The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
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Alaska’s current fiscal crisis has highlighted the need to diversify the state’s economy and being one of the richest minerals jurisdictions on the planet, mining is an industry that could play a major role in future wealth creation in the Last Frontier. Alaska Gov. Bill Walker touched on mining’s role in the state’s future during a Nov. 15 address at the Alaska Resource Conference. “We have six large scale mines in Alaska, we would like to have 12,” he told the business le...
CopperBank Resources Corp. Nov. 17 said Auracle Geospatial Science Inc. will complete a remote sensing radar and hyperspectral survey for the Pyramid and San Diego Bay copper projects on the Alaskan Peninsula. Auracle has developed a suite of mapping technologies that offers structural analysis and mineral classification to identify and map mineral occurrences and alteration zones associated with metal deposits. CopperBank said the results from the satellite radar survey will...
White Gold Corp. Nov. 20 reported that drilling has extended gold mineralization at the Golden Saddle and Arc deposits on the White Gold property in the Yukon. The results reported herein further define a significant extension of the Arc deposit 250m along strike and also extend the Golden Saddle Footwall Zone along strike and towards surface. The company said reverse circulation drilling at Golden Saddle continues to validate historical drilling within the historical resource...
GT Gold Corp. Nov. 20 reported results from five additional holes drilled at the Saddle gold discovery on its Tatogga property in northwestern British Columbia. The best hole, TTD046, cut 8.25 meters averaging 20.02 grams per metric ton gold and 45.31 g/t silver. This is a 50-meter step-out from hole TTD037, which cut 2.59 meters averaging 42.55 g/t gold; and hole TTD040, which cut 6.6 meters averaging 12.64 g/t gold and 30.7 g/t silver. "The intersection in hole 46 continues the steady expansion of the core zone west, with...
Rockhaven Resources Ltd. Nov. 16 reposted additional high-grade gold-silver intercepts at its Klaza project in the Yukon, including one hole that cut 56.19 grams per metric ton gold, 290 g/t silver, 1.63 percent zinc and 1.44 percent lead over 1.9 meters. The company completed 15,922 meters of drilling in 96 holes this year. The latest batch of results are from 18 holes drilled into the Western and Central BRX zones, where infill drilling has better defined near-surface mineralization so that inferred resources can be...
Goldstrike Resources Ltd. Nov. 20 reported that the discovery hole at the Monte Carlo zone on its Lucky Strike property cut 22 meters averaging 5.36 grams per metric ton gold, including 18.79 g/t gold over 5.72 meters. The 2017 program at Lucky Strike included 1,032 meters of drilling in nine shallow holes testing Monte Carlo. Intercepts from the first seven holes include 3.57 meters of 1.75 g/t gold; 2.15 meters of 5.12 g/t gold; and 9.55 meters of 1.33 g/t gold. Assay results from one hole are pending. "The inaugural drill...
Seabridge Gold Inc. Nov. 21 said Canada's National Contact Point, an interdepartmental committee chaired by Global Affairs Canada, has concluded that a complaint it received regarding aspects of the environmental assessment review process for the world-class KSM gold-copper project in northwestern British Columbia did not merit further examination and its file has now been closed after only the initial assessment level of review. The complaint came from Southeast Alaska...
Freegold Ventures Ltd. Nov. 16 reported that the initial holes of its 2017 drill program at Shorty Creek have intercepted significant widths of copper-gold-silver, cobalt and tungsten mineralization, further confirming and expanding the Hill 1835 target. Since the 2015 discovery hole was drilled, Freegold has completed roughly 4,200 meters of drilling at Hill 1835. Hole SC 16-01, drilled last year at the property's Hill 1835 target, cut 434.5 meters averaging 0.57 percent copper-equivalent, which accounts for the value of...
Quantum Resources Ltd. Nov. 20 announced that it has entered into an option five Alaska projects prospective for gold, silver, zinc, nickel, copper, cobalt and rare earth elements. The primary property optioned by the Australia-based junior is Estelle, a district-scale gold-copper-silver project about 100 miles northwest of Anchorage. The other four properties, collectively known as the Farewell group are located northwest of Estelle and include: Chip-Loy-Roberts, a...
