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Pebble Limited Partnership has submitted a compensatory mitigation plan for Pebble, which is the final piece needed for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to finalize a record of decision for the world-class copper-gold-molybdenum-silver-rhenium mine project in Southwest Alaska. Following publication of a Final Environmental Impact Statement for Pebble in July, the Army Corps sent Pebble Partnership a letter that details the need for "in kind" and "in watershed" mitigation for...
Ambler Metals LLC plans to invest US$27 million to advance the Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects in Northwest Alaska during 2021. The budget and program approved by equal partners in Ambler Metals – Trilogy Metals Inc. and South32 Ltd. – will primarily focus on the work required to ready the Arctic Mine project to enter permitting during the second half of 2021. According to a feasibility study finalized earlier this year, the Arctic deposit in Alaska's Ambler Mining District det...
HighGold Mining Inc. Nov. 18 reports that the latest batch of assay results from the 2020 program at Johnson Tract continue to expand high-grade gold, copper, and zinc mineralization at the JT deposit on this project in Southcentral Alaska. According to a calculation earlier this year, the JT deposit hosts 2.14 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 6.07 grams per metric ton (417,000 ounces) gold, 5.8 g/t (397,000 oz) silver, 5.85% (275.3 million pounds) zinc,...
Constantine Metal Resources Ltd. Nov. 19 reported that this year's prospecting and soil sampling has confirmed historically reported high-grade gold mineralization at Big Nugget Gold and has helped refine drill targets for follow up drilling at this project associated with the company's Palmer project in Southeast Alaska. "The Big Nugget Gold project represents a rare, untested and undrilled, high grade gold quartz vein system that is unusual to find in this day and age,"...
Victoria Gold Corp. Nov. 16 reported long intersection of strong gold mineralization in the final 13 holes drilled at the Raven target on the company's 555-square-kilometer (214 square miles) Dublin Gulch property in the Yukon. Discovered in 2018, Raven is a near surface gold target about 13 kilometers (eight miles) east of Victoria's Eagle Gold mine. The 2020 drill program at Raven extended high-grade gold mineralization there to 750 meters along strike, which is triple the...
Banyan Gold Corp. Nov. 16 reports that recent assay results demonstrate the expansion potential of the Powerline zone on the company's AurMac gold property in the Yukon. A road accessible project about 56 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Mayo and roughly 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Victoria Gold Corp.'s Eagle gold mine, AurMac hosts at-surface deposits – Airstrip and Powerline – along with other drill-ready targets. According to a May calculation AurMac hosts 52....
Ascot Resources Ltd. Nov. 19 reports that drilling has tapped gold between the newly discovered Day Zone and the Big Missouri gold deposit on the company's Premier gold-silver project just outside of Stewart, British Columbia. The drilling at Day Zone is part of Ascot's 2020 program aimed at testing zones that could provide additional ore to a new era of gold mining at the historic Premier Mine. A feasibility study completed for Ascot earlier this year envisions four mines – S...
Dominion Diamond Mines Nov. 13 announced it will be recalling roughly 60 furloughed employees to prepare for an anticipated restart of its Ekati diamond mine in Northwest Territories. In mid-March, Dominion suspended operations at Ekati. While the shuttering of the diamond mine was partially to safeguard employees and nearby communities from the spread of COVID-19, the company was also suffering financial hardship. In April, Dominion filed for insolvency protection under the...
