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With the addition of Mark Hamilton as executive vice president of external affairs, the Pebble Limited Partnership continues to build upon an impressive team of Alaska-based leaders as it prepares to advance the world-class Pebble copper mine project towards permitting. "I'm delighted to join the Pebble team as we begin the long and rigorous journey toward permitting a mine engineered to protect the environment and the world-class fisheries of Bristol Bay," Hamilton said....
White Gold Corp. Nov. 6 said its 2017 drill program continues to expand the Main and Footwall zones of the Golden Saddle deposit on its White Gold property in the Yukon. Highlights from the latest batch of results from Golden Saddle include: 109.7 meters of 1.33 g/t gold from a depth of 39.6 meters in hole WHTGS17RC-012, a Main zone intercept; 111.3 meters of 2.61 g/t gold from a depth of 47.2 meters in WHTGS17RC-011, Main zone intercept; 34 meters of 1.19 g/t gold from 215 meters in WHTGS17DD-171, a Footwall intercept; 7 met...
Aben Resources Ltd. Nov. 6 reported that drilling has encountered broad zones of copper-gold-silver mineralization in the Boundary zone at the company's Forrest Kerr project in the Golden Triangle region of northwestern British Columbia. FK17-05, drilled in the recently identified Boundary North zone cut 122 meters averaging 1.2 grams per metric ton gold, 1.8 g/t copper and 0.21 copper, including a 6-meter high-grade core averaging 21.5 g/t gold, 28.5 g/t silver and 3.1percent copper. FK17-06, also drilled at Boundary north...
Colorado Resources Ltd. Nov. 6 reported high-grade gold intercepts as well as broad zone of gold, copper and zinc mineralization in seven distinct zones in the Inel-Khyber area of its KSP property in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. The company completed 57 holes at Inel-Khyber, a 2,000- by 2,500-meter region that encompasses the V.G. Zone, Inel Ridge, Upper AK, Camp Porphyry and Khyber. "We continue to see high-grade gold results from the V.G and Khyber areas, a...
Victoria Gold Corp. Nov. 7 said the C$40 million of pre-development activities at its Eagle Gold Mine project in the Yukon are nearly complete. This program, structured to de-risk the earthwork areas of the mine development project and to prepare the site for efficient construction activities, included: heap leach embankment preparation; control pond construction; project access road and bridge upgrades; pioneering of site roads to the crusher area and gold recovery plant;...
Seabridge Gold Inc. Nov. 8 reported that the final three holes of its 2017 program targeting the plunge projection of the Iron Cap Deposit cut very long runs of some of the highest metal values found to date at KSM. These intercepts include 699.8 meters of 0.87 grams per metric ton gold, 0.51 percent copper and 2.4 g/t silver in hole IC-17-71; 858.1 meters of 0.86 g/t gold, 0.51 percent copper and 2.4 g/t silver IC-17-72; and 379.4 meters of 0.33 g/t gold 0.35 percent copper...
GT Gold Corp. Nov. 8 reported additional high-grade gold results from drilling the Saddle discovery at the company's Tatogga property in the Golden Triangle region of northwestern British Columbia. Highlighted intercepts from the nine holes reported include: 2.59 meters of 42.55 grams per metric ton gold from a depth of 103.23 meters in hole TTD037; 6.6 meters of 12.64 g/t gold and 30.7 g/t silver from a depth of 95.4 meters in TDD040; and 6.87 meters of 10.18 g/t gold from a...
Constantine Metal Resources Ltd. Nov. 2 reported wide silver and zinc intervals during expansion drilling at the AG Zone, a silver- and zinc-rich volcanogenic massive sulfide discovery at the Palmer project in Southeast Alaska. The discovery hole at AG, reported in July, cut 9.2 meters of massive barite-sulfide averaging 312 grams per metric ton silver and 0.9 g/t gold. Assays from additional holes reported in August include: 17.8 meters grading 11.7 percent zinc, 0.2 percent...
Hecla Mining Company Nov. 7 said the zinc, lead and gold produced at Greens Creek more than paid for the production costs at the Southeast Alaska mine during the third quarter. As a result, the cost to produce an ounce of silver at Greens Creek was negative US15 cents from July through September. This compares to US$4.80/oz during the same period last year. The all in sustaining costs to produce and ounce of silver at Greens Creek, after by-product credits, was US$4.47/oz...
