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Drill results from mineral exploration programs in Canada's Yukon Territory this year are beginning to roll in as numerous companies wind down 2021 field operations in what some describe as one of the busiest mining seasons in years. Coming on the heels of an eight-year capital market down-cycle, plus a 2020 season burdened with operating restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the current season is bringing more upbeat challenges to Canada's Far North typically associated...
Leveraging its expertise in exploring for Arctic-type volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits in the Ambler Mining District, Trilogy Metals Inc. exploring for similar high-grade polymetallic deposits on three groups of claims east and west of the Upper Kobuk Mineral Project in Northwest Alaska. Being advanced by a joint venture equally owned by Trilogy and South32 Ltd., UKMP is a 427,690-acre land package that includes state and patented claims covering a 75-mile-long stretch...
White Rock Minerals Ltd. Sept. 28 reported that drilling has tapped spectacular zinc grades well outside the resource at Dry Creek, indicating the potential for a substantial expansion of this polymetallic volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit on the company's 323-square-mile (836 square kilometers) Red Mountain project in Alaska. Dry Creek and the nearby WTF deposits near the eastern end of the Red Mountain property host 9.1 million metric tons of Australian Joint Ore...
PolarX Ltd. Oct. 5 reported that its 2021 core drill program at Caribou Dome discovered widespread zones of finely disseminated and vein-hosted native copper over a 1,200-meter-long corridor on this project in Alaska. Part of PolarX' larger Alaska Range property, Caribou Dome hosts 2.8 million metric tons of combined measured, indicated, and inferred resources averaging 3.1% (189.6 million pounds) copper in nine lenses of volcanic sediment-hosted mineralization. The Australia-...
JOHNSON TRACT, Alaska – A nearly half-a-million-ounce gold deposit sitting on a 7.5-mile trend of obvious yet underexplored mineralization just a few miles from the coast in Southcentral Alaska was hiding in plain sight for more than two decades before HighGold Mining Inc. began unlocking the rich potential of this high-grade gold project in 2019. Owned by Cook Inlet Regional Inc., more widely known as CIRI, Johnson Tract is one of the many mineral-rich properties identified a...
Throughout the relatively short modern history of Alaska, many nameless and oft unrecognized explorers have contributed to the Last Frontier state in ways that future generations will never be able to truly appreciate. This, however, is not the case for Bill Ellis, an explorer and geologist who has gifted his knowledge and experience for nearly half a century and personifies the attitude needed to succeed in mineral exploration, optimism. As if by providence, Bill was born in...
HOPE, Alaska – An Alaska partnership between Trout Unlimited and Kinross Gold Corp. demonstrates that cooperation and collaboration are more powerful than conflict and polarization when it comes to conserving the environment while also producing the minerals and metals the world needs and wants. This strength-in-partnerships strategy is on full display in Alaska's historic Hope gold mining district, where Trout Unlimited, Kinross, Hope Mining Company, U.S. Forest Service, a...
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...
Nova Minerals Ltd. Sept. 20 announced that its 2021 reconnaissance exploration has discovered an extensive gold, silver, and copper mineralized zone between the Korbel gold deposit and RPM target on the company's Estelle property in Alaska. While investigating what appeared to be high-grade mineralization at the Stoney vein, a color anomaly at what is now referred to as the Rainy Day vein, and determine the source of the magnetic anomaly at the T5 prospect, Nova Minerals...
Heliostar Metals Ltd. Sept. 20 reported that drilling has further expanded gold mineralization at the Aquila target on the company's Unga project in Southwest Alaska. Aquilla is a zone of outcropping epithermal quartz veins at the southwest end of the Shumagin trend, one of two corridors of gold and silver mineralization running across the breadth of Unga Island, discovered by Battle Mountain Gold in the 1980s. Drilling at that time, however, was limited by poor sample...
White Rock Minerals Ltd. this week reported that exploration crews have discovered a new gold prospect near the Last Chance target on its Red Mountain project and drills have tapped an extension of the Hunter volcanogenic massive sulfide zinc discovery at the eastern end of this 323-square-mile (836 square kilometers) multimineral project in Alaska. "White Rock has a plethora of exploration opportunities across its contiguous Last Chance-Red Mountain project in central...
From the transistors in quantum computers that are millions of times faster than their classical counterparts to fiber optic cables that send data at the speed of light, germanium is a little-known semiconductor that is a small but extremely important ingredient in the technologies behind the future of ultrafast computing and communications. Germanium traces its technological roots back to the 1950s, when scientists developed the transistor to replace vacuum tubes in the...
Extremely hard and with the highest melting point of all the metals, tungsten's toughness is legendary. Like many of the other metals that have found their way onto critical mineral lists in Canada, Europe, and the United States, this durable metal is vulnerable to Chinese control. "World tungsten supply was dominated by production in China and exports from China," the U.S. Geological Survey inked in its 2021 mineral commodities report. It is estimated that mines in China...
From jewelry at a black-tie soiree to scrubbing harmful emissions from the exhaust system of a farm truck, the six platinum group metals – platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium, and osmium – are metals that are both precious and critical to the United States and Canada. Extremely rare, durable, and with a brilliance that does not tarnish, platinum and other metals in its group are a treasured choice for high-end jewelry that stands the test of time. Three of the...
An unsung war hero that saved countless American troops during World War II, an overlooked battery material that has played a pivotal role in storing electricity for more than 100 years, and a major ingredient in futuristic grid-scale energy storage, antimony is among the most important critical metalloids that most people have never heard of. While antimony may not be part of the common lexicon, humans have been using this semi-metal for more than 5,000 years. "For example,...
Nova Minerals Ltd. Sept. 1 reported that infill drilling of the Korbel deposit on its Estelle gold project in Alaska continues to confirm the continuity and expand upon the resource outlined there. According to an April calculation, the Korbel Main deposit hosts 4.7 million ounces of gold in 518 million metric tons of inferred resource averaging 0.3 grams per metric ton gold. This year's drilling is focused on upgrading and expanding this resource, as well as establishing a...
Brixton Metals Corp. Aug. 23 announced that visible gold has been encountered in six of the first eight holes drilled during the company's maiden drill program at the Trapper target at its 1,000-square-mile (2,600 square kilometers) Thorn gold-copper-silver project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. "The discovery of visible gold in drilling is obviously exciting for us," said Brixton Metals President and CEO Gary Thompson. Earlier this year, Brixton discovered previously...
White Rock Minerals Ltd. is carrying out the largest exploration program at Red Mountain, an already district-scale project in Alaska that keeps getting bigger as the Australian explorer continues to find more zinc, silver, and gold mineralization on the outskirts of this now 323-square-mile (836 square kilometers) land package. By late May, White Rock had already begun a more than 10,000-meter drill program that is testing both intrusive-related gold targets at the Last...
Accounting for at least US$100 million invested in mineral exploration and mine development in Alaska during 2021, Australian companies continue to work along the entire breadth of the Last Frontier's mining industry – from discovery to doré. Following a year in which COVID-19 protocols and travel restrictions made exploring Alaska challenging, especially for companies headquartered half a world away, this impressive investment in Alaska's mining sector demonstrates that Do...
An Alaska-based mineral explorer that has long attracted Australian companies to projects it has generated, Millrock Resources Inc. is actively working with two such companies on gold exploration projects in Interior Alaska – Felix Gold Ltd. in the Fairbanks Mining District and Resolution Minerals Ltd. in the Goodpaster Mining District. "The exploration season is in full swing in Alaska," Millrock Resources President and CEO Greg Beischer said earlier this month. "Our f...
From its first-ever diamond drill program on the Betty property in the vicinity of Western Copper and Gold Corp.'s Casino copper-gold project in the Dawson Range to testing a potential hardrock source of the rich placer streams in the Sixtymile district near the Alaska border, White Gold Corp. is in the midst of an expansive exploration program across its more than 1 million acres of prospective land in Yukon's prolific White Gold District. "We are anticipating an exciting...
Brixton Metals Corp. July 26 announced the discovery of abundant visible gold in a previously unexplored outcrop at the Trapper target on its 1,000-square-miles (2,600 square kilometers) Thorn gold-copper-silver project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Situated about 55 miles (90 kilometers) northeast of Juneau, Alaska, the district-scale Thorn property hosts large-scale porphyry copper-gold-silver-molybdenum and volcanic-sediment hosted gold-silver targets. Located...
Fireweed Zinc Ltd. July 27 reported wide zones of mineralization have been encountered in the first three holes drilled this year at the Boundary West discovery on the company's Macmillan Pass zinc-lead-silver project in eastern Yukon, Canada. A road-accessible project next to the Northwest Territories border, the 940-square-kilometer (363 square miles) Macmillan Pass property blankets a roughly 55-kilometer- (34 miles) trend of potential zinc-lead-silver mineralization. Two...
Alaska's largely untapped mineral potential continues to draw the interest of Down Under mining companies, including two Australian minerals explorers that picked up prospective land packages open to staking. Earlier this month, Australia-based Ragusa Minerals Ltd. announced that it had acquired Monte Cristo, a block of 500 state mining claims covering a 35-mile-long (55 kilometers) under-explored stretch of Southcentral Alaska east and south of two projects with...
High-grade deposits rich in copper, gold, and silver to bulk tonnage porphyry targets sought after by many of the world's major copper producers, Australia-based PolarX Ltd. has no shortage of targets to explore across its 22-mile- (35 kilometers) long Alaska Range property. As its name suggests, this property lies within the majestic and mineral-rich mountain range that arcs across the middle of the Far North state. PolarX' 2021 program is focused on two high-grade copper...
