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With the September completion of a feasibility study that details a very economically robust gold-silver mine at Eskay Creek, Skeena Resources Ltd. has focused its drilling on near-surface mineralization that could extend the life of this future mine in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Over the nine years of operations considered in the feasibility study, the open pit mine proposed for Eskay Creek would produce 2.42 million ounces of gold and 66.7 million oz of silver from...
Eskay Mining Corp. Dec. 15 reported that its 2022 drilling has expanded the TV-Jeff volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits on its namesake gold-silver project in Northern British Columbia. Covering a corridor of VMS mineralization trending south from Skeena Resources Ltd.'s Eskay Creek gold-silver project, and lying between Seabridge Gold Corp.'s KSM project to the east and Garibaldi Resources Corp.'s Nickel Mountain project to the west, Eskay's property lies at the heart of so...
Skeena Resources Ltd. Nov. 8 reported that its 2022 drilling has cut high-grade gold-silver mineralization to the south of and below the Eskay Creek open pit mine detailed in a feasibility study completed in September. This operation is expected to produce 2.42 million ounces of gold and 66.7 million oz of silver over an initial nine years of mining based on the 46.5 million metric tons of open pit minable measured and indicated resources averaging 2.6 grams per metric ton...
Drills tap gold-silver in former waste rock of proposed pit Skeena Resources Ltd. Sept. 6 announced the first batch of assay results from a 2022 drill program focused largely on supplementing the existing mine plan for its Eskay Creek gold-silver project in Northern British Columbia with additional near-surface mineralization amenable to open pit mining. A feasibility study released by the company on Sept. 8 details an open pit mine at Eskay Creek that would produce 2.42...
Garibaldi Resources Corp. May 13 reported that early-stage exploratory drilling at the Casper target on its Nickel Mountain property in British Columbia's Golden Triangle cut gold mineralization along 260 meters strike length of the quartz-gold vein system. Located about 11 miles (18 kilometers) southwest of the historic Eskay Creek Mine, Nickel Mountain is best known for the E&L zone, a high-grade magmatic nickel-copper-cobalt massive sulfide discovery surrounded by a...
Despite a season challenged by heavy rains and an early snowstorm, the massive amount of exploration carried out in Northern British Columbia during 2021 piled loads of drill core and surface samples on assay labs already severely backlogged by COVID-19 protocols and restrictions that slowed the flow of samples in and data out of these facilities. Just how busy was the 2021 exploration season across the northern half of BC? According to North of 60 Mining News calculations,...
Bonanza gold grades tapped during Ascot Resources Ltd.'s 2020 drill program can only sweeten what is shaping up to be an economically robust operation at its Premier Mine project just outside of Stewart, British Columbia. A 2020 feasibility study for the resumption of mining at Premier envisions four mines in the Stewart area – Silver Coin, Big Missouri, Red Mountain and Premier – providing ore to the existing 1990s era mill. At 2,500 metric tons per day, this operation is...
Garibaldi Resources Corp. June 1 announced that crews have arrived at the camp at Nickel Mountain for a 2021 exploration program that will further explore the battery metals for which this Northern British Columbia project is renowned, as well as to follow up on precious metals for which the Golden Triangle is renowned. "The growing demand for critical metal sources required to drive the new green economy, and precious metals to protect against increasing inflation, was the...
Skeena Resources Ltd. May 20 reported high-grade gold intercepts from its 2021 phase-3 infill and exploration drill program at Snip, home to a historic high-grade underground mine in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Operated by Barrick in the 1990s, the historic Snip Mine produced 1.1 million ounces of gold from 1.25 million metric tons of ore averaging 27.5 grams per metric ton gold. Twin, the most prolific of the high-grade zones mined by Barrick, produced 709,601 oz of g...
Challenged by a global pandemic and a particularly wet summer, many of Northern British Columbia's mineral explorers became adept to adjusting on the fly as they endeavored to unlock the rich precious, base, and battery metals potential of this section of the Pacific Cordillera. With companies like Skeena Resources Ltd. and Ascot Resources Inc. running year-round drill programs as they seek to establish a new era of gold-silver mines at historic operations in the Golden Triang...
Enduro Metals Corp. is focused on expanding the gold, silver, and copper mineralization being exposed by the rapidly retreating glaciers on its 638-square-kilometer (246 square miles) Newmont Lake project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Formerly known as Crystal Lake Mining Corp., in mid-2020 this exploration company changed its name to Enduro Metals to reflect the persistence and optimism of the company's new leadership. Situated about 30 kilometers (19 miles)...
With robust support from the investment community, encouragement from Barrick Gold Corp., and a strong working relationship with the Tahltan First Nation, Skeena Resources Ltd. is rapidly advancing towards the reopening of Eskay Creek and Snip – iconic precious metals mines in the heart of British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Both these high-grade gold and silver operations were previously operated by Barrick. Over a 14-year span ending in 2008, an underground mine at Eskay C...
Skeena Resources Ltd. Jan. 6 reported additional high-grade gold and silver intercepts at its Eskay Creek mine project in Northern British Columbia, including a previous undiscovered area of at surface mineralization that could increase resource tonnage and reduce the strip ratio at 22 Zone. Located about 1,000 meters southwest of the five contiguous zones that make up the primary resource area at Eskay Creek, 22 Zone is envisioned to be mined from a separate open pit. A 2019...
Skeena Resources Ltd. Dec. 8 reported that the phase-1 drill program at Eskay Creek continues to verify the expected grades, thickness and continuity of mineralization modelled in 22 Zone and encountered a new pod of high-grade gold-silver mineralization about 200 meters to the northeast. Located about 1,000 meters southwest of the five contiguous zones that make up the primary resource area at Eskay Creek, 22 Zone is envisioned to be mined from a separate open-pit. Skeena rep...
Ascot Resources Ltd. Oct. 8 reported that drilling has tapped high-grade silver mineralization at the aptly named Silver Hill, an exploration target about 2,000 meters northeast of the planned underground development at Big Missouri on the company's Premier gold-silver mine project in Northwest British Columbia. Big Missouri is one of four mine areas slated to deliver ore to the existing 1990s era mill at Premier, according to a feasibility study completed earlier this year fo...
Crystal Lake Mining Corp. June 22 reported the first high-grade gold mineralization, along with additional copper, gold, silver, zinc, and lead mineralization tapped while testing three target areas at Burgundy Ridge on the company's 551-square-kilometer (213 square miles) Newmont Lake property in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Situated about 30 kilometers (19 miles) northwest of Skeena Resources' Eskay Creek project and about the same distance southeast of Teck...
Garibaldi Resources Corp. Jan. 22 reported wide near-surface intervals of nickel- and copper-rich mineralization from nine holes drilled last year at Nickel Mountain, a magmatic sulfide system about 11 miles (18 kilometers) southwest of the past producing Eskay Creek Mine in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Garibaldi first tapped the nickel- and copper-rich E&L intrusion at Nickel Mountain in 2017. This hole, EL-17-14, cut 16.75 meters averaging 8.3 percent nickel, 4.2...
Skeena Resources Ltd. Oct. 22 said drills have tapped high-grade gold in newly identified mineralized horizon below the current resource at the Eskay Creek project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Skeena, which acquired Eskay Creek from Barrick Gold Corp. in 2017, is focused on expanding and upgrading near surface, high-grade gold resources that could be developed into an open pit mine. According to a resource calculated early in 2019, Eskay Creek hosts 12.71 million...
Ascot Resources Ltd. Sept. 24 said it has completed its roughly 44,000 meters of resources expansion and upgrade drilling at the Big Missouri, Silver Coin and Premier deposit areas and has begun grassroots exploration across its wider land package near the town of Stewart, British Columbia. This discovery-focused program, recently approved by the Ascot board of directors, will include 3,000 to 5,000 meter of drilling testing four targets, as well as additional ground geophysic...
Garibaldi Resources Corp. Sept. 12 reported assay results from the longest massive sulfide and mineralization intercepts so far at Nickel Mountain, a magmatic nickel- and copper-rich sulfide system about 11 miles (18 kilometers) southwest of the past producing Eskay Creek Mine in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Garibaldi first tapped the nickel- and copper-rich E&L intrusion at Nickel Mountain in 2017. This hole, EL-17-14, cut 16.75 meters averaging 8.3 percent nickel, 4.2...
Skeena Resources Ltd. Sept. 9 announced that infill drilling at its Eskay Creek project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle has discovered a previously unidentified vent carrying high-grade gold and silver. According to a resource calculated in February, Eskay Creek hosts 12.71 million metric tons of surface mineable indicated resource averaging 4.5 grams per metric ton (1.8 million ounces) gold and 117 g/t (47.79 million oz) silver; and 13.57 metric tons of surface...
Whether it be precious metals such as gold and silver, base metals like copper and zinc, or battery metals like nickel and cobalt, northern British Columbia is rich in the type of metal deposits that junior mining companies are hoping to discover and majors are wanting to mine. Couple this mineral endowment with good infrastructure – especially stacked up against the other jurisdictions in the North of 60 Mining News coverage area – and northern B.C. continues to draw str...
Skeena Resources Ltd. hopes to breathe new life into Eskay Creek and Snip, iconic Golden Triangle gold mines previously operated by Barrick Gold Corp. Over a 14-year span ending in 2008, an underground mine at Eskay Creek produced roughly 3.3 million ounces of gold and 160 million oz of silver at average grades of 45 grams per metric ton gold and 2,224 g/t silver, which at the time made it the world's highest-grade gold mine and fifth-largest silver mine by volume. The high-gr...
Crystal Lake Mining Corp. is finding plentiful copper, gold and silver mineralization emerging from the rapidly retreating glaciers on its Newmont Lake project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Situated about 30 kilometers (19 miles) northwest of Skeena Resources' Eskay Creek project and about the same distance southeast of Teck Resources and Newmont Goldcorp's Galore Creek project, Newmont Lake is in an area renowned for world-class deposits rich in copper and gold. NW...
At a time when electric vehicles are driving up nickel demand, Garibaldi Resources Inc. is unveiling an extremely high-grade deposit of this battery metal at its Nickel Mountain project about 18 kilometers (11 miles) southwest of the historic Eskay Creek Mine in the heart of British Columbia's Golden Triangle. "Increasingly, Nickel Mountain represents an important new discovery within the Eskay Rift," said Peter Lightfoot, a technical advisor to Garibaldi and nickel geology...
