts. Starting at surface, this hole cut 18 meters of 1.61 grams per metric ton gold and 12.3 g/t silver; and from a depth of 78 meters this hole cut 52. Hole 133, also drilled at Outlaw, cut 13 meters of 1.73 g/t gold and 7.3 g/t silver from surface. Brixton said these intercepts...
Klondike Gold Corp. Nov. 1 reported broad gold intercepts from the first two holes drilled this year at the Lone Star target within its 527-square-kilometer (130,225 acres) Klondike District gold project near Dawson City, Yukon. The first hole at Lone Star, LS16-58, cut 37 meters averaging 2.4 grams per metric ton gold. LS16-59, drilled 40 meters to the east, cut 27.7 meters of 1.2 g/t gold. Klondike said gold at the Lone Star target is interpreted to be associated with a structurally significant thrust fault and documented...
Anniversary celebrations, golden milestones and rising metals prices are providing Alaska's metal miners with plenty to cheer about in 2016. Roughly 1 million ounces of gold will be mined in Alaska this year, when you tally the amount of the precious metal produced at four of Alaska's large metal mines – Fort Knox, Pogo, Kensington and Greens Creek – and the placer aurum produced at the family-scale operations across the state. Fortunately for all these miners, gold shot up...
Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. Oct. 26 provided an update on its mine and projects in Nunavut, a jurisdiction it considers politically attractive and stable with enormous geological potential. Home to the company's largest producing mine, two significant development assets and other exploration projects, the company believes Nunavut has the potential to be a strategic operating platform with the ability to generate strong production and cash flows over several decades. Agnico's Meadowbank mine produced 72,731 ounces of gold during...
IDM Mining Ltd. Nov. 1 posted results from another 10 underground holes drilled during the phase-1 exploration program at its Red Mountain gold project near Stewart, British Columbia. U16-1194, drilled in the AV zone, cut 23.13 meters grading 5.81 grams per metric ton gold and 16.11 g/t silver; U16-1202, drilled in the JW zone, cut 17.81 meters of 6.45 g/t gold and 60.7 g/t silver; and U16-1205, drilled in the Marc zone, cut 8 meters of 20.29 g/t gold and 68.74 g/t silver. The information from these infill and metallurgical...
Skeena Resources Ltd. Nov. 1 reported the final assay results from its 2016 drill program at Snip, which hosts the historic Snip high-grade gold mine in the Golden Triangle of northwestern British Columbia. Hole S-16-16, targeting an extension of the newly discovered Twin West structural corridor, cut 3.2 meters averaging 24.44 g/t gold. Additional holes targeting the Twin Zone confirmed the presence of the newly defined 200 Footwall zone, which is approximately 200 meters below the historical Twin zone mine workings....
Endurance Gold Corp. Oct. 31 reported gold intercepts in the first hole of the 2016 drill program at its Elephant Mountain gold property about 76 miles northwest of Fairbanks, Alaska. This hole, EL 16-14, was drilled on the eastern margin of the South zone soil anomaly at Elephant Mountain. Hole EL 16-14A cut 4.6 meters averaging 4.09 grams per metric ton gold from a depth of 18.3 meters. This hole was lost and re-drilled at slightly shallower angle as EL 16-14B, which cut...
After two years of legal wrangling, Pebble Limited Partnership and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have traded the courtroom floor for a negotiating table to resolve differences that would likely influence the viability of developing a mine at the world-class Pebble copper deposit in Southwest Alaska. In 2014, the Pebble Partnership filed a suit action in federal district court in Alaska, alleging that EPA violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act by working...
Freegold Ventures Ltd. Oct. 26 provided results from the second hole of a summer drill program at its Shorty Creek copper-gold project about 75 road-miles northwest of Fairbanks, Alaska. Hole SC 16-02 cut 93.5 meters averaging the equivalent of 0.55 percent copper when you factor in the value of the gold and silver in the intercept. Hole two was drilled at the Hill 1835 prospect about 120 meters southwest of hole SC 16-01, which cut 434.5 meters averaging 0.57 percent copper-equivalent. In addition to the copper, gold and...
Trilogy Metals Inc. Oct. 27 provided an update from its 2016 summer field program at the Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects in the Ambler mining district of Northwest Alaska. "We are pleased to announce another highly successful and safe field season at our high grade Arctic deposit. We had zero loss time incidents, no environmental incidents and maintained a high percentage of local NANA shareholder hire," said Trilogy President and CEO Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse. NANA is the Alaska Native regional corporation in Northwest Alaska and...
Golden Predator Mining Corp. Nov. 2 announced the discovery of new gold bearing veins in the Clubs area of its 3 Aces project in southeastern Yukon. So far this year, the company has identified 20 new gold bearing veins within a 10.5-square-kilometer (2,600 acres) core area of 3 Aces. Most of these high-grade gold discoveries have been made in the Aces area of the core zone, where drilling earlier this year cut 11.43 meters of 31.89 grams per metric ton gold. The new gold...
