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As Americans were preparing for the most unusual Thanksgiving holiday in memory, Australia-based Nova Minerals Ltd. announced results from the "most important" hole drilled to date at Estelle and the raising of A$21 million (US$15.5 million) to fund the ongoing exploration of this rapidly expanding gold project about 100 miles (160 kilometers) northwest of Anchorage, Alaska's largest city. Korbel, a growing gold resource area at the north end of the 85-square-mile (220 square...
Sabina Gold & Silver Corp. Dec. 2 reported that an updated feasibility study for the proposed Goose Mine on its Back River gold project in Nunavut is slated for completion early in 2021. A feasibility study completed in 2015 details plans for developing four deposits at the Goose mine project – Goose, Llama, Umwelt, and Umwelt Underground. Ore from these deposits would feed a 3,000-metric-ton-per-day mill forecast to produce an average of roughly 200,000 ounces of gold per y...
Cassiar Gold Corp. Dec. 1 reported wide section of gold mineralization in sparsely drilled areas of the Taurus deposit at the company's Cassiar gold project in Northern British Columbia. The 60,000-hectare (148,260 acres) Cassiar property hosts both lower grade bulk tonnage and high-grade vein occurrences across a 15-kilometer (nine miles) structural corridor. Taurus, the most advanced bulk tonnage target at Cassiar, hosts 21.8 million metric tons of inferred resource...
Contending that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' decision to deny the major federal permit needed to develop the proposed Pebble Mine in Alaska goes against the record established during the permitting process, Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. Intends to pursue every appeal available to set the record straight. "It is our view that this decision, the process by which it was reached and the facts upon which it is based stand as a significant outlier from standard USACE...
ATAC Resources Ltd. Nov. 30 announced that the Yukon government has rejected the company's application to build a 65-kilometer (40 miles), private tote road that would have supported advanced exploration and potential mine development at Rau, the westernmost of three projects that make up ATAC's expansive Rackla gold property in the Yukon. The proposed all-season road would have branched off the Hanson Lake Road west of Keno City and extended north to Tiger, the most advanced...
With the acquisition of Copper North Mining Corp., Granite Creek Copper Ltd. now owns the advanced staged Carmacks copper-gold project and a roughly 20-kilometer- (12.5 miles) stretch of the highly prospective Minto Copper Belt in Canada's Yukon. Over the past two years, Granite Creek has been exploring Stu, a 111-square-kilometer (42.9 square miles) early stage gold-copper project. In a deal that closed on Nov. 27, Copper North has expanded its land position within the Minto...
Brixton Metals Corp. Dec. 1 reported that 16 holes drilled at Thorn has expanded gold-silver mineralization at the Outlaw target on this project in the northwest corner of British Columbia's Golden Triangle. The company says this year's drilling extended the Central Outlaw zone by 164 meters, for a new total of 600 meters of continuous near-surface gold-silver mineralization. Highlights from the 2020 drilling at Central Outlaw includes 12.4 meters averaging 0.7 grams per...
