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Mining Explorers 2019 features more than 55 mining and mineral exploration companies investing time, money and resources in unlocking the vast minerals potential of Alaska, northern British Columbia, Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut. North of 60 Mining News dedicates Mining Explorers 2019 to the memory of Julia Lane, a rising geology superstar who will be missed by family, friends, colleagues and one journalist whom she impressed with the enthusiasm of youth and...
Since its founding in 2010, Northern Star Resources Ltd. has built a multi-billion-dollar mining company by breathing new life into aging underground gold mines in Australia. Now, the Perth-based company is applying the same strategy that has proven so successful at home to its newly acquired Pogo gold mine in Interior Alaska. This strategy includes making large investments into the exploration, underground mine development and equipment needed to turn Pogo into a tier-one ass...
Great American Minerals Exploration Inc. is investing roughly US$10 million on exploration this year at its 55,465-acre SAM gold project about 45 miles west of the Pogo Mine. Having staked its first claims in at the SAM project area in 1999, GAME, as the privately held exploration company is commonly known, is no stranger to this emerging gold-rich stretch of the Tintina Gold Belt between the Pogo and Fort Knox mines. GAME's previous land position, however, covered only a...
With the four main deposit at KSM – Kerr, Sulphurets, Mitchell and Iron Cap – advanced to the feasibility stage, Seabridge Gold Inc. shifted the focus of its 2019 exploration on discovery targets beyond the vast copper-gold resources delineated so far across this property in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. A prefeasibility study completed in 2016 detailed a mine for KSM that would produce an average of 540,000 oz gold, 156 million lb copper, 2.2 million oz silver, and 1.2...
With a vision to become a leading base metals mining company, Osisko Metals Inc. is rapidly adding to the stores of zinc at its Pine Point project about 42 kilometers (26 miles) east of Hay River, Northwest Territories. Cominco (now Teck Resources) produced an estimated 14 billion pounds of zinc and 4 billion lb of lead from around 64 million metric tons of ore averaging about 10 percent zinc-lead from a mine operated at Pine Point from 1964 to 1988. The near-surface ore was...
Since achieving commercial production at the Gahcho Kué Mine in 2017, Mountain Province Diamonds Inc. has resumed exploring for more diamonds across the wider property and Kennedy North, an adjacent property the company acquired full ownership of through its purchase of Kennady Diamonds Inc. in 2018. In June, Mountain Province announced the discovery of a new kimberlite roughly 200 meters east of the planned open pit mining area for the Tuzo kimberlite on the Gahcho Kué p...
Western Alaska Copper & Gold is a private exploration company focused on the rich gold, silver, copper and zinc potential of the Illinois Creek Mining District located near the lower Yukon River about 65 miles southwest of the Galena and 120 miles north of the Donlin Gold Mine project. This more than 26,000-acre land package blankets the past producing Illinois Creek gold-silver mine; Round Top, a porphyry copper-molybdenum-silver target; and Honker, a high-grade gold target....
North Arrow Minerals Inc. is exploring seven diamond projects in Canada – Naujaat, Mel and Luxx in Nunavut; Lac de Gras (LDG) and Loki in Northwest Territories; Pikoo in Saskatchewan; and Timiskaming in Ontario. Much of North Arrow's 2019 work focused on Naujaat, the company's most advanced property. In May, the company announced the start of engineering and cost analysis for a small-scale mobile diamond recovery plant to process bulk samples from Q1-4, one of at least e...
Sabina Gold & Silver Corp. budgeted C$41 million towards further de-risking its Back River gold mine project in Nunavut during 2019. A 2015 feasibility study details plans for developing three deposits 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. Sabina gained the permits to...
After nearly 10 years of exploring the Colomac Gold Project in Northwest Territories, Nighthawk Gold Corp. is making progress toward increasing the project's resource in 2020, while strengthening a long-held theory that the project sits in the middle of a potential gold camp that could rival the legendary Timmins Gold Camp of Ontario. Anchored by strategic shareholders Kinross Gold Corp. (9.9 percent), Osisko Royalties Ltd. (8.6 percent) and Northfield Capital (19.1 percent),...
TerraX Minerals Inc. got off to an early start on 2019 exploration at its Yellowknife City Gold Project (YCGP), thanks to the ability to resample historical core drilled there. Working with The Geological Survey of the Northwest Territories and The Giant Mine Remediation Project, TerraX was able to recover 16,000 meters of core from drilling on Northbelt, one of the properties that make up YGCP. In a preliminary review of the core, TerraX geologists identified visible gold and...
When Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. established a foothold in Nunavut roughly a decade ago, the gold mining company saw the northern Canadian Territory as a politically attractive and stable jurisdiction with enormous geological potential. With two new gold mines established in Nunavut this year, this vision is being realized. "We see tremendous potential there and this is an inflection point and a turning point in the future of Agnico as we are opening up a brand-new area where we...
Solstice Gold Corp. completed its first ever drill program at Nunavut (formerly Kahuna), an early stage gold project that borders the east side of Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd.'s Meliadine mine property. "Agnico Eagle's Meliadine mine, which reached commercial production last month, is only seven kilometers (4.4 miles) from Solstice's claims in the Rankin Gold Belt. We are looking forward to drilling targets in the hunt for the next potential gold discovery in an exciting region,"...
With the goal of helping to meet the rocketing demand of graphite needed as anode material for the lithium-ion batteries that power electric vehicles, Graphite One Inc. is focused on advancing its Graphite Creek deposit in western Alaska toward development. A 2017 preliminary economic assessment outlines a roughly 2,800-metric-ton processing facility at Graphite Creek. Once this operation is running at full capacity, which the PEA slates for the sixth year of production, this...
