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Golden Predator Mining Corp. Nov. 14 announced that it plans to have a feasibility study completed for the initial phase of its plan to restart gold production at the Brewery Creek gold mine by the first quarter of next year. Located about a 45-minute drive east of Dawson City, Yukon, Brewery Creek is the site of an open-pit, heap-leach mine that produced 277,170 ounces of gold over a seven-year span beginning in 1996. Viceroy Resource Corp., which established the mine, opted...
Osisko Metals Inc. Nov. 13 reported that its Pine Point project in Northwest Territories now hosts 5.3 billion pounds of zinc and 2.1 billion lb of lead, a roughly 36 percent increase since a resource was calculated at the end of 2018. According to this new calculation, Pine Point hosts 52.4 million metric tons of inferred resource grading 4.64 percent zinc and 1.83 percent lead, which equates to 6.47 percent zinc-equivalent. This includes 47.9 million metric tons of surface...
ATAC Resources Ltd. Nov. 14 announced it is working on an updated resource estimate and preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its high-grade Tiger gold deposit at Rau, the westernmost of three projects that make up the company's 185-kilometer- (115 miles) long Rackla Gold property in the Yukon. A previous PEA, completed in 2016, in May, investigated the use of an agitated tank carbon-in-pulp leaching process to recover gold from the highly oxidized carbonate replacement...
NorZinc Ltd. Nov. 14 announced that two of the permits needed to begin construction on the all-season road to its Prairie Creek zinc-lead-silver mine project in Northwest Territories has been issued. The Prairie Creek Mine is surrounded by Canada's Nahanni National Park Reserve, which encompassed the property when the park was expanded in 2009. At the time of the park expansion, however, the federal government provided NorZinc (then Canadian Zinc Corp.) with assurance that it...
Valhalla Metals Inc. is excited about new targets identified by airborne geophysics flown over Sun, a volcanogenic massive sulfide exploration project in Alaska's Ambler Mining District that is rich in zinc, lead, copper and silver. Valhalla is a private Alaskan mineral exploration company formed in 2018 by a team of geologists and industry professionals to acquire and explore Sun and potentially other projects in the Ambler district and across the state. According to a...
Golden Predator Mining Corp. Nov. 12 announced that tests have confirmed that EnviroLeach Technologies Inc.'s formula effectively extracts and recovers more than 95 percent of the gold from sulfide concentrates produced at the company's 3 Aces project in eastern Yukon. EnviroLeach Technologies has developed a proprietary non-cyanide, water-based, neutral pH treatment solution for recovering precious metals from ores, concentrates and recycled electronics. The solution can...
