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  • Fireweed geologist in the field looking at mountains of Macmillan Pass.

    Zinc drilled beyond Fireweed's Boundary

    A.J. Roan, Mining News|Updated Oct 31, 2024

    High-grade zinc, lead, silver, and potential byproduct critical minerals point to further resource growth at Macpass. Fireweed Metals Corp. Oct. 30 announced a new batch of assays from this year's drill program at its Macpass zinc-lead-silver project in Yukon, Canada, reporting high-grade intersections that highlight the potential for a substantial increase in the overall tonnage at Boundary Zone. Located approximately 200 kilometers (124 miles) south of Ross River and 223 kil...

  • Fireweed geologist standing on a ridge overlooking Macmillan Pass.

    Exploration reveals new discovery at Macpass

    A.J. Roan, Mining News|Updated Oct 9, 2024

    Recent drilling uncovers high-grade zinc and silver, opening new exploration opportunities. Fireweed Metals Corp. Oct. 8 announced the discovery of near-surface zinc and silver mineralization at the newly identified Popcorn target within the company's Macpass Project in Yukon, Canada. "Popcorn represents the first exploration success stemming from our regional exploration program this year at Macpass," said Peter Hemstead, Fireweed Metals' interim president and CEO....

  • Fireweed geologist standing atop a ridge overlooking Macmillan Pass.

    Fireweed pushes beyond resource Boundary

    A.J. Roan, Mining News|Updated Oct 4, 2024

    Step-out drilling expands Boundary Zone, revealing high-grade zinc, lead, and silver beyond existing resource estimate. Fireweed Metals Corp. Sept. 26 announced a significant expansion of the Boundary Zone at its Macmillan Pass project in Yukon, Canada, revealing new high-grade mineralization that extends beyond the previously defined resource area-which, coming on the heels of a major resource update earlier this year, further enhances the potential of this rapidly growing...

  • : A row of newly installed solar panels at Fireweed Metals’ Macpass project.

    Fireweed, DNDC partner for solar at Macpass

    A.J. Roan, Mining News|Updated Oct 3, 2024

    First Nation-leased solar powers Yukon mining project, reducing emissions and supporting local economic growth. In an effort to reduce emissions and enhance sustainability, Fireweed Metals Corp., Dena Nezziddi Development Corporation (DNDC), and Solvest Inc. have partnered to install a renewable power system at Macpass Camp, a move that advances clean energy integration at the Macmillan Pass (Macpass) zinc-lead-silver exploration project in Yukon, Canada. Based in Ross River,...

  • Fireweed Metals’ crew discuss plans near drill at Tom South target.

    Fireweed triples MacPass zinc resources

    A.J. Roan, Mining News|Updated Sep 16, 2024

    Updated estimate adds Boundary and End Zone deposits, increasing zinc equivalent in indicated resources by 300%. Fireweed Metals Corp. Sept. 5 announced a significant milestone with an updated mineral resource estimate for the company's Macmillan Pass project in Yukon, Canada, marking a 300% increase in zinc equivalent in the indicated resource category for Tom and Jason, and inaugural resource estimates for the Boundary and End Zone deposits. Situated in eastern Yukon,...

  • Geologists marking a surveyed location next to a helicopter.

    Largest regional exploration for Fireweed

    A.J. Roan, Mining News|Updated Jul 11, 2024

    Aims for 14,000 meters between most advanced deposits and new exploration targets. Fireweed Metals Corp. June 5 announced the launch of the largest regional exploration program at the Macmillan Pass project in Yukon, Canada, aiming for 14,000 meters with four rigs at its most advanced deposits. "We are excited to commence the largest regional exploration program Macpass has ever seen," said Fireweed Metals interim CEO Peter Hemstead. "Comprising 6,000 meters of drilling at...

  • Drill pad built in among the valleys of Macpass, Yukon, Canada.

    Fireweed Metals makes an executive change

    A.J. Roan, Mining News|Updated May 17, 2024

    Company sees Brandon Macdonald step down; position to be held by Peter Hemstead in interim. Fireweed Metals Corp. May 3 announced an abrupt change of management with the replacement of its former CEO and director, Brandon Macdonald, for Peter Hemstead, who has been appointed as the interim president and CEO. "On behalf of the board, I would like to thank Brandon for the role he has played in helping build Fireweed into one of Canada's leading base-metal exploration...

  • Drill rig built along the side of a steep slope in Canada’s Yukon.

    Fireweed flagship deposits still surprise

    A.J. Roan, Mining News|Updated Feb 15, 2024

    Fireweed Metals Corp. Feb. 1 announced that the final results from the 2023 drilling at the Tom and Jason deposits on the company's Macmillan Pass zinc-lead-silver project in Yukon, Canada, returned possibly one of the most significant discoveries at the Tom deposit in decades. Accumulating more data for an updated resource estimate, the 2023 program utilized five rigs to complete more than 22,500 meters of diamond drilling at the Boundary, Tom, and Jason deposits at...

  • Geologists inspecting geology on slope at Fireweed’s Macmillan Pass project.

    Last Boundary results exemplify prospect

    A.J. Roan, Mining News|Updated Jan 25, 2024

    Fireweed Metals Corp. Jan. 22 announced the final results from a pivotal 2023 drilling campaign that successfully defined a high-grade feeder zone that joins the Boundary Main and Boundary West targets into the singular Boundary Zone on the company's Macmillan Pass zinc-lead-silver project in Yukon, Canada. Accumulating more data for an inevitable updated resource estimate, the 2023 program utilized five rigs to complete more than 22,500 meters of diamond drilling at the...

  • The northern lights shine brilliantly over the Mackenzie Mountains.

    Fireweed looks back at 2023 successes

    A.J. Roan, Mining News|Updated Jan 25, 2024

    Fireweed Metals Corp. Dec. 28 gave a year-end review of its accomplishments from 2023 and ushered in the new year with expectations to continue advancing its flagship Macmillan Pass zinc-lead-silver-copper project in southeast Yukon, the adjacent world-class Mactung tungsten project spanning the Northwest Territories-Yukon border, and its Gayna River zinc-lead-silver project about 180 kilometers (112 miles) north of MacPass in NWT, Canada. "2023 has been another extraordinary...

  • A huge plume of black smoke above the Eagle Gold mine camp in Canada’s Yukon.

    Gold, critical minerals top Yukon list

    Rose Ragsdale, For Data Mine North|Updated Jan 17, 2024

    Raging wildfires and record hot temperatures challenged the well-laid plans of a score and more of mineral explorers in Canada's Yukon this year as the 2023 field season shifted into high summer. Most of the companies, however, managed to carry out their exploration for gold, silver, copper, and other minerals across the territory. The fierce and sometimes out-of-control blazes marked one of the worst wildfire seasons seen in Canada in nearly 30 years, consuming more than...

  • Helicopters deliver water to battle wildfires near Yellowknife.

    Wildfires upset NWT mineral exploration

    Rose Ragsdale, For Data Mine North|Updated Jan 17, 2024

    With a summer marred by unprecedented wildfires behind them, companies exploring the mineral-rich Northwest Territories are reporting impressive results from their 2023 programs. Seeking new deposits of valuable minerals, ranging from ever-popular diamonds and precious metals to recently designated "critical minerals," such as lithium, rare earth elements and zinc, a score of explorers took to the field across the territory. "An exciting new chapter is emerging for mining in t...

  • Fireweed geologist overlooks Macmillan Pass within Yukon’s Selwyn Basin.

    Fireweed Metals builds upon its successes

    A.J. Roan, Data Mine North|Updated Jan 17, 2024

    Instead of resting on its laurels, Fireweed Metals Corp. aimed for 2023 to be a year that outshined its previous exploration success. With its largest drill program ever at the Macmillan Pass zinc project in the Yukon, the company outdid itself at each turn of the drill and with each intercept received. Add on a mineral resource estimate for the newly dubbed largest known high-grade tungsten deposit in the world, and Fireweed had its most exceptional year ever. Fireweed's...

  • Helicopter perched along the crest of a mountain in Canada’s Yukon.

    New kid on the Canada block: Onyx Gold

    A.J. Roan, Data Mine North|Updated Jan 17, 2024

    As a vehicle for Ontario and gold exploration properties spun out of HighGold Mining Inc., the cleverly named Onyx (ONtario Yukon eXploration) Gold Inc. hit the ground running with an experienced team and the capital to begin exploring as one of Canada's newest mining juniors. HighGold felt its land holdings within the highly prospective and overlapping Tintina and Tombstone gold belts in Yukon's Selwyn Basin and within Ontario's portion of the Abitibi greenstone belt, Canada'...

  • Aerial photograph of Fireweed Metals’ exploration camp in Yukon, Canada.

    Fireweed welcomes year with new best hole

    A.J. Roan, Mining News|Updated Jan 12, 2024

    Fireweed Metals Corp. Jan. 9 announced its newest best intercept to date from drilling at Boundary on the company's Macmillan Pass zinc-lead-silver project in Yukon, Canada. "I am excited to start the year able to say that we have intersected our best-ever Boundary zone drill intersection," said Fireweed Metals CEO Brandon Macdonald. Out of the 52 holes drilled at Macmillan Pass last year, 40 were completed at Boundary, including 36 step-outs that tested vein mineralization,...

  • A valley lake in the mineral-rich mountains on the Yukon-NWT border.

    Junior seeks to tame tungsten elephant

    Rose Ragsdale, For Mining News|Updated Dec 9, 2023

    After establishing its position as a leading zinc-lead-silver explorer in northern Canada, Fireweed Metals Corp. set out in late 2022 to broaden its focus in both geography and commodities. Partly defying the age-old adage to stick to what you know, the longtime explorer of the district-scale Macmillan Pass zinc-lead-silver project ventured across the border into Northwest Territories to acquire two projects. While the Gayna River zinc-lead-silver-gallium-germanium project is...

  • A helicopter sits on a highly mineralized ridge on the King Tut gold property.

    Onyx Gold launches drilling at King Tut

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Oct 25, 2023

    Onyx Gold Corp. Aug. 2 announced the start of a 2,500-meter drill program at King Tut, which the new Canada-focused junior explorer believes to host the best undrilled intrusive-related gold-in-soil anomalies within eastern Yukon's emerging Tombstone Gold Belt not already controlled by Snowline Gold Corp. King Tut is the most advanced of four Yukon properties held by Onyx, a junior exploration company spun out of HighGold Mining Inc. to explore a portfolio of gold properties i...

  • Fireweed Metals crew holding a briefing on a slope at Macmillan Pass, Yukon.

    Fireweed wraps largest drill program ever

    A.J. Roan, Mining News|Updated Oct 25, 2023

    Fireweed Metals Corp. Oct. 24 announced that the 2023 exploration program at its Macmillan Pass project in Yukon, Canada, has come to a close with more than triple the meterage from last year, truly living up to its planned "largest program ever." The company also reports assays from almost half of the total holes drilled for the year. A road-accessible project adjacent to Yukon's border with Northwest Territories, the 940-square-kilometer (363 square miles) Macmillan Pass...

  • Dozens of stacks of core drilled from Fireweed Metals’ Macmillan Pass.

    Assays eclipse Fireweed's best intercepts

    A.J. Roan, Mining News|Updated Aug 24, 2023

    Fireweed Metals Corp. Aug. 22 announced that drills have tapped wide intercepts of spectacular zinc grades at Boundary Zone on the company's Macmillan Pass in Yukon, Canada. Fireweed's 2023 program began by testing a gap between two of the best holes ever drilled at Boundary Zone - NB22-002, which cut 124 meters averaging 12.3% zinc, 1.3% lead, 45.9 grams per metric ton silver, and NB22‑023, which cut 298 meters averaging 4.5% zinc, 1.4% lead, and 30.9 g/t silver. Drilling in...

  • A view of Macmillan Pass from inside the Selwyn Basin.

    Fireweed finds feeder that links Boundaries

    A.J. Roan, Mining News|Updated Jul 27, 2023

    Fireweed Metals Corp. July 26 announced the first batch of assays from its largest drill program ever at the Macmillan Pass project in Canada's Yukon have already delivered game-changing news that links the Boundary Main and Boundary West targets into one continuous zinc-rich zone. A road-accessible project adjacent to Yukon's border with Northwest Territories, the 940-square-kilometer (363 square miles) Macmillan Pass project blankets a roughly 55-kilometer (34 miles) trend...

  • Fireweed geologist surveys Macmillan Pass project within Selwyn Basin.

    Fireweed tacks on gold probe to program

    A.J. Roan, Mining News|Updated Jul 26, 2023

    Fireweed Metals Corp. July 5 announced that in conjunction with the largest-ever planned drill program at Macmillan Pass, the company will conduct reconnaissance prospecting, mapping, and sampling across a series of gold anomalies on this Yukon property best known for its zinc-lead deposits. A road-accessible project adjacent to Yukon's border with Northwest Territories, the 940-square-kilometer (363 square miles) Macmillan Pass project blankets a roughly 55-kilometer (34...

  • Old North American Tungsten Corp. camp at Mactung property.

    World's largest high-grade tungsten deposit

    A.J. Roan, Mining News|Updated Jun 22, 2023

    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...

  • Incredible scenic picture of Macmillan Pass in Yukon, Canada.

    Fireweed starts largest drill program ever

    A.J. Roan, Mining News|Updated Jun 8, 2023

    Fireweed Metals Corp. June 6 announced the start of a planned 16,000-meter drill program at Macmillan Pass in Yukon, Canada, which will be its largest-ever drill program with the goal of expanding the zinc-rich zones at its flagship property. "We are off to a great start and look forward to a game-changing season ahead," said Fireweed Metals CEO Brandon Macdonald. "We are on track to complete the largest ever drill program Fireweed has carried out at Macmillan Pass."...

  • Sunset over Fireweed Metals' Macmillan Pass project in Yukon, Canada.

    Boundary Zone zinc continues to impress

    A.J. Roan, Mining News|Updated Mar 11, 2023

    Fireweed Metals Corp. Feb. 27 announced the latest drill results from its 2022 drill program from Boundary Zone, which includes a noteworthy intercept that cut 105 meters averaging 8.4% zinc and 12.1 grams per metric ton silver from surface, with subsections that show spectacular high-grade zinc mineralization. "Boundary Main Zone continues to impress with not only the wide tenor of mineralization but also with high-grade intervals," said Fireweed Metals CEO Brandon...

  • Fireweed Metals CEO Brandon Macdonald prepping core for examination.

    Last assays from 2022 for Fireweed Metals

    A.J. Roan, Mining News|Updated Mar 9, 2023

    Fireweed Metals Corp. announced the last two rounds of assays from its 2022 drill program at the company's Macmillan Pass project in Yukon, Canada, signaling the receipt of all drill results and setting the stage for its planned largest drill program this year. In quick succession, Fireweed received its second-to-last batch on March 2, with the remaining nine holes rolling in on March 6. The first results are the final assays from Boundary Zone, while the last results received...

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