The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
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Earlier in November, the Alaska Miners Association held its annual convention and trade show in Anchorage and as always, the well-attended convention overlapped with election Tuesday. While the lead up to, and results of, the national and state elections were hot topics throughout the week, one comment I heard from a colleague on the morning after the elections distilled the feelings of a lot of people at the conference. When asked what he thought of the election results, he...
Ucore Rare Metals Inc. Nov. 22 announced the appointment of Patrick Ryan as chairman of its board of directors. He is the founder of Neocon International, a Nova Scotia-based plastics manufacturing company that serves as a tier one supplier to leading automotive enterprises such as Toyota, Nissan and General Motors. Since Neocon's inception in 1993, Ryan has been the company's strategic architect, responsible for sales growth and capital acquisitions, while directing a team of research and development engineers and promoting...
Tahltan Nation Development Corp., the business arm of the Tahltan Nation, Nov. 22 announced the formation of Tahltech Drilling Services Ltd., the preferred surface and underground drilling company for the Tahltan territory in northwestern British Columbia. This expansion of services offered by TNDC is the result of a partnership with Geotech Drilling Services Ltd., a B.C.-based, multi-discipline surface and underground drilling company. TNDC selects business partners with the...
Golden Predator Mining Corp. Nov. 8 announced the receipt of a Class 4 Mining Land Use Permit that allows for a significant expansion of exploration activities at its 3 Aces gold project in southeastern Yukon. With the issuance of this five-year permit, the company is now authorized to construct up to 45 kilometers (28 miles) of roads, complete 40,000 cubic meters of trenching and extract 10,000 metric tons of bulk sample material annually. "Golden Predator commenced the...
Auryn Resources Inc. Nov. 28 posted results from a till sampling program designed to identify the highest grade gold-in-till signatures along the 300-kilometer- (185 miles) long greenstone belt at its Committee Bay gold project in Nunavut. "Auryn's belt-wide till sampling program has identified 17 significant gold-in-till anomalies that represent large-scale mineralized systems within the Committee Bay gold belt," explained Auryn COO Michael Henrichsen. Nine of these...
Nighthawk Gold Corp. Nov. 24 reported another round of results from an 8,400-meter drill program completed this year at its Indin Lake gold property roughly 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. In 2013, Nighthawk reported an inferred mineral resource of 39.8 million metric tons averaging 1.64 grams per metric ton (2.1 million ounces) gold, mostly in the parallel Colomac and Goldcrest trends of dikes and sills. Earlier this year, the company...
IDM Mining Ltd. Nov. 28 reported assays from 10 underground holes drilled this year at the Red Mountain gold project in northwestern British Columbia. This batch of drill results are primarily from JW, one of four zones that encompass 1.64 million metric tons of measured and indicated resource averaging 8.36 grams-per-metric-ton (441,500 ounces) gold and 26 g/t (1.38 million oz.) silver. Infill holes at JW were targeted to potentially upgrade areas of inferred resource to the...
The United States Department of Interior manages roughly 198 million acres of federally owned lands in Alaska, a block that is 10 percent larger than the entire state of Texas. So, it is only fitting that two Alaskans - Robert Gillam and former governor Sarah Palin - are being floated as contenders for secretary of Interior as President-elect Donald Trump builds his cabinet. "Over 50 percent of our nation's federally protected lands are located in Alaska. This is why it makes...
