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Roads to some of Yukon's richest mining districts are getting more than C$360 million in upgrades. Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rolled out the plans to invest in modern transportation infrastructure during a visit to the territory on Sep. 2. "Modern infrastructure is key to developing and properly managing the incredible natural resources we have at our fingertips," Trudeau said. The prime minister pledged C$247.8 million to the Yukon Resource Gateway project, a...
As some of the world's biggest gold miners nab exciting plays that turned up across Yukon Territory during the past decade, Yukon's mining explorers continue to seek the next generation of mine projects in the northwestern-most Canadian territory. Many of the up and coming mines in Yukon also are getting a boost from C$360 million in upgrades to roads into some of Yukon's richest mining districts. Known as the Yukon Resource Gateway project, the endeavor to modernize...
Following up on the discoveries made during a C$1 billion exploration explosion in the Yukon from 2007 until 2013, five of the world's largest gold producers are leading a second wave of the 21st Century Yukon Gold Rush. Kinross Gold Corp., which operates the Fort Knox Mine in neighboring Alaska, was the first of the majors to grab a foothold in the Yukon when it acquired the White Gold property in 2009. The real rush of majors to the westernmost Canada territory, however,...
Triumph Gold Corp. (formerly Northern Freegold Resources) June 7 announced the start of a 13,000-meter drill program at its Freegold Mountain gold-copper project in the Yukon. This drilling is testing a number of new targets identified last year. The 2016 program, which was focused on identifying geological controls on mineralization at the Revenue and Nucleus porphyry deposits, identified an early stage of porphyry-style mineralization that was not targeted during past explor...
Valued at US$4 billion per year, Alaska's mining industry is as healthy as it has ever been. Much of this success is owed to the Alaska Miners Association, which celebrated its 75th anniversary during its annual convention and trade show held in Anchorage Nov. 3-9. The anniversary event also highlighted many of the challenges the association and its constituents face going forward. Under the stewardship of AMA, Alaska boasts six large-scale operating mines churning out gold,...
Opponents of the controversial Pebble Project and the companies that hope to someday develop the massive copper-gold-molybdenum deposit in the Bristol Bay region of Southwest Alaska, each claimed a recent victory in the high profile struggle that has been cast as world-class mine versus a world-class salmon fishery. The win for the Pebble Limited Partnership - a 50-50 joint venture between Anglo American plc and Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. to explore and develop the...
An investor attending the Alaska Miners Association convention in Anchorage mentioned that he was listening intently to all the exploration talks because he was looking for the next Full Metal Minerals. In other words, a junior company that breaks out from the bottom of the stockpile, as it were, and builds a reputation for acquiring promising properties and working diligently on them. For Alaskans the rise of Vancouver-based Full Metal is doubly exciting, since all most all of the company's projects are located in the state....
