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Rejoins geological units separated by 300 miles and 52 million years; discovering a clue to Alaska's terrane wreck. The massive Pacific Plate colliding into and sliding past Alaska is causing a slow-moving terrane wreck that is pushing Denali and other Alaska Range mountains up to epic heights, enriching the state with minerals, and creating a dynamic tectonic environment that is witnessed by the magnitude seven-plus earthquakes that shake America's Last Frontier every couple...
President-elect vows to maximize Alaska's mining potential; an aligned Congress swings political pendulum in industry's favor. With an incoming president that favors "reshoring" over "friendshoring" the nation's critical mineral supply chains and a Congress positioned to pass permitting reform and other mining-related legislation that has stalled in one chamber or the other for more than a decade, America's mining sector is poised for growth following the outcome of the Nov....
From water pipelines to hydrogen bomb ports, Alaska holds a history of dreamers as big as the Last Frontier state. As the world steps into a new year brimming with possibilities, a reflection on Alaska's wildest visions through its relatively brief history can offer a glimpse into humanity's boundless imagination. From grandiose pipelines spanning oceans to domed cities beneath the shadow of Denali, the Last Frontier has long been a canvas for audacious ideas that dared to...
Trump's vow to maximize mining in Alaska , ESG benefits of mining in Northern BC, and historic investments in a NWT critical minerals project land on the list. From the launch of a new Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) initiative to position Indigenous youth as next-generation mining leaders to the collapse of the tailings storage facility at Victoria Gold Corp.'s Eagle Mine, North of 60 Mining News delivered more than 570 articles last year covering the...
Aims for 2,000 meters at Canalask nickel-copper project in Yukon. GT Resources Inc. July 8 announced the commencement of diamond drilling at the company's Canalask nickel-copper project in western Yukon, targeting significant electromagnetic anomalies to explore the potential for high-grade nickel-copper sulfide deposits. Formerly Palladium One Mining Inc., GT Resources underwent a rebranding to better reflect a new focus on metals critical to clean transportation, electrical...
Silver47 encouraged by strength of silver-gold mineralization at western edge of Dry Creek. Silver47 Exploration Corp. Nov. 26 continued to make its presence known on the Alaska mineral exploration scene with another batch of assays from drill holes that cut strong silver and zinc mineralization at the Dry Creek deposit on the company's Red Mountain volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) project about 60 miles (100 kilometers) south of Fairbanks. Following its Nov. 14 listing on t...
Drilling at Warm Springs mineralization reminiscent of Illinois Creek to the south and Waterpump Creek to the north. Western Alaska Minerals Corp. Nov. 5 reported that the final six holes of its 2024 drilling at Illinois Creek has added to the evidence that Warm Springs is a critical link along a roughly five-mile (eight kilometers) long trend of carbonate replacement deposit (CRD) mineralization that extends from the gold-rich Illinois Creek deposit to the silver-rich...
Alaska's critical minerals potential to take center stage at AMA convention; antimony and graphite expected to be hot topics. Rising geopolitical tensions around the globe, China's increasing use of critical minerals as a trade war weapon, and the International Energy Agency's forecast that an additional $800 billion needs to be invested into the mining of energy transition metals by 2040 in order to meet global climate ambitions, have political and military leaders looking...
Confirms copper and gold mineralization over a 1,400-meter anomaly on property acquired from the Berdahl family. Yukon Metals Corp. Sept. 3 announced promising results from its initial exploration of the Birch gold-copper project in Yukon, identifying a large copper and gold mineralized system that spans over 1,400 meters and shows potential for economic grades. "We are excited about these first pass results that have clearly identified a copper and gold mineralized system...
Grid Connect Project aims to deliver affordable energy, unlocking potential for mining and economic development. The recent federal investment of C$60 million (US$44.2 million), including C$40 million (US$29.7 million) earmarked for connecting Yukon to the North American power grid, is being welcomed as a promising step toward addressing the territory's longstanding energy challenges, with local industries, particularly mining companies, seeing this infrastructure upgrade as...
Geologists collect high-grade copper-nickel-PGM samples from enormous Norilsk-style project in Nunavut. SPC Nickel Corp. Sept. 9 announced that surface sampling at Muskox has turned up grades as high as 19.5% copper, 9.42% nickel and 107.3 grams per metric ton platinum group metals on this roughly 250-square-mile (650 square kilometers) project in Kitikmeot region of western Nunavut. The company's Muskox property covers a large section of a roughly 90-mile- (150 kilometers)...
Investments will support infrastructure for critical mineral projects in the Golden Triangle and the Yukon. Toward the goal of positioning Canada as a global leader in the production of minerals essential to the clean energy transition, Ottawa is investing C$60 million (US$44.2 million) in energy and transportation infrastructure in the Yukon and British Columbia's Golden Triangle. "These investments are needed to support critical minerals development in the region, improve co...
Incalculable riches, delicate ecosystem, and the green energy future. Deep-sea mining has captured the world's attention as a uniquely promising source of the metals needed for lithium-ion batteries powering the green energy future and a bitterly controversial topic of debate. Undersea deposits contain quantities of nickel, cobalt, copper, and manganese sufficient to replace every U.S. car on the road today with an electric vehicle. They also host some of the most diverse, lit...
Rising demand, lack of domestic supply, and China's dominance. While graphite has not captured the same level of media attention as some of the other mined materials critical to the clean energy transition, the strategic nature of this largest ingredient in lithium-ion batteries powering electric vehicles is high on the list of concerns for American automakers, Washington policymakers, and the Pentagon's top brass. These worries are based on a trifecta of graphite...
Indispensable, expensive, and rare – PGMs get a green upgrade. Back in 1950, the first catalytic converter in the United States was a box bolted onto a car's undercarriage to reduce tailpipe emissions. It was patented by French mechanical engineer Eugene Houdry, who was concerned about the effects of automobile exhaust on the good people of Los Angeles. And it would have worked if it had not been for the octane-boosting lead then being added to fuel, which could choke any c...
Will the controversial metal find its place in green tech? About 30 years ago, nobody thought much about cobalt. Today, this metal, with myriads of uses, is one of those elements that gets dragged into the spotlight due to the role it plays in electric vehicle batteries, with critics citing the disparity between the environmental and social costs of producing cobalt and the green tech solutions this critical metal enables. But we can't build a clean energy future without...
Western Alaska Minerals encounters silver-zinc-lead zone below the gold-copper mineralization reported in August. Western Alaska Minerals Corp. Sept. 10 reported that this year's drilling encountered a zone of high-grade silver-zinc-lead mineralization at the Warm Springs target at Illinois Creek that has the potential to be much larger than the Waterpump Creek deposit already outlined on this property about 300 miles west of Fairbanks, Alaska. In late August, the company repo...
Western Alaska cuts gold-copper mineralization at Warms Springs that may represent new spoke of the CRD system. Western Alaska Minerals Corp. Aug. 29 reported that drills encountered two gold zones at Warm Springs that could represent a new spoke along a trend of carbonate replacement deposit mineralization that extends roughly five miles (eight kilometers) across the Illinois Creek property in Alaska. CRD deposits are created when mineralized fluids enriched with metals...
Plans for 13,000 meters between six targets, allocates 5,000 meters for Cowley. Gladiator Metals Corp. Aug. 27 announced the restart of drilling at its high-grade Cowley Park copper project in Yukon as part of a fully funded 13,000-meter summer program aimed at both resource expansion and exploration. Located a stone's throw from the capital of Yukon, the Whitehorse Copper project is a 5,280-hectare (13,294 acres) copper-molybdenum-silver-gold skarn exploration project that...
U.S. GoldMining and Nova Minerals work side-by-side to advance gold, copper, and antimony projects at end of West Susitna Road. WEST SUSTINA MINERAL DISTRICT – The 4,000-foot Whiskey Bravo airstrip about 100 miles northwest of Anchorage as the Cessna 206 flies is serving as the operational headquarters of an emerging Alaska mining district with the potential to be a domestic source of minerals and metals critical to America's economic wellbeing, national security, and clean e...
Company delays permitting to mid-2025 for additional environmental reviews and First Nations talks. Western Copper and Gold Corp. Aug. 12 announced that it has delayed the permitting timeline for its flagship Casino copper project in the Yukon, pushing back its application to mid-2025. The company cites the need for more thorough environmental assessments and consultations with First Nations as key factors for the extension. Situated roughly 300 kilometers (186 miles)...
Identifies significant potential with new pegmatite discoveries at Reid-Aylmer. Midas Minerals Ltd. July 10 announced the discovery of 17 new spodumene-bearing pegmatites across a four-kilometer (2.5 miles) trend at its recently staked Reid-Aylmer lithium project in Northwest Territories, Canada. Acquired in October 2023, the Reid-Aylmer project covers a 157-square-kilometer (60 square miles) land package roughly 330 kilometers (205 miles) northeast of the capital of NWT,...
Begins comprehensive, multifaceted program to better understand highly prospective project. Trifecta Gold Ltd. July 16 announced that crew and equipment have been mobilized to carry out an exploration program to further delineate known zones of mineralization and identify new targets at its Mt. Hinton gold-silver project in Yukon, Canada. Trifecta Gold is a Canadian-based precious metals exploration company that holds projects in Yukon and Nevada. These include the Yuge gold...
Western Copper and Gold inches toward startup at its giant Casino copper porphyry deposit as others advance earlier stage projects. While one would-be miner in Canada's Yukon Territory guides its giant copper project toward development, several juniors – ranging from newcomers to more established players – are picking up the pace in the search for other rich deposits of the red metal. Western Copper and Gold Corp. is marking its 16th year of working to develop its huge Cas...
Plans to carry out mapping and geophysics in preparation for drilling at high-grade copper-silver-zinc-cobalt project in Nunavut. Aston Bay Holdings Ltd. June 27 reported that it is gearing up for an exploration program focused on defining drill targets at Epworth, a western Nunavut property that covers a roughly 46-mile- (74 kilometers) trend of high-grade copper mineralization reminiscent of the deposits in the Central African Copper Belt. The sediment-hosted copper...
