The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
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Heliostar Metals Ltd. June 16 reported that drills have tapped a high-grade gold vein in the area of the historic Apollo Mine on Unga Island and multiple strong gold intercepts at the adjacent Sitka Mine site. From 1886 to 1922, the historic Apollo Mine produced roughly 130,000 ounces of gold from ore that is estimated to have averaged around 10 grams per metric ton gold. This ore is reported to have been mined from three closely spaced, parallel veins. The Apollo vein...
GoldMining Inc. June 21 published an updated mineral resource estimate for its Whistler gold-silver-copper project adjacent to Nova Minerals Ltd.'s Estelle gold project in Southcentral Alaska. According to the new calculation, the Whistler, Island Mountain, and Raintree West deposits at Whistler host 118.2 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 0.51 grams per metric ton (1.94 million ounces) gold, 2.19 g/t (8.3 million oz) silver, and 0.16% (422 million pounds)...
Western Alaska Copper & Gold Company May 25 announced plans to become listed on the TSX Venture Exchange through a merger with 1246779 B.C. Ltd. As a private company led by Christopher (Kit) Marrs, Western Alaska has steadily advanced multiple precious and base metals deposits and targets across its 35,520-acre Illinois Creek Mining District property near the Yukon River about 65 miles southwest of the town of Galena, Alaska. Western Alaska's 2020 program on this property...
Blackwolf Copper and Gold Ltd. June 16 reported that the spring 2021 underground resource expansion and exploration drilling program has cut substantially thicker intervals of copper-gold-silver-zinc mineralization than expected at the Lookout deposit, which hosts the bulk of the resource identified so far at the company's Niblack volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit in Southeast Alaska. According to a 2011 calculation, the Lookout deposit at Niblack hosts 5.6 million metric...
Nova Minerals Ltd. June 16 announced the start of drilling at RPM, a potentially higher-grade zone that represents the next stage of growth on the company's Estelle gold property in Alaska. Situated about 16 miles (25 kilometers) south of Korbel, where Nova has outlined 4.7 million ounces of gold in 518 million metric tons of inferred resource averaging 0.3 grams per metric ton gold, RPM is a high-priority exploration target with very high gold grades at surface. One hole...
Nova Minerals Ltd. June 8 reported strong gold mineralization encountered during infill drilling at the Korbel Main deposit at the company's Estelle gold property in Southcentral Alaska. Situated about 100 miles (160 kilometers) northwest of Anchorage, Alaska's largest city, Estelle blankets 85 square miles (220 square kilometers) of gold-rich geology. While more than a dozen targets have been identified across the 18-mile- (29 kilometers) length of Estelle, Nova is currently...
Blackwolf Copper and Gold Ltd. June 10 reported that it has staked mining claims over numerous historic, high-grade gold-silver prospects and mines in Southeast Alaska. Situated near the mining towns of Hyder, Alaska and Stewart, British Columbia, these properties – Texas Creek and Cantoo – are immediately west of the Premier gold project and south of past-producing Scottie gold and Granduc copper mines in BC's famed Golden Triangle. According to Blackwolf, very limited mod...
Kenorland Minerals Ltd. June 3 announced the start of a 4,000-meter drill program at the Healy gold project in Alaska's prolific Goodpaster Mining District. "We're thrilled to be back in Alaska and kicking off the maiden diamond drill program at Healy," said Kenorland Minerals CEO Zach Flood. "This project represents an excellent opportunity for another completely greenfields gold discovery." Healy covers numerous untested gold targets across a 45,600-acre (18,470 hectares)...
Freegold Ventures Ltd. June 3 announced that the first hole of its 40,000-meter 2021 drill program at Golden Summit cut a more than 420-meter-thick zone of strong gold mineralization between the current bulk-tonnage Dolphin resource and the spectacularly high-grade Cleary Hill area on this highway accessible property about 25 miles north of Fairbanks, Alaska. Prior to the 2020 program, most of the drilling at Golden Summit focused on Dolphin, a deposit that hosts 61.5 million...
White Rock Minerals Ltd. May 24 reported the start of a planned more than 10,000-meter drill program at its Red Mountain base and precious metals project in Alaska. The large program will include three diamond drill rigs testing for both intrusive related gold at the Last Chance prospect and expanding upon the high-grade silver-zinc-gold-lead volcanogenic massive sulfide mineralization at Red Mountain. The first of the three rigs are now turning at Dry Creek, a silver-rich VMS...
Grande Portage Resources Ltd. May 12 reported that it has nearly double the amount of gold in the indicated resource category at Herbert Gold, while also adding ounces to the inferred resources at this high-grade gold project in Southeast Alaska. Herbert Gold now hosts 3.64 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 10.23 grams per metric ton (1.2 million oz) gold and 5.87 g/t (686,700 oz) silver; plus 1.14 million metric tons of inferred resource averaging 8.91 g/t...
Northern Star Resources Ltd. April 21 reported that COVID-related challenges continue to impact gold production at its Pogo Mine in Alaska. The underground gold operation about 85 miles southeast of Fairbanks, Alaska produced 41,494 ounces of gold during the first quarter of 2021, which is down about 22% from the 53,375 oz recovered during the final quarter of 2020. Northern Star says the drop in gold production is due to earlier impacts to the rate of underground development...
Heliostar Metals Ltd. May 13 announced the start of a 7,000-meter drill program focused on expanding high-grade gold mineralization and testing new targets at its Unga project in Alaska. Covering roughly 93 square miles (240 square kilometers) of the Unga and Popof islands off the southern coast of the Alaska Peninsula, the Unga project hosts the historic Apollo and Sitka mines, which produced roughly 150,000 ounces of gold from high-grade epithermal veins from around 1886 to...
HighGold Mining Inc. May 6 outlined plans for an initial US$8.2 million (C$10 million) 2021 exploration program at its Johnson Tract polymetallic gold project in Southcentral Alaska that will test expansion targets at and around its JT deposit, and explore other earlier staged prospects across the 20,942-acre (8,475 hectares) property. "Our exploration team's mandate in 2021 includes both establishing critical mass at the JT deposit and making new discoveries," said HighGold M...
Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. April 27 announced the publication of an environmental, social & governance report that outlines its 20-year commitment to environmentally sound and socially responsible development of the proposed Pebble copper-gold-molybdenum-silver-rhenium mine project in Southwest Alaska. "This ESG report is an effort to explain simply and directly, without embellishment, what NDM (Northern Dynasty Minerals) and PLP (Pebble Limited Partnership) have done in...
Contango ORE Inc. April 29 announced it has staked 52,920 acres of state of Alaska mining claims covering a significant portion of the Richardson Mining District. This property, known as Shamrock, lies alongside the Alaska Highway about 70 miles southeast of Fairbanks, Alaska. In addition to excellent access via gravel roads and trails connecting to the paved highway, Shamrock boasts a high-voltage power line that runs along the southern property boundary. Since the discovery...
Heatherdale Resources Ltd. April 20 announced a significant change by renaming the company to Blackwolf Copper and Gold Ltd., which is now listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol BWCG. "Our name change to Blackwolf Copper and Gold better reflects the company's spirit and vision, particularly with consultation and inclusion with indigenous people," said Rob McLeod, president and CEO of Blackwolf Copper and Gold. "Growing up in the Pacific Northwest on the border of...
HighGold Mining Inc. April 13 said the final batch of assay results from the 2020 drilling at Johnson Tract in Southcentral Alaska includes one hole that extended the JT deposit by about 180 meters along strike and down-dip. According to a calculation completed in April of last year, the JT deposit hosts 2.14 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 6.07 grams per metric ton (417,000 ounces) gold, 5.8 g/t (397,000 oz) silver, 5.85% (275.3 million pounds) zinc,...
Blackwolf Copper and Gold Ltd. (formerly Heatherdale Resources Ltd.) May 3 announced that its late 2020 surface drill program near the historic Niblack Mine tapped high-grade copper-gold-silver-zinc mineralization and confirmed the company's interpretation of the geology found there. Located at the end of the Alaskan Panhandle, on Prince of Wales Island, the historic Niblack Mine is located over 1,000 meters north of the current NI 43-101 mineral resources in the Lookout and T...
White Rock Minerals Ltd. April 21 announced the closing of a roughly A$8.8 million (US$6.8 million) financing, which will fund the Australian company's largest exploration program so far at the Red Mountain project in Alaska. The expanded 2021 program at Red Mountain will include three diamond drill rigs testing for both intrusive related gold at the Last Chance prospect and expanding up upon the high-grade silver-zinc-gold-lead volcanogenic massive sulfide mineralization at R...
Grande Portage Resources Ltd. April 12 said it has begun the process of collecting the environmental and other baseline data that will be needed for future mine permitting at the Herbert Gold project in Southeast Alaska. According to a 2019 calculation, Herbert Gold hosts 1.88 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 10.03 grams per metric ton (605,000 ounces) gold; plus 553,429 metric tons of inferred resource averaging 14.15 g/t (251,700 oz) gold. Since the...
Hecla Mining Company April 8 reported that its Greens Creek Mine produced 2.6 million ounces of silver and 13,266 oz of gold during the first three months of 2021. The Southeast Alaska mine's first quarter silver output is down about 7% from the 2.8 million oz produced during the same period last year. The quarterly gold production, however, increased by about 8% over the 12,273 oz produced during the first three months of 2020. Hecla says ore grades, lower for silver and...
White Rock Minerals Ltd. April 12 said it plans to carry out 10,000 meters of drilling this year to expand upon and explore the zinc, lead, silver, and gold potential across its 308-square-mile (798 square kilometers) Red Mountain project in Alaska. This program will involve three drill rigs focused on expanding the silver-rich volcanogenic massive sulfide mineralization already outlined in the Dry Creek and WTF deposits at Red Mountain, as well as the intrusive related gold...
Millrock Resources Inc. Feb. 13 announced that it has expanded its Fairbanks Mining District gold properties and its partner Felix Gold Ltd. has added David Larimer to lead the exploration of the growing portfolio in Interior Alaska. In January, Millrock announced it had vended its Fairbanks area properties to Felix Gold Ltd. and would be working with this newly formed Australian mineral exploration company to expand upon and advance exploration on these Interior Alaska gold...
Nova Minerals Ltd. April 7 announced an updated and expanded resource for the Korbel Main gold deposit on its Estelle project in Alaska. According to the new calculation, Korbel Main hosts 4.7 million ounces of gold in 518 million metric tons of Australian Joint Ore Reserves Committee- (JORC) compliant inferred resource averaging 0.3 grams per metric ton gold. Based on the results from recent ore sorting studies that show a significant improvement in mill feed grades, the new...
