The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
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With all due apologies to our Canadian friends (who celebrate their independence on Saturday), next Tuesday is our big day! Cynicism aside, it is time to recognize just how great America is in general and Alaska is in particular. Gender issues, abortion issues, gun issues, immigration issues, issues with big government, issues with state and local governments, issues with criminal trespassers on the capitol grounds, issues with the criminal prosecutions of a former President...
Launches a 1.5- year program to explore wider potential of high-grade silver-zinc-lead project in Northern BC. With recent exploration indicating that the resource outlined at Silvertip may be just a portion of a much larger mineralized system, Coeur Mining Inc. is launching a comprehensive exploration program at this high-grade silver mine project in the northernmost reaches of British Columbia. Going into 2023, Silvertip hosted 7.04 million tons of measured and indicated...
Fireweed announces MRE for tungsten that could supply North America for decades. Acquiring the Mactung tungsten project from the Northwest Territories government for C$15 million last year, Fireweed quickly consolidated previous data and new assessments to release a mineral resource estimate that ranks this property as the largest high-grade tungsten resource in the world. "In one year, we have gone from signing an initial letter of intent to a definitive asset purchase...
While the journey west during the frontier days often paints a picture of strife and hardship, not every tale was filled with sorrow and loss. Although covered wagons were definitely a thing, the journey toward greener pastures became much less arduous as steamboats and stagecoaches followed routes mapped by the earliest pioneers. However, it was the coming of the railroad that increased the speed of the trek, and its effectiveness in travel persists even today. For much of...
After $8.2 billion cash offer for coal assets, Teck calls Glencore's merger bid a non-starter. Despite an $8.2 billion cash sweetener, Teck Resources Ltd.'s board of directors is holding steadfast to its position that Glencore's aggressive bid to buy out the Canadian miner is a non-starter. "Glencore has made two opportunistic and unrealistic proposals that would transfer significant value to Glencore at the expense of Teck shareholders," Teck Resources Chair Sheila Murray...
Offers $8.2 billion for BC coal assets ahead of a merger that provides Teck shareholders 24% stake in MetalCo. Teck Resources Ltd. continues to rebuff an increasingly aggressive buyout bid by Glencore, which hopes to merge with the Canadian mining company and then create two new companies that would advance the coal and metals assets resulting from the combined portfolio. This plan to create separate coal and metal mining companies is a continuation of a demerger strategy set...
World's top miner proposes merger, demerger to form world's top metals and coal mining companies. Merger and acquisition activity continues in the North of 60 Mining News area with Glencore's unsolicited US$22.5 billion (C$30.3 billion) all shares offer to merge with Teck Resources Ltd., which owns the Red Dog zinc mine in Alaska and interest in several advanced copper exploration projects in Northern British Columbia. On April 3, Teck announced that the world's largest...
Glencore says it is willing to cut a deal directly with shareholders if a planned split of Teck's metal, coal assets is stopped. With Teck Resources Ltd.'s board of directors and management refusing to consider its roughly US$22.5 billion (C$30.3 billion) merger proposal, Glencore is taking its increasingly aggressive takeover bid directly to the diversified Canadian mining company's shareholders. "Glencore is willing to make an offer directly to Teck shareholders if the...
NorZinc Ltd. April 20 announced the completion of a 170-kilometer (about 105 miles) pioneer winter road to the Prairie Creek Mine, which serves as the first phase of an all-season access road to the zinc mine in Canada's Northwest Territories. Prairie Creek is the site of a historical zinc-silver mine that was developed in the 1970s and 1980s but was never ramped up to full production due to a collapse in the price of silver that supported the economics of the project....
Strategic Metals Ltd., surely the most active project generator in northern Canada, recently reported substantial mineral exploration and transaction activities in 2022 and early 2023. This includes an update in January on exploration at Mount Hinton, a gold-silver project in Yukon's Keno Hill District that lies immediately southeast of Hecla Mining Company's Keno Hill Silver Mine, 35 kilometers (22 miles) southeast of Victoria Gold's Eagle Mine, and 25 kilometers (16 miles)...
Core Assets Corp. April 11 reported strong copper and associated silver was encountered during 2022 channel sampling at the Kim skarn target on the company's 113,900-hectare (281,500 acres) Blue property in Northern British Columbia. Located along BC's border with Alaska in the Atlin Mining District, the district-scale Blue land package hosts high-grade skarn, carbonate replacement, and porphyry prospects enriched with copper, gold, zinc, silver, and lead. Since assembling the...
British Columbia's Golden Triangle is poised for a mining boom that raises the bar when it comes to achieving the higher environmental, social, and guidance expectations for companies that produce the gold, silver, copper, and other metals the world needs and wants. While this mineral district in BC's northwest corner is famed for its rich stores of copper, gold, and silver – and to a lesser degree, nickel, cobalt, platinum group metals, and other critical minerals – the ESG...
Core Assets Corp. Feb. 23 reported high-grade copper-zinc-silver mineralization in rock samples collected from the Kim target – a high-grade occurrence about 22 kilometers (14 miles) north of the Silver Lime porphyry-carbonate replacement deposit project on the company's Blue property in northern British Columbia. Located along BC's border with Alaska in the Atlin Mining District, Blue is a roughly 281,500-acre (113,900 hectares) land package covering high-grade skarn and c...
Blackwolf Copper and Gold Ltd. Feb. 16 announced, after more than a decade, an updated mineral resource estimate for its Niblack property in Southeast Alaska. "Our updated mineral resource estimation includes subsequent rounds of drilling as compared to the previous 2011 mineral resource estimate as well as cost parameter guidance from current underground operations, in accordance with the new CIM (Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum) guidelines," said...
The increasing number of electric vehicles charged with renewable energy, connected to 5G networks, and boasting the computing power of 200 laptops to autonomously traverse global highways is creating a meteoric rise in demand for the minerals and metals critical to clean energy and high-tech. Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, the foremost authority on lithium battery supply chains, estimates that more than 300 new mines will need to come online by 2035 – just to produce the c...
Leveraging substantial advancements in the understanding of porphyry, skarn, and carbonate replacement type deposits over the past 40 years, Core Assets Corp. is making news discoveries on the long overlooked Blue property in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Located along BC's border with Alaska in the Atlin Mining District, Blue is a 275,890-acre (111,650 hectares) land package covering high-grade skarn and carbonate replacement and porphyry prospects enriched with...
In preparation for a new era of mining at Prairie Creek, NorZinc Ltd. carried out a roughly 5,300-meter drill program in 2022 focused on gathering geological and other data needed for an updated feasibility study for this underground zinc mine project in Northwest Territories. According to a 2021 calculation, Prairie Creek hosts 9.8 million metric tons of measured and indicated resources averaging 9.7% zinc, 8.8% lead, and 139 grams per metric ton silver; and 6.4 million...
Mining activity in Northwest Territories held steady in 2022 despite constraints imposed by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic as a cadre of mainly junior mining companies took up the international challenge to seek out large deposits of critical minerals. Early in the year, government officials noted that industry interest in diamonds, gold, and especially critical minerals boded well for the NWT economy in the coming year. "An exciting new chapter is emerging for mining in the...
With mineral exploration expenditures nearly doubling over the past year, Nunavut has dethroned Yukon as the most popular Canadian territory to discover and expand deposits of industrial, precious, and critical minerals. According to preliminary estimates published by Natural Resources Canada, roughly C$232.4 million (US$173.7 million) will be spent on exploration and deposit evaluation in Nunavut this year, a 95% leap from over the C$119.2 million (US$89.1 million) invested...
On the heels of its successful Macmillan Pass zinc-lead exploration play in eastern Yukon Territory, Fireweed Metals Corp. is making a bid to expand its project portfolio in what may be an astute move. Studying the region's geology, the junior jumped territorial boundaries to stake nearly 129 square kilometers (50 square miles) of lapsed claims covering all historic showings and anomalies of the historical Gayna River zinc-lead-gallium-germanium project in Northwest...
NorZinc Ltd. Oct. 19 announced that it has received the final approvals needed to begin construction of a winter road to Prairie Creek, the first phase of a planned 170-kilometer (105 miles) all-season road that will allow concentrates from the mine to be delivered to market. The territorial government and Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board approved all NorZinc's management plans pertaining to the permit and license to construct the Pioneer Winter Road. While these are the...
Develops strategy to be the world's critical minerals supplier of choice Understanding that the renewable energy and electric vehicle revolution offers a "generational opportunity for Canada and its world-class mining sector," Ottawa is leveraging the nation's wealth of critical minerals to become a powerhouse that feeds raw materials into resource-hungry clean energy and technology supply chains. "Canada's Critical Minerals Strategy will position Canada as the global supplier...
Tungsten could be held ransom unless domestic mines open Tungsten, or wolfram, is the 74th element on the periodic table of elements and, like many other metals that have found their way onto critical mineral lists in Canada, Europe, and the United States, this sturdy metal is vulnerable to supply disruption. Tungsten has been known since prehistoric times, and as far back as 350 years ago, Chinese porcelain makers were using this element as a pigment to incorporate a unique...
"Grade is king" is an adage that guides mineral exploration and mining. The premise behind this basic axiom of the mining business is the less ore that needs to be mined and processed per ounce of precious metals, pound of base metals, kilogram of critical minerals, or carat of gemstones produced, the more profitable an operation will be. The kingliest of orebodies would be of such high grade that a mining company would simply need to dig up the ore, crush it, and then ship it...
Leveraging substantial advancements in the understanding of porphyry, skarn, and carbonate replacement type deposits over the past 40 years, Core Assets Corp. is making news discoveries at the long overlooked Blue property in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Located in the gold-rich Atlin Mining District, Blue is a 111,649-hectare (275,890 acres) land package covering high-grade skarn and carbonate replacement and porphyry prospects enriched with silver, gold, copper,...
