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As 2023 raced toward its final weeks, mining explorers working in Canada's northernmost territory wrapped up ambitious campaigns to identify new deposits of various lucrative minerals, ranging from cobalt to copper and gold to uranium. Both mineral production and exploration spending in Nunavut decreased in 2022 compared with the previous year's totals, and another drop is expected for 2023. Natural Resources Canada earlier projected a 28% decrease in planned spending for...
Board okays 3.3M oz Nunavut mine, first gold pour slated for 2025 It's official, Sabina Gold & Silver Corp. is moving forward with the development of the Goose Mine on the company's Back River gold project in Nunavut, Canada. "This is a milestone decision for the company," said Sabina Gold President and CEO Bruce McLeod. A feasibility study that was updated in 2021 envisions a mine at the Goose deposit that will produce 3.34 million ounces of gold over an initial 15 years of...
Sabina Gold & Silver Corp. April 20 reported that the 2021 predevelopment and exploration programs are now underway at its Back River gold project in Nunavut. "We have a busy year planned at Back River for 2021," said Sabina Gold President and CEO Bruce Mcleod. "Camp is now up and running and we are looking forward to another successful year, accomplishing the necessary activities to continue to advance the project towards a production decision." The 2021 predevelopment work...
Sabina Gold & Silver Corp. Jan. 20 reported it has added roughly 2 million ounces of gold to the mineral resources at Back River, which will serve as the basis for an updated feasibility study for the gold mine project in Nunavut. Back River now hosts 33.45 million metric tons of measured and indicated resources averaging 5.88 grams per metric ton (6.32 million oz) gold; and 13.79 million metric tons of inferred resource averaging 6.44 g/t (2.86 million oz) gold. "Since our...
When Sabina Gold & Silver Corp. acquired the Back River gold project in Canada's far north in 2009, the junior set out to tame a baby elephant. More than a decade later, the project has tripled in size and is still growing. Located in remote southwestern Nunavut in the Kitikmeot Region, the Back River Property is located some 520 kilometers northeast of Yellowknife, NT, and 95 kilometers (58 miles) southeast of Bathurst Inlet. The project is named for the nearby Back River,...
Sabina Gold & Silver Corp. Dec. 9 released the final batch of results from the roughly 8,000 meters of drilling completed this year at the company's Back River gold project in Nunavut, Canada. "Sabina is proud to have delivered a number of significant exploration successes this year," said Sabina Gold & Silver President and CEO Bruce McLeod. "This was accomplished while operating within a restricted safety framework that has protected our employees, contractors and community...
Sabina Gold & Silver Corp. Dec. 2 reported that an updated feasibility study for the proposed Goose Mine on its Back River gold project in Nunavut is slated for completion early in 2021. A feasibility study completed in 2015 details plans for developing four deposits at the Goose mine project – Goose, Llama, Umwelt, and Umwelt Underground. Ore from these deposits would feed a 3,000-metric-ton-per-day mill forecast to produce an average of roughly 200,000 ounces of gold per y...
Sabina Gold & Silver Corp. Oct. 13 reported additional high-grade gold intercepts from drilling of the upper portions of the corridor at the Umwelt Underground resource at its Back River gold project in Nunavut. A feasibility study completed in 2015 details plans for a 3,000-metric-tons-per-day mine at Goose, one of the properties that comprise the larger Back River project. This proposed mine is forecast to produce roughly 2.3 million ounces of gold over an 11.8-year mine...
Sabina Gold & Silver Corp. June 30 announced it now holds all of the major authorizations to develop and operate a mine at its Back River gold project in Nunavut, Canada. A 2015 feasibility study details plans for developing a mine at Goose, one of seven properties that make up Sabina's larger Back River project. Ore from these deposits would feed a 3,000-metric-ton-per-day mill forecast to produce an average of 198,100 ounces of gold annually over an 11.8-year mine life....
All exploration in the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut in 2013 was carried out in search of gold and base metals. Mid-tier and major companies conducted most of the work, with mineral exploration and deposit appraisal expenditures totaling an estimated C$121 million in the northern territory's westernmost region. MMG Resources Inc. continued work at its Izok Corridor and Hood zinc-copper projects. The Izok Corridor project includes the High Lake and Izok Lake volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits. Exploration on the Izok Corridor...
There's nothing like getting an early start, especially when it comes to mining exploration in Canada's Far North. Literally, there's nothing like the 2013 program that Prosperity Goldfields Corp. kicked off in late February at its Kiyuk Lake Project to the east in southern Nunavut nor the 2013 field campaign launched about the same time by Kaminak Gold Corp. at the Coffee Gold Project in Yukon Territory. In a year when many mining companies are having to scrape together enough exploration funds to even mount a field program...
