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Stretching some 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) off Southwest Alaska into the Pacific Ocean, the Alaska Peninsula and trailing Aleutian Islands host among the oldest gold discoveries ever made in Alaska, yet it is the only island arc environment in the Pacific Ring of Fire without a major producing mine. Though no mines are currently operating in this region rich with epithermal gold, and porphyry copper-gold mineralizing systems, the arc has a prominent entry in the annals of...
As a busy year in the Alaska and global mining industry starts to slide closer to its end, I figured now was a good time to gaze into my crystal ball (rutilated quartz, of course) to see what next year might bring. While strong metals prices promise another busy year for Alaska, a dose of global reality was provided by the financial giant Ernst & Young, who recently published a list of the top 10 business risks for the mining and metals industry for the coming year. Resource n... Full story
The winter convention season is upon us, and the first of many such events is sponsored by the Alaska Miners Association each November. This year's convention was filled with the customary excitement. The papers were excellent and well received. Attendance was at record levels. The conversations were focused on the successes of the past season and the plans for next year. In brief, the convention was similar to all recent ones, save the banquet, which was unique. After 22... Full story
As cold weather wraps up the 2011 field season, mining in Yukon Territory appears to be getting hotter, with exploration and development activities throughout the year living up to all of the pre-season hype and then some. Early in the year, explorers laid the groundwork for grassroots exploration seemingly in every corner of the territory. No sooner than the meeting rooms emptied at Roundup in Vancouver in late January, than a frenzy of claim staking erupted in the Yukon. Golden Predator Corp. snatched up all of the...
A second wave of mining exploration swept across Yukon Territory in 2011, bringing with it new mineral discoveries, record employment and myriad other changes, large and small. Roughly 100 companies, including a score of newcomers, mounted an array of mineral exploration programs with most of them stalking gold and silver deposits. Some came away with early success and excitement about their results, while others sifted the tea leaves, looking for clearer signs of the elusive mineralization they seek. "The impact of this...
For Yukon geologist Jean Pautler, the busy 2011 field season also may end up being one for her personal record book. "I was lucky to spend a week in one place," she told Mining News in a recent interview. Pautler, a geological consultant through her company, JP Exploration Services, has spent more than 30 years tramping through the Canadian bush in search of mineral deposits. A sprite of a woman with a cheerful smile, Pautler works alone, except for her German Shepherd mutt, Shadow, who accompanies her into the field....
While geological and engineering savvy have always been important components of advancing a promising prospect into viable operation, building a modern mine also requires a working knowledge of the complex social, biological and economic systems surrounding a project. "There is only one entity in Alaska that has any depth in all the broad technical areas that span mineral resource extraction - the University of Alaska," said Rajive Ganguli, chairman of the Department of Mining...
The Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency has agreed to invest C$3.275 million over three years (2012 to 2014) to support continuing geoscience research and data analysis in the Northwest Territories. The Government of the Northwest Territories' Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment and the private sector will invest a further C$1.1 million and C$900,000, respectively, for a total project value of C$5.275 million. The Hon. David Ramsay, newly elected minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment and...
The implementation of Alaska's anti-degradation policy is an emerging battlefield in the ongoing conflict between environmental groups seeking maximum protection for waterways in the state and resource development companies hoping to prevent added layers of red tape and too stringent water quality guidelines. While strict water quality standards have been established on state and federal levels, many streams, rivers and lakes in Alaska have naturally occurring waters that...
Droves of exploration companies have rushed to Yukon Territory in recent years to hunt for sizable deposits of gold, silver, copper, rare earth elements and base metals. Employing the most advanced geophysical and geochemical techniques available, along with their best hunches, these explorers, like others around the globe, are pulling out all the stops to find commercial quantities of the minerals currently riding the winds of strong demand and high prices. But noticeably absent from the list of lucrative commodities being...
Is the "Yukon Gold Rush" about to spill into Alaska? Since the 1896 discovery of gold on the aptly named Bonanza Creek sparked a stampede of fortune seekers to the rivers and streams of the Klondike, these world-class mining jurisdictions that share a common geological and mineralization history have been engaged in a cross-border rivalry of drawing prospectors and miners to their mineral-rich deposits. While 19th Century miners seeking their fortunes in Alaska's Fortymile...
Whether it is multimillion-ounce gold discoveries, copper deposits that measure in the billions of pounds or massive ore-bodies of 20 percent zinc, Alaska is renowned for its mammoth deposits. The prospect of finding another Donlin, Pebble or Red Dog continues to draw explorers to this vast and underexplored corner of the United States. In the Survey of Mining Companies: 2010/2011, conducted by the Fraser Institute, top executives from 494 mining and mineral exploration...
With a 20-million-ounce gold discovery embellishing their résumés, International Tower Hill Mines Ltd. co-founders Jeff Pontius and Russell Myers have taken the helm of Corvus Gold Inc., a junior formed in 2010 to explore Tower Hill's non-Livengood assets. During the initial year after the spin-out, Pontius continued to guide Tower Hill and its Livengood project into the transition from advanced exploration to early development and Myers turned his attention to getting C...
ABN: TSX Venture Exchange Chairman: Ronald Netolitzky, M.Sc. Geology President: James G. Pettit Qualified person: Carl Schultz, B.Sc., P Geo. Project manager: Aaron Higgs Aben Resources Ltd. is a Canadian gold and silver exploration company actively involved with the development of properties in Yukon Territory, Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan and Ontario. The company has an extensive proprietary database for the Yukon as well as the rights to 172,732 hectares (426,821 acres) of prospecting permits in the NWT. In May,...
Heatherdale Resources Ltd. has spent more than US$25 million since 2009 on expanding the copper-gold-silver-zinc deposits at the Niblack project on Prince of Wales Island. This aggressive exploration program, which includes more than 40,000 meters of drilling, has provided the Hunter Dickinson Inc.-affiliated junior with the confidence to advance the Southeast Alaska project toward feasibility. "Drilling over the past two years has affirmed the potential of the Niblack...
AXI: TSX-Venture President and CEO: John Gingerich, P. Geo VP Engineering and Technology: Florin Gheorghiu, Ph.D. Vice President, Exploration: Steve Roebuck Advanced Explorations Inc. is aggressively exploring its Roche Bay and Tuktu iron ore projects in Nunavut, along with promising West Melville Peninsula nickel and copper showings and an iron sands project on the northwest coast of the Alaska Peninsula about 700 kilometers (434 miles) southwest of Anchorage, Alaska. Advanced Explorations plans to produce iron products...
With some 20 million ounces of gold enveloped in a deposit that outcrops alongside a paved road in Interior Alaska, International Tower Hill Mines Ltd.'s Livengood project is ideally situated to become a top-tier gold operation - or, as the company's new CEO James Komadina put it, "A mine-builder's dream." "Rarely in my career have I encountered a project that has so much going for it: the resource is one of the largest and ideally situated gold deposits in the world; it is...
AEM: TSX Vice-chairman and CEO: Sean Boyd, C.A. President and COO: Eberhard Scherkus, P. Eng. Senior Vice President, Exploration: Alain Blackburn, P. Eng. Eighteen months after achieving commercial production at its Meadowbank Mine in Nunavut, international gold producer Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd. is ironing out kinks in the operation. Meadowbank, one of the international gold producer's largest mines, has almost 3.5 million ounces of gold in reserves (34 million metric ton at 3.2 grams per metric ton), with tremendous potential...
Kiska Metals Corp. is not only enduring Alaska's sometimes inclement winter weather but also embracing the ground-freezing conditions as a means to lower the costs of exploring the multitude of porphyry targets across its expansive Whistler copper-gold property about 160 kilometers (100 miles) northwest of Anchorage. "Although it is Alaska, winter is one of the most efficient times of the year for us to be working up there," Kiska Metals President and CEO Jason Weber... Full story
AXR: TSX/AXU/NYSE-A President and CEO: Clynton R. Nauman Executive Vice President & COO: Brad A. Thrall Vice President, Exploration: Alan McOnie, FAusIMM Alexco Resource Corp. is a precious metals exploration company with a silver focus and growing environmental consulting and reclamation and mine closure services. Alexco's primary exploration objective currently is to unlock value in the historic silver-rich Keno Hill district, which covers about 23,350 hectares, or 56,274 acres, in central Yukon Territory. Alexco achieved... Full story
ATC:TSX-V President: Robert C. Carne, M.Sc., P.Geo. Chief Executive Officer: Graham N. Downs Ian J. Talbot: Chief Operating Officer Atac Resources Ltd., a member of the Strategic Exploration Group, is an exploration-stage company concentrating as much effort as possible on the Rackla Gold Project including Rau and Nadaleen geological trends situated at the northern edge of the Tintina Gold Belt in the Mayo Mining District of east-central Yukon Territory. The project encompasses more than 8,000 mineral claims and covers 1,600...
Millrock Resources Inc. is artfully implementing the science of making grassroots gold and copper discoveries, proving the promise of these new finds and vending the prospects to other companies to do the heavy lifting of defining a deposit. This business model is paying off for the project generator. Some US$11 million is being spent on exploring its Alaska copper and gold prospects in 2011, with nearly US$10 million funded by its project partners. Senior miners Teck...
While NovaGold Resources Inc.'s ultimate goal is to become a 1-million-ounce-per-year gold producer, the Vancouver B.C.-based junior is taking a fresh look at the enormous reserves of copper waiting to be mined at its Galore Creek project in British Columbia and its Ambler project in Northwest Alaska. "Management believes the recently completed economic analyses of Galore Creek and Ambler clearly demonstrate that NovaGold's copper assets are considerably undervalued having reg...
AVL: TSX President and CEO: Donald S. Bubar, M. Sc., P. Geo. Vice-President, Finance and CFO: R.J. (Jim) Andersen, CA, CPA, CFP Vice-President, Exploration: William Mercer, Ph.D., P. Geo. Formed in 1991, Avalon Rare Metals is a mineral exploration and development company primarily focused on the rare metals and minerals that are in increasing demand for environmentally-beneficial high technology applications. These include lithium, tantalum, cesium, indium, gallium, rare earth elements, such as neodymium, dysprosium and... Full story
From deploying its own geologists to make grassroots discoveries to partnering with junior explorers with strong geological know-how and enticing projects, Teck Resources Ltd. is seeking new high-quality deposits of zinc, copper and gold across Alaska and Canada's North. "In terms of our overall exploration strategy, it has three parts to it: One is doing our own grassroots, regional exploration; the second arena we get involved with is joint ventures with junior companies; an... Full story
