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Pretium Resources Inc. Dec. 16 said the discovery of high-grade gold within broad intervals of bulk tonnage mineralization at the Hanging Glacier zone about four kilometers (2.5 miles) northwest of its Brucejack Mine, demonstrates the wider potential of this Northern British Columbia property. Pretium completed 25,350 meters of grassroots exploration drilling at four zones – Hanging Glacier, A6, Koopa, and Haimila – across its 1,200-square kilometer (463 square miles) Brucejac...
Avidian Gold Corp. Dec. 17 reports that the second hole of its 2020 drill program at Amanita encountered the most significant gold intercept so far on this project that lies alongside the southern border of Kinross Gold Corp.'s Fort Knox Mine property in Alaska. This year, Avidian completed 1,945 meters of drilling in nine holes within the Tonsina trend, an 800-meter-wide structural corridor of gold mineralization that extends northeast from Amanita onto the Fort Knox...
Millrock Resources Inc. and Resolution Minerals Ltd. Dec. 13 announced the completion of the 2020 exploration at 64North, and preliminary plans for the 2021 program at this large land package adjacent to Northern Star Resources Ltd.'s Pogo gold mine in Alaska's Goodpaster Mining District. Since entering into an exploration agreement with Millrock late in 2019, Resolution has invested more than US$5 million in exploration at 64North and has indicated that it plans to make the...
Peak Gold LLC, a joint venture between Kinross Gold Corp. (70%) and Contango ORE Inc. (30%), have agreed to invest US$18 million during 2021 to carry out the work needed to complete a feasibility level study for establishing a mine at Peak Gold project in eastern Alaska. Toward a new strategy of acquiring high-grade gold from projects across Alaska to provide feedstock for the mill at its Fort Knox Mine about 25 miles north of Fairbanks, Kinross acquired a 70% JV interest in...
Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. says the US Army Corps of Engineers' rejection of the compensatory mitigation plan submitted for the Pebble Mine project in Southwest Alaska is unlawful, unprecedented in Alaska, and unsupported by the administrative record. "I am very confident in saying I believe our CMP is both compliant with the Clean Water Act and fully responsive to the Corps' demand. So, we were shocked when they found our plan to be non-compliant, and even more so that...
Sabina Gold & Silver Corp. Dec. 16 reported that, despite getting a late start to the 2020 season due to COVID-19, crews made progress on several preconstruction objectives at the Goose gold mine project on its Back River property in Nunavut. Pre-construction activities that further advanced the Goose camp and readied the mine project for a productive year in 2021 included: • Extension of the existing all-weather airstrip from 3,000 to 4,500 feet to facilitate the use of l...
Grande Portage Resources Ltd. Dec. 14 reports that drilling cut strong gold mineralization at Elusive, the southernmost of eight primary vein structures that have been confirmed at the company's Herbert Gold project in Southeast Alaska. The Elusive Vein discovery hole, 20H-3, cut 1.78 meters averaging 4.15 grams per metric ton gold. This represents the confirmation of another gold-bearing structure 300 meters south of Deep Trench Vein, which was previously the southern limit...
Western Copper and Gold Corp. Dec. 14 announced the start of a new preliminary economic assessment that will consider mining a much larger resource at its Casino project in Canada's Yukon. A feasibility study completed in 2013 envisioned utilizing both a mill and heap leaching to recover the copper, gold, silver, and molybdenum found at Casino. Western Copper, however, has more than doubled the size of the Casino deposit since that study was completed. According to a...
