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The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
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AEM: TSX / NYSE President and CEO: Sean Boyd Senior Vice President, Operations: Yvon Sylvestre Senior Vice President, Exploration: Alain Blackburn Mid-tier gold producer Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd. is focused on its advanced-stage Meliadine project and its Meadowbank Gold Mine located in central Nunavut. The Meliadine project, acquired by Agnico-Eagle in 2010, covers more than 80 kilometers (50 miles) of a greenstone belt, and is one of the company's primary exploration focuses. As of Dec. 31, 2012, Meliadine had reserves of 3 mi...
Led by a petroleum engineer with a 25-year history in the oil and gas industry, Contango ORE Inc., known as Core, may be the most unconventional mineral exploration company working in Alaska. Yet, while most of the company's more orthodox colleagues were unable to raise the venture capital needed to mount significant exploration campaigns during 2013, the Houston, Texas-based junior topped its coffers with a US$14.2 million private placement that closed in March. Core...
AXR:TSX / AXU:NYSE-A President and CEO: Clynton Nauman Executive Vice President and COO: Brad Thrall Vice President, Exploration: Alan McOnie Alexco Resource Corp. is focused on unlocking value in the historic silver-rich Keno Hill district, which covers about 23,350 hectares, or 56,274 acres, in central Yukon Territory and a growing environmental consulting and reclamation and mine closure business. Alexco's primary exploration objective in 2013 was the Flame & Moth and Bermingham properties, as well as targets on the...
Market-defying mineral exploration grabbed the spotlight in British Columbia throughout 2013, despite the doldrums that appeared to set in north of the 60th parallel. "British Columbia is blessed with an abundant supply of the resources the world needs and the most innovative mining and exploration sectors," British Columbia Premier Christy Clark touted the phenomenon at the 2013 Mineral Exploration Roundup in January. Still, Clark told the crowd that she doubted B.C. exploration could top the record C$462 million spent in...
ARA: TSX-V Interim Chairman, President and CEO: Jason Brewster Chief Financial Officer: Harvey McKenzie Lead Director: Denis Clement Anconia Resources Corp. followed up earlier exploration in 2013 on its Atlas Group of claims located about 170 kilometers (105.4 miles), south of Baker Lake in the Kivalliq region of Nunavut. The Atlas properties, formerly known as the Zac and Marce properties, cover about 35.4 square kilometers (13.7 square miles) and host the Atlas-1 discovery made in 2012 as well as the Zac occurrence and...
The 6.4 million ounces of low-cost silver recovered from the Greens Creek Mine in Southeast Alaska during 2012 is funding growth aspirations at Hecla Mining Co., including a foray into Canada's mining sector. This growth begins with the first silver production from the Lucky Friday Mine since the Idaho operation was put out of commission for safety and operational upgrades at the end of 2011. With the Idaho operation scaling back up to full capacity in 2013, Hecla is looking...
President: Ming An Fu Geologist: Wanjin Yang Anthill Resources Ltd., a privately held mining investment company, is focused on the Einarson Project located in east-central Yukon Territory adjacent to the Rackla Project being explored by Atac Resources Ltd. Multiple Carlin pathfinder anomalies are found here in a Carlin-favorable geological setting. Anthill optioned Einarson, a package of 11,597 claims covering more than 2,400 square kilometers (926 square miles) from Yukon prospector Ron Berdahl who staked it on the premise...
Northwest Territories continued to benefit in 2013 from a recent surge of exploration interest. A vast expanse of mountains, forests and tundra that is roughly two-thirds the size of Alaska, the territory covers 1.17 million square kilometers (431,162 square miles). "We have, in the North, what the world wants - what emerging markets need," Northwest Territories Premier Robert "Bob" McLeod told an audience at a Prospects North gathering in Yellowknife Sept. 11. "We are the third-largest diamond producer in the world. In...
As NovaCopper Inc. continues to adds to the more than 5.5 billion pounds of copper it has identified at the highly prospective Ambler mining district, the explorer is beginning to formulate a plan to develop the first of three ultra-high-grade deposits in this highly prospective but remote region of Northwest Alaska. The Vancouver B.C.-based junior launched into 2013 with the February release of a maiden NI 43-101-compliant mineral resource estimate for South Reef, one of two...
ATC: TSX-V President: Robert Carne Chief Executive Officer: Graham Downs Chief Operating Officer: Ian Talbot Atac Resources Ltd., a member of the Strategic Exploration Group, followed up in 2013 several past seasons of exploration success on the Rackla Gold project located in the Mayo Mining District of east-central Yukon Territory. The project encompasses more than 8,000 mineral claims and covers 1,700 square kilometers (about 656 square miles) in an east-west extending land package more than 185 kilometers (114 miles) long...
There is a reason why Nunavut has one of the fastest-growing economies in Canada: mining. With one operating gold mine at Meadowbank, two huge projects on the verge of startup at Hope Bay and Mary River, five projects advancing through the environmental assessment process at Meliadine, Back River, Hackett River, and the Izok corridor as well as exploration activities continuing across all three regions of the territory in 2013, there's little wonder that Nunavut's "time has come." "Mining has the best potential to create...
With roughly C$216.6 million in the bank at the end of the third quarter, Novagold Resources Inc. is well-positioned to complete permitting at its Donlin Gold project in Alaska and continue exploration at its Galore Creek copper-gold project in British Columbia. "These are turbulent times in the business, but we have got the cash to see us through the permitting," Novagold President Greg Lang told attendees at the Denver Gold Forum. Ahead of the financial tempest that is battering most of the titanic gold producers and...
AVL: TSX President and CEO: Donald Bubar Senior Vice President, Metallurgy: Dave Marsh Vice-President, Exploration: William Mercer Avalon Rare Metals explored six of its seven properties in 2013, but focused most of its attention on the advanced Nechalacho rare earth elements project located at Thor Lake, Northwest Territories some 100 kilometers (62 miles) southeast of Yellowknife. The property is comprised of five contiguous mining leases totaling 10,449 acres (4,249 hectares) and three claims totaling 4,597 acres (1,869...
BOZ: TSX-V President and CEO: Benjamin Mossman Chief Geologist: Dirk Meckert Chief Financial Officer: Sharon Muzzin Banks Island Gold Ltd. was organized in 2010 by partners Ben Mossman and Jason Nickel on the premise that the resurgence of precious metals as money is a permanent and long-term trend that offers significant mining opportunities. The company is exploring the Yellow Giant mineral property (formerly Banks Island mineral property), located on the west coast of Banks Island about 110 kilometers (68 miles) south of...
Asubstantial amount of exploration activity continued apace in Yukon Territory this season despite the truncated budgets that forced most mining companies to juggle their projects and priorities. Some exploration companies found creative ways to raise capital, turning out their pockets to return to Yukon in 2013 to explore for Carlin-style gold mineralization in the east-central region of the territory, for more gold-bearing structures in the White Gold and Klondike districts to the west and for other styles and types of...
After spending more than half a billion dollars to take the Pebble Project to the cusp of permitting, Anglo American plc has pulled out of The Pebble Limited Partnership, an alliance it forged six years ago with junior Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. to gain a 50 percent stake in one of the largest copper-gold-molybdenum deposits on the planet. According to the most recent published resource estimate, Pebble contains 80.6 billion pounds of copper, 107.4 million ounces of gold...
BBB: TSX Chairman and CEO: Gary Thompson Director: George Salamis, Geologist Senior Vice President Geology: Sorin Posescu Brixton Metals Corp. returned in 2013 to its flagship 27,000-hectare (66,717 acres) Thorn silver-gold-copper-zinc-lead property located in the Sutlahine River area of northwestern British Columbia some 130 kilometers (81 miles) southwest of Atlin. Hecla Mining Co. made a C$2.6 million strategic investment in Brixton in February, purchasing about 19.8 percent of the junior's issued and outstanding common...
CZX: TSX-V Chairman, President and CEO: Peeyush Varshney Vice President Exploration: Ken MacDonald Director: Henry Giegerich Canada Zinc Metals Corp. is focused on the Akie and Kechika Regional projects in northeastern British Columbia. The flagship Akie property hosts the Cardiac Creek Sedex zinc-lead-silver deposit. The Kechika regional project, represented by a series of property blocks including Pie and Mt. Alcock, extends northwest from the Akie property for about 140 kilometers (87 miles) covering the highly prospective...
CZN: TSX Chairman, President and CEO: John Kearney VICE PRESIDENT, EXPLORATION: Alan Taylor Vice President, Permitting and Environmental Affairs: David Harpley Canadian Zinc Corp. focused in 2013 on the Prairie Creek Mine, an advanced-staged, partially developed zinc-lead-silver property located in the Northwest Territories. Prairie Creek is an underground operation that will utilize multiple mining methods to access readily available ore. The company has the majority of the required infrastructure in place, including a...
TSX: CFB Chairman, President and CEO: Victor Wyprysky Chief Operating Officer: Keith Boyle Executive Vice President, Corporate Development: Peter Chodos Chieftain Metals Inc. remains focused on re-opening the Tulsequah Chief Mine, a precious metals-rich volcanic massive sulfide deposit on British Columbia's western border about 65 kilometers (40 miles) northeast of Juneau. The Tulsequah deposit has an indicated resource of 6 million metric tons grading 1.42 percent copper, 6.44 percent zinc, 1.23 percent lead,...
CXO: TSX-V President and CEO: Adam Travis Executive Chairman: Larry Nagy Vice President, Exploration: Greg Dawson Chief Geoscientist: Jim Oliver Colorado Resources Ltd. focused in 2013 primarily on exploring its North ROK and 75-percent-optioned Eldorado properties near the Red Chris mine development area about 70 kilometers (43 miles) south of Dease Lake in northwestern British Columbia. North ROK is comprised of 14 mineral tenures covering 5,188 hectares (12,820 acres). The company also owns the Hit and Heart Peaks properti...
CSL: TSX-V President and CEO: Rasool Mohammad Vice President, Exploration: Duncan McBean Consultant: Jerry Blackwell, Geologist In 2013, Comstock Metals Ltd. followed up recent gold discoveries at its flagship QV project in the prolific White Gold District of the Yukon Territory. The QV property covers 14,180 hectares (35,000 acres) located about 70 kilometers (45 miles) south of Dawson City. In its 2013 phase 1 drill program on the VG zone at QV, Comstock completed nine core holes totaling 2,188 meters. The drilling...
WCC: TSX President and CEO: William (Bill) Morton Vice President: Glen Garratt Senior Technical Advisor: Tom Schroeter Gold Fields Horsefly Exploration Corp. and its joint venture partner, Consolidated Woodjam Copper Corp., started a 2013 field program in April at the Woodjam copper-gold project. The companies followed up on 2012 exploration at the 56,500-hectare (139,612 acres) Woodjam North and Woodjam South copper-gold-molybdenum properties located 50 kilometers (31 miles) east of Williams Lake in central British...
CEM: TSX.V Chairman: Wayne Livingstone President and CEO: Garfield MacVeigh Vice President, Exploration: Darwin Green After two seasons of focusing its exploration efforts on gold properties in the Yukon Territory and Ontario, Constantine Metal Resources Ltd. returned to Southeast Alaska to expand Glacier Creek, a high-grade volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit at its Palmer project. The renewed focus on its flagship property is largely attributable to US$22 million option and joint venture agreement that Constantine forged...
CUU: TSX-V Chairman, President and CEO: Elmer Stewart Chief Financial Officer: Catherine Henderson Senior Technical Advisor: Tom Schroeter In 2013, Copper Fox Metals culminated more than a decade of successful exploration of its Schaft Creek porphyry copper, gold, molybdenum and silver project in northwestern British Columbia by enticing Teck Resources Ltd. to enter a 75-25 joint venture with the junior and assume operatorship of the project. Schaft Creek is located due east-northeast of Petersburg, Alaska, about 61...
