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Emerging as a new participant in exploring Canada's North, White Cliff Minerals Ltd. conducted extensive exploration across its properties in Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Focusing on historical mine sites and newly identified targets, the Australian-based company got off to a strong start in pursuit for energy and precious metals. With the acquisition of the Great Bear Lake project and the Coppermine River project in early 2024, White Cliff secured two highly...
Western Copper and Gold Ltd. spent 2024 preparing to advance its world-class Casino copper-gold project to the next level by strengthening its leadership and management, refining metallurgical testing and understanding, and realigning permitting timelines with evolving environmental and regulatory demands to ensure long-term project viability. The beginning of 2024 marked a strategic shift for Western, as the company focused on bolstering its leadership team to guide the...
Western Alaska Minerals Corp.'s 2024 exploration program at Illinois Creek focused on testing targets that lie between two established deposits at opposite ends of a roughly five-mile trend of carbonate replacement deposit (CRD) mineralization on this district-scale exploration project about 300 miles west of Fairbanks, Alaska. Over the previous three seasons, Western had focused much of its exploration on Waterpump Creek, a silver-rich CRD deposit at Illinois Creek. Based on...
In 2024, Vital Metals Ltd. took significant steps to refocus its rare earths strategy at the Nechalacho project in Canada's Northwest Territories, advancing its world-class Tardiff deposit after a challenging year of restructuring and setbacks. Following a turbulent 2023 that saw the bankruptcy of its Canadian subsidiary and the abandonment of its rare earths processing facility in Saskatchewan, Vital Metals restructured its leadership and refocused on the larger, lower-grade...
Following the 2023 merger with Benchmark Metals Inc., Thesis Gold Inc. has focused on completing the exploration and engineering studies that will provide details of a mine that leverages the synergies offered by the neighboring Lawyers and Ranch gold-silver properties in Northern British Columbia's Toodoggone Mining District. "Starting in 2023, we set an ambitious goal to focus our exploration and engineering efforts on optimizing our project establishing a low-cost future pr...
In less than 18 months after listing on the Nasdaq with a $20 million initial public offering, U.S. GoldMining has more than doubled the amount of copper, gold, and silver in indicated resources within the namesake deposit on its Whistler project in the West Susitna Mineral district about 100 miles northwest of Anchorage, Alaska. "This 'trifecta' of commodities in the West Susitna is highly attractive at a time when all are currently experiencing strengthening commodity...
With the sale of its steelmaking coal business to Glencore for $7.3 billion in cash, Teck Resources Ltd. has shifted its focus to being a pure-play energy transition metals company focused on growth. The Vancouver, British Columbia-based mining company has reorganized its copper, zinc, and other energy transition assets in North and Latin America into two regional business units. The North American business unit includes the Highland Valley copper mine in Southern British...
Amidst the growing demand for critical minerals, SPC Nickel Corp. made notable advances in 2024 at its Muskox project in Nunavut, Canada, uncovering exceptional nickel, copper, and platinum group metal (PGM) grades through a high-impact summer exploration program aimed at redefining the potential of this district-scale opportunity. Acquiring the Muskox project in 2021, SPC Nickel has been advancing its district-scale nickel-copper-PGM project, considered one of the last true...
In the world of gold exploration, a 100-meter intercept at one gram per metric ton gold is easily viewed as a major success. For Snowline Gold Corp., however, consistently surpassing this benchmark with 300-, 400- and even 500-meter intercepts – often at higher grades – is routine. As CEO Scott Berdahl put it, these results became "almost commonplace" in 2024 as Snowline's Valley deposit in Yukon continued to set new standards with each drill result reinforcing its gro...
While much of Seabridge Gold Inc.'s focus in 2024 was on forming a joint venture partnership with a major mining company with the wherewithal to develop a world-class mine at its KSM copper-gold-silver-molybdenum project in Northern British Columbia, the company continues to explore its four earlier-staged exploration projects in B.C., Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nevada. According to the most recent calculation, KSM hosts 153.9 million ounces of gold and 54.5 billion...
Marking a transformative year, 2024 saw STLLR Gold Inc. solidify its position as a leading Canadian gold developer through a strategic merger, advancing its cornerstone Colomac and Tower gold projects, and fostering community partnerships to drive its sustainability initiatives. Announced in late November 2023 and finalized in early February 2024, the year began with a significant change as the merger between Nighthawk Gold Corp. and Moneta Gold Inc. brought together two...
Supported financially for another year by Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd., White Gold Corp. put the funding to good use, unveiling new discoveries, expanding district-scale targets, and achieving significant resource growth across its White Gold District in Yukon, Canada, further emphasizing the region's untapped potential. Located roughly 95 kilometers (59 miles) south of Dawson City, the White Gold District covers an expansive 350,000-hectare (864,869 acres) land package that...
