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An 18-year-old man was fatally attacked by a female brown bear with two cubs while working at a remote drill site on Hecla Mining Company's Greens Creek silver mine property in Southeast Alaska. The mauling victim, identified as Anthony Montoya from Hollis, Oklahoma, works for Timberline Drilling, an Idaho-based company that carries out surface drilling at Greens Creek. "I want to express our condolences to the families, colleagues and friends of the individual at this...
Avidian Gold Corp. Oct. 1 reported that this year's drilling has tapped strong gold mineralization that confirm the expansion potential of the Breccia Pipe deposit on the company's Golden Zone property about 200 miles (320 kilometers) north of Anchorage, Alaska. The Breccia Pipe deposit hosts 4.19 metric tons of indicated resource averaging 1.99 grams per metric ton (267,400 ounces) gold and 10.38 g/t (1.4 million oz) silver; plus 1.35 million metric tons of inferred resource...
Ucore Rare Metals Inc. Sept. 24 reported it has entered into an agreement to acquire the property to build its Strategic Metals Complex, or SMC, a rare earth element and strategic metals refinery and separation plant to be built near the Southeast Alaska port town of Ketchikan. The SMC being planned for the six acres Ucore is acquiring north of Ketchikan will utilize IBC Advanced Technologies' molecular recognition technology, commonly known as MRT, to separate rare earths...
PolarX Ltd. Sept. 25 said drilling is beginning to outline a thick zone of shallow, high-grade gold-copper-silver mineralization about 850 meters east of the Zackly skarn deposit that show the potential for open-pit mining on the Australian explorer's Alaska Range project. First tapped by ZX-18020 – a hole reported earlier this year that cut 54.6 meters averaging 2.8 grams per metric ton gold, 9.4 g/t silver and 0.6 percent copper from a depth of 2.5 meters – this thick new...
White Rock Minerals Ltd. Sept. 24 said the latest batch of results from drilling shows significant expansions to the Dry Creek zinc-lead-silver-gold deposit at its Red Mountain project in Alaska. Located about 60 miles south of Fairbanks, the Red Mountain property hosts two established volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits – Dry Creek and West Tundra Flats – and 30 exploration targets. An Australian Joint Ore Reserves Committee- (JORC) compliant calculation completed last yea...
PolarX Ltd. Sept. 20 announced that it has encountered deeper high-grade gold-copper-silver mineralization east of the Zackly skarn deposit on the Australian explorer's Alaska Range Project. In March, PolarX reported an Australian Joint Ore Reserves Committee- (JORC) compliant inferred resource for Zackly of 3.4 million metric tons of inferred resource grading 1.2 percent (90.4 million pounds) copper, 2 grams per metric ton (213,000 oz) gold and 14 g/t (1.5 million oz)...
White Rock Minerals Ltd. Sept. 20 announced the conclusion of its exciting inaugural exploration program at the zinc-rich Red Mountain volcanogenic massive sulfide project about 60 miles south of Fairbanks, Alaska. The 4,111 meters of drilling and regional exploration carried out this year expanded the two historical and high-grade VMS deposits already identified on the property and made similar new discoveries that demonstrate the district-scale potential of Red Mountain....
Avidian Gold Corp. Sept. 10 reported the discovery of a new gold showing on its Golden Zone project about 200 miles (320 kilometers) north of Anchorage, Alaska. The Golden Zone property hosts numerous gold targets along a 15,000-meter-long trend. Breccia Pipe, the most advanced of these, is a deposit with 4.19 metric tons of indicated resource averaging 1.99 grams per metric ton (267,400 ounces) gold and 10.38 g/t (1.4 million oz) silver. JJ Zone, the new discovery, is about...
Western Alaska Copper & Gold Company Sept. 11 reported that it completed 4,232 meters of drilling at Round Top, which is more than double the drilling completed last year at this porphyry copper-silver-molybdenum project in the Illinois Creek Mining District of western Alaska. With the goal of expanding known mineralization at Round Top, the 2018 program focused on: further testing of the mainstage porphyry mineralization discovered in RT-19, a 2017 hole that cut 166 meters...
Northern Star Resources Ltd. Sept. 3 raised AU$175 million to help fund its acquisition of the Pogo gold mine in Alaska. In a deal announced on Aug. 30, the Australia-based miner has agreed to pay US$260 million to buy out Sumitomo Metal Mining Pogo, a joint venture between Japanese firms Sumitomo Metal Mining Company (85 percent) and Sumitomo Corp. (15 percent) that owns and operates the mine. Pogo currently has roughly 4.1 million ounces of gold in resources and reserves,...
Contango ORE Inc. Aug. 30 said a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for the Peak Gold (formerly Tetlin) project in eastern Alaska is slated for completion by the end of September. Being advanced by a joint venture between Contango ORE (60 percent) and Royal Gold Inc. (40 percent), the Peak Gold project hosts two parallel gold-rich skarn deposits – Main Peak and North Peak – and 850,000 acres of underexplored and highly prospective land. The two Peak skarn deposits host a g...
Freegold Ventures Ltd. Aug. 24 announced the start of a modest drill program at its Shorty Creek Project property in Interior Alaska, where previous drilling has cut long sections of porphyry copper-gold-silver-cobalt-tungsten mineralization. Lying alongside the paved Elliott Highway about 75 miles northwest of Fairbanks, Shorty Creek is adjacent to International Tower Hill Mines Ltd.'s 11.5-million-ounce Livengood gold project. Freegold's inaugural drill program at Shorty...
New Age Metals Inc. Aug. 29 announced the completion of a technical report that outlines a three-year plan for furthering exploration at its Genesis platinum group metals-copper-nickel project in Southcentral Alaska. Located about 75 miles north of Valdez and less than three miles from the paved highway leading to the port town, Genesis is an underexplored project that covers a 5.6-mile stretch of know PGM mineralization. This mineralization includes a drill-ready reef style...
PolarX Ltd. reported additional high-grade gold-copper mineralization well outside the resource boundary at the Zackly skarn deposit on the Australian explorer's Alaska Range Project. The Zackly deposit hosts 3.4 million metric tons of inferred resource grading 1.2 percent (90.4 million pounds) copper, 2 grams per metric ton (213,000 oz) gold and 14 g/t (1.5 million oz) silver, according to a resource calculation completed early this year. With the goal of expanding this...
Riversgold Ltd. Aug. 22 announced the start of a 1,000-meter drill program testing the highest priority targets identified so far on its gold exploration properties in Southwest Alaska. Perth, Australia-based Riversgold owns three gold exploration properties – Luna-Quicksilver, Kisa and Gemuk – that blanket 27,122 acres of the Kuskokwim Mountains about 95 miles southwest of the 39-million-ounce Donlin Gold Mine project. Apart from Kisa, the company said none of the pro...
Constantine Metal Resources Ltd. Aug. 21 reported results from four holes from this year's 10,000-meter drill program that continue to expand the South Wall and AG zones at the Palmer project in Southeast Alaska. South Wall-RW, the primary volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit outlined so far at Palmer, contains 8.1 million metric tons of inferred resources averaging 5.25 percent (940.4 million pounds) zinc, 1.41 percent (252.6 million lb) copper, 0.32 g/t (83,600 ounces) gold...
White Rock Minerals Ltd. Aug. 20 reported high-grade zinc grades were encountered in a second hole at the Hunter discovery on the company's Red Mountain project in Alaska. Hunter was discovered during a reconnaissance exploration program seeking new volcanogenic massive sulfide prospects across White Rock's 35,300-acre Red Mountain property. While mapping and sampling an area about 5,200 meters southeast of Dry Creek, one of two zinc-lead-copper-gold-silver deposits on the...
PolarX Ltd. Aug. 21 announced that assay results confirm that drilling has tapped copper and gold well below the currently outlined Zackly skarn deposit at the Australian explorer's Alaska Range project. Based on historical drilling and 13 holes completed last year, the Zackly deposit hosts 3.4 million metric tons of inferred resource grading 1.2 percent (90.4 million pounds) copper, 2 grams per metric ton (213,000 oz) gold and 14 g/t (1.5 million oz) silver. This resource...
PolarX Ltd. Aug. 15 reported that assay results confirm the outstanding copper-gold mineralization observed in the core from hole ZX-18020, a hole drilled some 850 meters east of the current resource at the Zackly deposit on the company's Alaska Range project. Starting at a depth of 2.5 meters, this hole cut 54.6 meters averaging 2.8 grams per metric ton gold, 9.4 g/t silver and 0.6 percent copper, including a 0.3-meter (one foot) section from 56.7 meters averaging 27.3...
Constantine Metal Resources Ltd. Aug. 13 reported that results from metallurgical testing demonstrate a premium-quality barite concentrate can be produced as a co-product to the copper, zinc, gold and silver found in the volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit at the Palmer project in Southeast Alaska. According to a resource calculated in 2015, the South Wall-RW deposit at Palmer hosts 8.1 million metric tons of inferred resource averaging 5.25 percent (940.4 million pounds)...
Ucore Rare Metals Inc. Aug. 14 said the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 signed into law by President Donald Trump is a turning point for the rare earth element sector in the United States. The new legislation, more commonly known as the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, prohibits the U.S. Department of Defense from acquiring rare earth magnets – along with certain tungsten, tantalum and molybdenum products – from China, Rus...
Hecla Mining Company Aug. 7 reported that drilling in the second quarter and strong assay results received from drilling in the first quarter have upgraded and expanded the Deep 200 South, Gallagher, East Ore, Upper Plate and Southwest Bench zone resources at its Greens Creek Mine in Southeast Alaska. Drilling has extended the Deep 200 South Zone, especially to the south. One hole drilled in the southern portion of Deep 200 South cut eight feet (2.4 meters) averaging 101.4...
Graphite One Resources Inc. Aug. 7 announced the start of a field program to a pre-feasibility study for the company's Graphite Creek deposit about 37 miles north of Nome, Alaska. A resource estimate calculated early in 2017 outlines 744,000 metric tons of graphite in 10.32 million metric tons of indicated resource grading 7.2 percent graphitic carbon; plus 4.7 million metric tons of graphite in 71.24 million metric tons of inferred resource averaging 7 percent graphitic...
White Rock Minerals Ltd. Aug. 6 reported that drilling has tapped massive sulfide mineralization at the recently discovered Hunter prospect on the company's Red Mountain project about 60 miles south of Fairbanks, Alaska. Hunter was discovered during a reconnaissance exploration program that has already identified several new volcanogenic massive sulfide prospects across White Rock's 35,300-acre Red Mountain property. While mapping and sampling of this area about 5,200 meters s...
White Rock Minerals Ltd. Aug. 1 reported that its reconnaissance exploration has identified several new volcanogenic massive sulfide prospects across its 35,300-acre Red Mountain property in Interior Alaska. The most exciting of these discoveries is Hunter, where a two-foot massive sulfide outcrop rich in sphalerite (zinc mineralization) and galena (lead mineralization) has been discovered. White Rock Minerals said the massive sulfide discovered at Hunter extends for more...
