The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
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Discovery Africa Ltd. Dec. 7 changed its name to Discovery Alaska Ltd., a moniker that better reflects the Australia-based company's focus on Chulitna and potentially other mineral exploration projects across the Far North state. In February, Discovery announced that it had staked 308 state mining claims covering historic gold-silver-copper and tin-silver prospects in Southcentral Alaska. The roughly 77-square-mile land package now known as Chulitna covers the Partin Creek...
Discovery Africa Ltd. Nov. 3 reported high-grade gold, silver, and copper results from the initial rock sampling program on the company's Chulitna project about four miles west of the Parks Highway, roughly midway between Anchorage and Fairbanks, Alaska. Lying immediately south of Avidian Gold Corp.'s Golden Zone project, the Chulitna land package covers the Partin gold-silver-copper target and Coal Creek tin-silver zinc prospect. After staking roughly 77 square miles of...
From the advancements of technology during the Bronze Age to the computers and telecommunication systems of today's Big Data Era, tin has been critical to human progress for at least 5,500 years. Sometime around 3500 BC, Sumerians living in modern day Turkey and Iran discovered that mixing a little tin with copper created bronze, an alloy that produced much more durable weapons and tools than those cast from copper alone. This cutting-edge discovery offered a strategic and... Full story
