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Victoria Gold Corp. Dec. 9 reported that its summer exploration program has expanded the near surface high-grade gold discovered at the Raven target on the company's Dublin Gulch property in the Yukon. Situated about 13 kilometers (eight miles) northeast of Victoria's newly established Eagle Gold Mine, Raven is a 2018 discovery target that has the exploration company turned gold producer excited. Raven is a target within the Nugget zone, which hosts the second largest known in...
Rockhaven Resources Ltd. Dec. 12 reported that initial assay results from its 2019 drill program at Klaza show the potential to add high-grade gold and silver to the resource already outlined at this road accessible project in southern Yukon. Located on placer gold mining roads about 50 kilometers (31 miles) west of Carmacks, Klaza is an advance staged exploration project that hosts 4.5 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 4.8 grams per metric ton (686,000...
Banyan Gold Corp. Dec. 11 reported that the second phase of 2019 drilling at its Aurex-McQuesten project in the Yukon continues to expand gold mineralization at the Airstrip zone. Previous drilling at Airstrip has outlined a roughly 90-meter-thick package of near surface gold mineralization along about 500 meters of strike. The 2019 phase-2 program is designed to extend this zone to 1,000 meters along strike. The latest batch of four holes – MQ-19-54, MQ-19-55, MQ-19-56 and M...
Triumph Gold Corp. Dec. 11 said the results from the final three holes of its 2019 drill program at Freegold Mountain continue to provide compelling evidence for a large porphyry related gold-copper system underlying near surface gold-copper deposits already outlined on the roughly 200-square-kilometer (77 square miles) property in the Yukon. The two most advanced deposits along a six-kilometer (3.7 miles) trend that spans the Freegold Mountain property are Nucleus and...
Dolly Varden Silver Corp. said the work it carried out in 2019 has positioned its namesake high-grade silver project in British Columbia for additional growth in 2020. Located at the southern tip of B.C.'s Golden Triangle, the Dolly Varden property covers historic high-grade silver mines that date back to the early 20th century. Much of the company's exploration work has focused on exploring in and around four of these producing mines – Torbrit, Dolly Varden, Wolf and North S...
From helmet mounted radios to laser guided missiles, rare earth elements (REE) are an essential ingredient to the advanced hardware used by the U.S. military. These high-tech metals, however, are not produced in America, forcing the Pentagon to depend primarily on China for its supply. As part of a joint armed forces effort to establish a domestic source of rare earths, the U.S. Army is looking to invest in the processing facilities needed to ensure a reliable supply of these...
Nova Minerals Ltd. Dec. 9 announced that it has defined targets for a roughly 25,000-meter resource expansion and exploration drill program at its Estelle gold project in Alaska. Located about 100 miles northwest of Anchorage, Alaska's largest city, Estelle hosts 181.3 million metric tons of Australian Joint Ore Reserves Committee- (JORC) compliant inferred resource averaging 0.43 grams per metric ton (2.5 million ounces) gold. This resource, which the Australia-based...
HighGold Mining Inc. Dec. 10 reports that assay results from the nine-hole drill program completed this year at Johnson Tract continue to confirm the robust gold-silver-copper-zinc-lead mineralization this Southcentral Alaska project in known for. This batch of results is from five holes aimed at upgrading and expanding the JT deposit, which is also referred to as Johnson Tract Main deposit. Based on 88 holes drilled prior to 1995, JT deposit hosts 1.04 million metric tons of...
