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Trilogy Metals Inc. April 19 said recently completed metallurgical testing demonstrates that excellent metals recoveries and clean copper and zinc concentrates can be generated from the copper-lead-zinc-gold-silver ores at Arctic, a volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit at the Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects in Northwest Alaska. During 2016, Trilogy completed four holes targeting mineralized material that is planned to be mined during the first seven years of production at...
Trilogy Metals Inc. April 25 reported that the Arctic deposit at its Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects in Northwest Alaska now contains 2.4 billion pounds of copper and 3.4 billion lb of zinc in the indicated resource category, a roughly 40 percent increase for both metals. At a 0.5 percent copper-equivalent cut-off grade, the Arctic deposit is estimated to contain in-pit 36 million metric tons of in-pit indicated resources averaging 3.07 percent (2.4 billion lb) copper, 4.23 percent (3.4 billion lb) zinc, 0.73 percent (581...
South32 Ltd., a coal and base metals miner spun out of BHP Billiton in 2015, has cut a US$150 million deal with Trilogy Metals Inc. to earn up to a 50 percent interest in the Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects, UKMP, a large land package that blankets most of the Ambler Mining District in Northwest Alaska. South32, which up to this point was focused on the Southern Hemisphere, has eight mines in Australia, Africa and South America that produce aluminum, coal, manganese, nickel and...
U.S. Bureau of Land Management April 7 announced a nine-month extension of the scoping period for the Ambler Road project, a proposed 211-mile road that would run west from the Dalton Highway along the southern foothills of the Brooks Range to the Ambler Mining District. In February, BLM announced a 90-day scoping period for the project that was slated to expire on May 31. That expiration has now been extended to Jan. 31, 2018, for a total of 338 days of scoping. Tim La Marr, manager of BLM's Central Yukon field office, said...
With winter programs winding down and summer efforts rapidly ramping up, it is becoming clear that 2017 will be a much more vigorous year for the Alaska mining industry than the 2013 to 2016 period. For example, my internal estimates are already pushing $75 million for exploration activity alone and a significant number of projects that have announced exploration plans have not yet announced budgets for 2017, so that number is likely to rise. Compare this to estimates of less...
Trilogy Metals Inc. June 12 said a US$10 million exploration program is now underway at Bornite, a high grade copper deposit at the company's Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects in Northwest Alaska. Funded by South32 Ltd., a coal and base metals miner spun out of BHP Billiton in 2015, this program will include 12,000 meters of drilling focused on extending the copper mineralization last drilled by Trilogy in 2013. "We have waited three long years to be able to come back and drill at Bornite," said Trilogy President and CEO Rick Van...
The summer solstice has come and gone, but the Alaska mining industry has paid little attention to the decreased amount of daylight because it is high summer in the high latitudes, time to be out completing work programs that have been in the planning since last fall. Exploration drilling programs have sprouted in the Brooks Range, Interior, Alaska Range, Southeast, Southwest and the Alaska Peninsula. In addition, the sounds of tire-kicking are being heard over a wide area of...
