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Grande Portage Resources Ltd. Nov. 27 reported another high-grade gold intercept for this year's drilling at the Goat Vein on the company's Herbert Gold project in Southeast Alaska. Hole 18M-12, drilled from the north side of the Goat Vein, intersected the main structure at a depth of roughly 230 meters. The main Goat Vein structure at this depth is 9.9 meters wide, including a 6.37-meter interval (4.97 meters true-width) just above the footwall that averaged 24.39 grams per...
The state of Alaska Nov. 8 filed a lawsuit against the United States Bureau of Land Management, asserting ownership of the submerged lands beneath the Middle Fork and North Fork of the Fortymile River. This lawsuit comes on the heels of other successful efforts to confirm the state's ownership of navigable waterways across Alaska. "Unlike many other areas in the U.S., Alaska's waterways are very much still used as highways," said Alaska Attorney General Jahna Lindemuth. "It's...
Alaska Gov. Bill Walker Nov. 27 approved the release of funds to complete the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) process for the Ambler Mining District Access Project, a proposed 211-mile industrial access road that would link one of the richest known undeveloped mineral regions on Earth to Alaska's highway system. "The Ambler Mining District provides an immense opportunity for economic development in northern Alaska and moving through the EIS process is an important step to...
PolarX Ltd. Nov. 19 said strong assay results from soil and rock‐chip sampling demonstrate the potential for a significant gold‐copper discovery at the Mars prospect on its Alaska Range project. The Mars prospect is located at the northwest end of a 7.5-mile- (12 kilometers) long structural corridor that extends through the Zackly Skarn deposit and onto the Zackly SE porphyry prospect on the east end. Infill soil and rock chip sampling carried out this year has confirmed a 2...
Trilogy Metals Inc. Nov. 19 reported additional copper-cobalt results from drilling beyond the deposit at Bornite, a part of the company's Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects in the Ambler Mining District of Northwest Alaska. According to a 2016 calculation, the open-pit deposit at Bornite contains 40.5 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 1.02 percent (913 million pounds) copper; and 141.9 million metric tons of inferred resources averaging 1.74 percent (5.45 billion...
White Rock Minerals Nov. 21 announced that it has staked 524 state of Alaska mining claims around Red Mountain, more than tripling the Australian company's land position at this high-grade zinc-silver-lead-gold-copper volcanogenic massive sulfide project on the north slopes of the Alaska Range. This expansion follows White Rock's first year of exploration where drilling confirmed the high-grade zinc-silver-lead-gold-copper mineralization at two historical deposits at Red...
PolarX Ltd. Nov. 12 reported strong copper-gold results from another hole drilled in an area about 850 meters east of the Zackly skarn deposit that is emerging as a potential open pit mine on the Australian company's Alaska Range project. This hole, ZX‐18021, cut 20.2 meters averaging 0.3 percent copper, 1.1 grams per metric ton gold and 5.3 g/t silver. While not the highest grade or thickest intercept encountered this year, its proximity to holes that meet that criteria a...
Kinross Gold Corp. Nov. 7 reported lower gold production and higher costs at its Fort Knox Mine due to lower ore grades and the minor pit wall slide that occurred at this Interior Alaska operation in March and above average rainfall which affected geotechnical stability during the third quarter. Fort Knox produced 51,984 ounces of gold during the third quarter of 2018, a roughly 49 percent decrease from the 101,047 oz recovered during the same period last year. The per-ounce c...
Ucore Rare Metals Inc. Nov. 7 said it plans to exercise its option to purchase IBC Advanced Technologies Inc., the Utah-based company that developed the molecular recognition technology used to separate rare earth elements from a solution derived from Ucore's Bokan Mountain project in Southeast Alaska. This technology, also known as MRT, was proven to efficiently pull out individual high-purity rare earths with a pilot plant known as SuperLig-One and is being implemented into...
PolarX Ltd. Nov. 5 said a high‐resolution aeromagnetic geophysical survey flown this fall over most of the Stellar property, part of the Australian explorer's Alaska Range project, clearly shows the signature of a significant copper‐gold porphyry target at the Zackly SE prospect. Collecting magnetic data on 50-meter line spacing at an average height of 33 meters above the ground, the helicopter-flown survey provided details of a 7.5-mile (12 kilometers) long structural cor...
Decade Resources Ltd. Nov. 6 announced it has staked 19 claims covering the Crest high-grade gold prospect near the town of Hyder in Southeast Alaska. Situated just across the border from British Columbia's Golden Triangle region, these claims are adjacent to Ascot Resources' Premier gold-silver mine property on the Canadian side of the border. Decade's newly staked claims cover the historic Crest property that is described in a 1929 United States Geological Survey bulletin,...
Freegold Ventures Ltd. Oct. 30 provided an update on its exploration activities at its Shorty Creek and Golden Summit projects. This fall, Freegold completed a modest two-hole drill program at Shorty Creek, a copper-gold porphyry target located alongside the Elliott Highway about 75 miles northwest of Fairbanks. Freegold discovered significant copper-gold mineralization at Shorty Creek during an inaugural drill program carried out there in 2015. One hole drilled that year, SC...
Usibelli Coal Mine Inc. Oct. 26 announced that it has acquired the Tri-Valley subdivision in Healy, Alaska from Alaska Railroad Corp., a major step in the coal mining company's goal to make these lots available for private ownership. "What many people outside Healy may not know, is that there isn't much land in the area available for private ownership. The community's primary residential subdivision is actually built on Alaska Railroad Corporation land. Residents own their...
Constantine Metal Resources Ltd. Oct. 30 said drilling at AG Zone continues to trace a thick lens of precious and base metals-rich massive barite-sulfide with potential to add substantial tonnage to the total mineral resource base for the Palmer project in Southeast Alaska. Expansion of the AG Zone, discovered 3,000 meters southwest of the main Palmer (South Wall-RW) deposit in 2017, was a primary goal of the 10,364-meter drill program carried out at Palmer this summer. Highli...
Grande Portage Resources Ltd. Oct. 29 said drilling has tapped high-grade gold in the Goat vein on the Herbert Gold project in Southeast Alaska. Earlier this year, Grande Portage reported very high-grade gold results from two channel samples cut across an outcropping section of Goat Vein. One of these sample returned 129.02 g/t (3.76 oz/t) gold and 68 g/t silver over 1.12 meters; and the second returned 290 g/t (8.46 oz/t) gold and 224 g/t silver over 1.02 meters. Hole DDH18M-...
Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Oct. 30 published major-oxide and trace-element geochemical data from rocks collected from the Northeast Tanacross project in 2018. From June 19 through July 15, 2018, geologists from the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (DGGS) carried out a geologic mapping and geochemical sampling project in the Northeast Tanacross map area – Tanacross D-1 and parts of C-1 and D-2 quadrangles – adjacent to the For...
Grande Portage Resources Ltd. Oct. 22 reported results from the first two holes of a 15-hole drill program out at the company's Herbert Gold project in Southeast Alaska. These initial holes of the 2018 season targeted the central Deep Trench, the southernmost of three major veins drilled so far at Herbert. Hole 18S-1 cut 2.81 meters (2.47 meters true-width) averaging 15.76 grams per metric ton gold and 8.7 g/t silver. Hole 18S-2 cut 9.08 meters (4.81 meters true-width) averagi...
Hecla Mining Company Oct. 23 reported that its Greens Creek Mine in Southeast Alaska produced 1.88 million ounces of silver during the third quarter of 2018, down 20 percent from the 2.34 million oz produced during the same period last year. The Juneau area mine also produced 11,559 oz of gold during the quarter ending Sept. 30, down 7 percent from Q3 2017. The Idaho-based mining company attributes the slight drop in precious metals production at Greens Creek to lower ore...
Grande Portage Resources Ltd. Oct. 15 said recent metallurgical testing shows excellent gold recoveries from samples of the mineralized veins at the company's Herbert Gold project in Southeast Alaska. Samples collected from two different veins at Herbert Gold – Deep Trench and Goat – returned higher than 97 percent gold recoveries using either gravity-floatation or whole-ore cyanidation gold extraction techniques. One sample taken from a 1.12-meter channel cut per...
Endurance Gold Corp. Oct. 16 reported that a grab sample from the Trout target on the company's Elephant Mountain project in Interior Alaska contained 23 grams per metric ton gold. This sample was collected during the company's 2018 exploration program that included rock sampling, trenching, soil sampling and geological mapping primarily at Trout, a target drained by two placer gold bearing streams in the area. Prior sampling at Trout has defined a gold-in-soil anomaly over...
Grande Portage Resources Ltd. Oct. 10 said channel sampling of a recently exposed section of quartz vein supports the company's belief that Goat Vein could be another prolific, high-grade gold structure on the company's Herbert Gold property in Southeast Alaska. Herbert Gold hosts 1.1 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 7.25 grams per metric ton (267,950 ounces) gold; and 423,200 metric tons of inferred resource averaging 6.04 g/t (82,200 oz) gold, according to...
Trilogy Metals Inc. Oct. 9 reported high-grade copper and cobalt assay results from four holes drilled outside of the resource area at the Bornite project, part of the company's Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects in the Ambler Mining District of Northwest Alaska. According to a 2016 calculation, the open-pit deposit at Bornite contains 40.5 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 1.02 percent (913 million lb) copper; and 84.1 million metric tons of inferred resource...
Riversgold Ltd. Oct. 8 reported that it has staked a block of new state mining claims to cover high-grade gold the Australian exploration company has identified between its Quicksilver and Gemuk Mountain gold targets in Southwest Alaska. Known as Midway, this new property covers a section of the North Fork Fault immediately northeast of the company's Luna-Quicksilver property. Reconnaissance mapping and prospecting carried out this summer identified numerous outcropping...
Novagold Resources Inc. Oct. 2 reported that it is well-funded to see the Donlin Gold project in Southwest Alaska to a construction decision but provided very few clues as to when to expect this decision on developing a mine at one of the world's largest gold deposits. Novagold owns a 50 percent interest in the 39-million-ounce Donlin Gold project, Barrick Gold Corp. owns the other half. The Donlin Gold partners now have the key federal permits needed to develop the mine and...
Northern Star Resources Ltd. Oct. 1 announced that it has closed the deal to buy the Pogo gold mine in Interior Alaska. The mid-tier Australian gold producer paid US$260 million to buy this high-grade underground operation from a joint venture between Japanese firms Sumitomo Metal Mining Company (85 percent) and Sumitomo Corp. (15 percent). "On behalf of Northern Star, I would like to thank Sumitomo for their assistance and the outstanding condition in which they have left the...
