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NFR: TSX President and CEO: John Burges, B.Sc., P.Geo. Chairman: John Anderson Vice President, Exploration: Paul Reynolds B. Sc., P. Geo. Constrained by the tight financial markets, Northern Freegold Resources Ltd. explored its road-accessible Freegold Mountain gold and copper project located in central Yukon Territory with limited programs in 2012, after delivering an initial NI 43-101 resource estimate in January of 3.7 million ounces gold-equivalent at a 0.5 grams-per-metric-ton cut-off grade for the property's giant Reven...
NTR: TSX-V President and CEO: Greg Hayes, CA Director: Lori Walton, M.Sc., G.G., P.Geol. Vice President, Exploration: Dennis Ouellette, B.Sc. Northern Tiger Resources Inc. started diamond drilling at least 3,000 meters in mid-July on its 3Ace and Sprogge properties in southeastern Yukon Territory. The 2012 exploration program focused on testing new targets on both properties and attempting to expand the Main Zone (both along strike and down-dip), where 2011 drill highlights included up to 4.6 grams per metric ton gold over 35...
NQ: TSX-V CEO: Jon North, Ph.D., P.Geo. Chief Financial Officer: Carmelo Marrelli Vice President, Exploration: Dwayne Car In Nunavut, Northquest Ltd. focused in 2012 on its Pistol Bay Gold Project where it planned to spend about C$2 million on exploration. In July, the company commenced a second phase of exploratory drilling at its 575 square-kilometer (xx square miles) land package of mineral rights covering a 35-kilometer (22 miles) strike length of prospective stratigraphy containing numerous gold occurrences. Northquest...
NG: TSX / NG: NYSE-MKT Chairman: Thomas Kaplan President and CEO: Gregory Lang Senior Vice President and COO: Gil Leathley Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse, founder of NovaGold Resources Inc., handed the company's top executive office over to Greg Lang, who assumed the role of president and CEO in early January. This shift in leadership marks the final stages of NovaGold's transition from a premier Alaska and Northwest Canada exploration company to a mine developer focused on advancing its 50 percent interest in the 40-million-ounce...
PEX: TSX President and CEO: John S. Brock, B.Sc. Vice President, Exploration: Janice Fingler, M.Sc., P.Geo. Chief Financial Officer: Lei Wang, CGA Pacific Ridge Exploration Ltd. directed the majority of its 2012 field work to the Mariposa Gold Project located in the White Gold district of Yukon Territory. A 2012 phrase 1 exploration program, budgeted at C$2.1 million for up to 2,500 meters of drilling commenced in early June and diamond drilling at Mariposa began during the second week of July. The exploration was...
PGD: TSX Chairman and CEO: Eric Friedland President: Brooke Clements Chief Geoscientist: Jennifer Pell, B.Sc. (Honors), Ph.D. Peregrine Diamonds Ltd. focused in 2012 on its diamond exploration projects in Nunavut and Northwest Territories, spending more than C$3 million on at least two successful exploration programs. In December, BHP Billiton Canada Inc., Peregrine's joint venture partner in the Chidliak Project located 120 kilometers (74 miles) northeast of Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut opted to end the partnership and...
PVG: TSX President and CEO: Robert A. Quartermain, BSc (Hons), MSc, P.Geo, DSc Chief Exploration Officer: Kenneth C. McNaughton, , M.A. Sc., P.Eng. Chief Geologist: Warwick Board, Ph.D., P.Geo, MAusIMM, Pr.Sci.Nat. Pretium Resources Inc. is a mineral exploration company that is advancing the Brucejack Project, located 65 kilometers (40 miles) north-northwest of Stewart, B.C. and the Snowfield Project, which borders Brucejack to the north, in northern British Columbia. Combined, these projects are among the largest...
PNIKF: OTC Chairman and Interim CEO: John Lee Vice President, Corporate Development: Rob Bruggeman General Manager: Joseph Li Prophecy Platinum Corp. focused in 2012 on its flagship Wellgreen PGM Nickel Project located 320 kilometers (198 miles) from Whitehorse in southwestern Yukon Territory. One of the few mineral deposits in North America with all of the platinum group elements in significant quantities, the Wellgreen property has mineralization known to extend for 17.5 kilometers (nearly 11 miles). In January, Prophecy co...
PPG: TSX President and CEO: Adrian Fleming Technical Advisor: Quinton Hennigh Corporate Advisor: Darren Devine Prosperity Goldfields Corp. initiated its first drill program on the 590-square-kilometer (228 square miles) Kiyuk Lake Property near Nueltin Lake in central Nunavut in the summer of 2011, testing the Rusty, Cobalt and Gold Point targets. In May Prosperity completed a spring diamond core drill program to follow up the initial drilling and test undrilled targets with encouraging characteristics. The company completed...
TSX: NIC President and CEO: David McPherson Chairman: R. David Russell Chief Geologist: Jon Findlay Pure Nickel Inc., a junior with a portfolio of nickel and platinum group element projects in Canada and Alaska, is focused on exploring its Man nickel-copper-platinum group element project. Itochu Corp., which joined the project at the end of 2008, can earn a 75 percent interest in Man by spending US$40 million on the Interior Alaska project by the end of 2013 - so far the company has spent US$17 million and earned a 30 percent...
RK: TSX-V Chief Executive Officer: Matthew A. Turner Chief Operating Officer: Ian J. Talbot Vice-President of Business Development: Marc G. Blythe, P.Eng. Rockhaven Resources Ltd. currently holds interests in 11 mineral exploration properties in Yukon Territory. The junior focused in 2012 on the Klaza property in central Yukon, which hosts seven parallel, 1-75 meters wide, structural zones of gold-silver mineralization with a cumulative mineralized strike length of 6,100 meters. The zones consist of quartz-sulphide veins, bre...
RG: TSX-V/RMIOF:NASDAQ OTC/D4R:FE President and Director: Anastasios (Tom) Drivas Chief Financial Officer: Michael D'Amico, CA Vice President, Exploration and Geologist: Thomas Skimming, P. Eng. Romios Gold Resources Inc. focused its 2012 exploration activities Romios on its gold-copper properties located in northern British Columbia. Following up on extensive 2010 and 2011 programs at its Trek, Newmont Lake and the Dirk properties, Romios undertook a C$1.4 million exploration campaign in June on the Newmont Lake Project...
RYG: TSX-V Interim Chief Executive Officer: David Schmidt President: Shawn Ryan Acting Chief Geologist: Andy Randell Ryan Gold Corp. is an exploration company focused primarily on prospects in Yukon Territory. A well-funded explorer, the company holds a 4,700-square-kilometer (1,815 square miles) land package comprised of 80 different properties. Ryan Gold's flagship Ida Oro property is located 85 kilometers (53 miles) east of Dawson City in central Yukon. In 2012 the explorer's work program included drilling 6,000 meters on...
SBB.V: TSX-V President and CEO: Robert Pease Vice President, Corporate Development: Jason Hynes Vice-President, Exploration: Angus Campbell In 2012 Sabina Gold & Silver Corp. carried out extensive exploration programs on its Back River Gold Project and Wishbone Property in Nunavut focused on continuing to add ounces to resources and advance the Back River project to the development stage. At Back River, the company mainly targeted infill, geotechnical and extension drilling of existing deposits in support of the upcoming Back...
SEA: TSX and SA: NYSE Amex Chairman and CEO: Rudi P. Fronk President and COO: Jay S. Layman Senior Vice President, Exploration: William E. Threlkeld Seabridge Gold Inc. is a development stage company focused on the KSM (Kerr-Sulphurets-Mitchell) property in Northwest British Columbia, which is one of the world's largest undeveloped gold/copper projects, and the Courageous Lake property located in the Slave Province of Northwest Territories. "Our business plan from inception has been to grow gold resources and reserves, while...
SWN: TSX-V CEO: Harlan D. Meade, Ph.D. President: Stephen Rea, MBA Vice President, Exploration: Jason Dunning Selwyn Resources Ltd. focused in 2012 on exploration and development of the Selwyn Project in eastern Yukon Territory, which it owns 50-50 with China-based Chihong Canada Mining Ltd. The Selwyn project hosts large tonnages of zinc-lead mineralization that extends across the border into Northwest Territories. The project has the potential for large-scale production. Known zinc and lead mineralization hosted within...
SNG: TSX-V President and CEO: W. Douglas Eaton, B.A., B.Sc. Chairman: Bruce A. Youngman, B.Sc. Chief Operating Officer: Ian J. Talbot, B.Sc., LLB. Silver Range Resources Ltd., a 2011 spin-out from Strategic Metals Ltd., is exploring bulk tonnage targets at the silver-enriched Silver Range Project located 10-40 kilometers (6-25 miles) north of Faro in southern Yukon Territory and gold-rich Mint Project located 26 kilometers (16 miles) south of the Alaska Highway in southwest Yukon. Aggressive follow-up work programs were carri...
SK: TSX-V Chief Executive Officer: John Zbeetnoff, P.Geo Chief Operating Officer: James (Jim) Sparling, P.Geo, MBA Vice President, Corporate Development: Susan P. Craig, M.Sc., P.Geo. SnipGold Corp., formerly Skyline Gold Corp., focused in 2012 on exploring its principal asset, the Iskut Property northwestern British Columbia with a seven-hole, 2,000-meter first-phase drill program. As of Aug. 02, 2012, SnipGold had drilled 1,517 meters in six holes, SG12-22 to SG12-27 aimed at testing electro-magnetic conductors located in...
SMD: TSX-V President and CEO: W. Douglas Eaton, B.A., B.Sc. Chairman: Bruce A. Youngman, B.Sc. Chief Operating Officer: Ian J. Talbot Over the past 15 years, Strategic Metals Ltd. has assembled an impressive portfolio of some 160 mineral properties and royalty interests in Yukon, British Columbia and western Northwest Territories, including many that are currently under option to other companies. Strategic recently expanded its wholly-owned Midas Touch project to cover over 1,200 square kilometers (463 square miles) of...
TAU: TSX-V Executive Chairman: Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse CEO and Executive Vice Chairman: Raj Chowdhry Vice President, Exploration: Jerry Zieg Tintina Resources Inc. emerged on the Alaska mining scene in 2009 when NovaGold Resources Inc. rolled 397,680 acres of its early-stage Alaska exploration properties into the Vancouver B.C.-based junior. Tapping NovaGold's exploration expertise, Tintina appointed Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse as executive chairman of its board of directors and recruited geologist Jerry Zieg to become the junior's...
TNR: TSX-V Executive Chairman and President: Gary Schellenberg Vice President, Exploration: John Harrop Following a five-year hiatus, TNR Gold Corp. returned to Alaska in 2012 to confirm a 1 million-ounce gold resource at its Shotgun project in the Kuskokwim Gold Belt of western Alaska. Located about 110 miles (175 kilometers) south of Donlin Gold and about the same distance northeast of Pebble, this property lies at the intersection of two trends known to host big deposits. When TNR Gold optioned Shotgun from NovaGold...
UCU: TSX.V/ UURAF: OTCQX President and CEO: James McKenzie Chief Operating Officer: Ken Collison Ucore Rare Metals Inc. is rapidly steering its Bokan Mountain-Dotson Ridge project in Southeast Alaska toward becoming a primary United States source of dysprosium, terbium, yttrium and other heavy rare earth metals. Based on 9,550 meters of drilling completed at Bokan, Ucore released an inaugural resource estimate for the REE deposit in 2011. At a 0.4 percent total rare earth oxide cut-off grade, the property hosts an inferred...
VIT: TSX-V President and CEO: John McConnell Vice President - Yukon: Mark Ayranto Vice President, Exploration: Richard Eliason Victoria Gold Corp., (formerly Victoria Resource Corp.), is a gold exploration company focused on bringing the Eagle Gold Deposit on its Dublin Gulch property in central Yukon Territory into production in 2014/2015. The deposit has a NI 43-101-compliant gold resource of 2.3 million ounces in reserves, plus 4.8 million ounces in indicated and 1.5 million ounces in inferred resources. In 2012 the...
YJK: TSX President and CEO: Charles C. "Chuck" Downie, P.Geo. Chairman: Tim J. Termuende, P.Geo. Chief Financial Officer: Glen J. Diduck, CA Yellowjacket Resources Ltd., spun out in December 2011 from Eagle Plains Resources Ltd., is focused on the Yellowjacket Gold Project located 9 kilometers (5.6 miles) east of Atlin, B.C. In a plan of arrangement, the junior acquired the Yellowjacket gold project, together with C$600,000 cash, C$969,020 in investment assets and reclamation bonds of C$150,522.The project is the site of a...
Over the past six months, the single-most common question I have gotten asked about Alaska's mineral industry is, "Have there been any significant new discoveries?" While there may be an as-yet unannounced new discovery in Alaska, it seems the above question is being asked more frequently in other parts of the world as well and the most common answer is a simple "no." While information on new discoveries in other sectors of the mining industry is out there, it's not as...
