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Heatherdale Resources Ltd. Jan. 6 reported that encouraging mineralization observed in the first four holes of the 2020 program prompted the company to drill all ten holes in the area of the historic Niblack Mine on the company's Niblack copper-gold-silver-zinc project in Southeast Alaska. Heatherdale, which had advanced the Niblack project to the verge of considering the feasibility of mining the high-grade volcanogenic massive sulfide mineralization found there, became...
Nova Minerals Ltd. Dec. 18 reported that initial tests indicate that ore sorting could significantly upgrade the feed for a mill and heap leach facility at a future mine on the Estelle gold project in Alaska. The Korbel Main deposit at Estelle currently hosts 3.3 million ounces of gold in 291 million metric tons of Australian Joint Ore Reserves Committee- (JORC) compliant inferred resource averaging 0.4 grams per metric ton gold. Nova is testing a bulk sorting process that...
PolarX Ltd. Dec. 17 reported that its 2020 drilling continues to encounter near-surface copper-gold mineralization at Zackly East, and geophysics has identified a new porphyry target associated with the high-grade skarn mineralization the company expanded this year on its Alaska Range property. Covering a 22-mile (35 kilometers) copper-rich trend along the southern slopes of the mountains for which it is named, Alaska Range consists of two adjacent copper and precious metal...
White Rock Minerals Ltd. Dec. 21 announced that 2020 stream sediment sampling identified a large, robust gold anomaly west of the Last Chance gold target on the company's Red Mountain project in Alaska. Best known for its zinc-rich volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposits and occurrences, the 308-square-mile (798 square kilometers) Red Mountain property lies within the Tintina Gold Belt, a particularly gold-rich province that sweeps across Canada's Yukon Territory and...
Tectonic Metals Inc. Dec. 21 reported that its initial prospecting of Carrie Creek, a newly acquired project immediately adjacent to Tibbs, has turned up intrusion-hosted gold mineralization similar to the ore at Kinross Gold Corp.'s Fort Knox Mine. Tectonic acquired Carrie Creek through a long-term lease agreement it entered into with Doyon Ltd., an Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) regional corporation with 12.5 million acres of land spanning Alaska's Interior, in...
Avidian Gold Corp. Dec. 17 reports that the second hole of its 2020 drill program at Amanita encountered the most significant gold intercept so far on this project that lies alongside the southern border of Kinross Gold Corp.'s Fort Knox Mine property in Alaska. This year, Avidian completed 1,945 meters of drilling in nine holes within the Tonsina trend, an 800-meter-wide structural corridor of gold mineralization that extends northeast from Amanita onto the Fort Knox...
Millrock Resources Inc. and Resolution Minerals Ltd. Dec. 13 announced the completion of the 2020 exploration at 64North, and preliminary plans for the 2021 program at this large land package adjacent to Northern Star Resources Ltd.'s Pogo gold mine in Alaska's Goodpaster Mining District. Since entering into an exploration agreement with Millrock late in 2019, Resolution has invested more than US$5 million in exploration at 64North and has indicated that it plans to make the...
Grande Portage Resources Ltd. Dec. 14 reports that drilling cut strong gold mineralization at Elusive, the southernmost of eight primary vein structures that have been confirmed at the company's Herbert Gold project in Southeast Alaska. The Elusive Vein discovery hole, 20H-3, cut 1.78 meters averaging 4.15 grams per metric ton gold. This represents the confirmation of another gold-bearing structure 300 meters south of Deep Trench Vein, which was previously the southern limit...
Grande Portage Resources Ltd. Dec. 9 reported assay results from holes that tapped gold mineralization in the Deep Trench, Ridge and Main veins on its Herbert Gold project in Southeast Alaska. 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. This resource is found in three roughly parallel structures at Herbert Gold...
Heliostar Metals Ltd. Nov. 23 announced it tapped gold-silver mineralization in the first hole the company has ever drilled at the Aquila target on its Unga project on the Alaska Peninsula. Situated at the southwest end of the Shumagin trend, one of two corridors of gold and silver mineralization running across the breadth of Unga Island, Aquila was discovered by Battle Mountain Gold in the 1980s. Trenching along the main outcropping vein zone at Aquila is reported to have...
Alaska Department of Natural Resources and Department of Environmental Conservation Oct. 27 announced that reclamation of the True North gold mine north of Fairbanks has been successfully completed and certified. Kinross Gold Corp. operated the True North mine under a lease of state- and University of Alaska-owned land. Over a roughly four-year span ending in 2004, the company produced more than 490,000 ounces of gold from 11.7 million tons of ore trucked seven miles from...
HighGold Mining Inc. Nov. 18 reports that the latest batch of assay results from the 2020 program at Johnson Tract continue to expand high-grade gold, copper, and zinc mineralization at the JT deposit on this project in Southcentral Alaska. According to a calculation earlier this 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,...
Constantine Metal Resources Ltd. Nov. 19 reported that this year's prospecting and soil sampling has confirmed historically reported high-grade gold mineralization at Big Nugget Gold and has helped refine drill targets for follow up drilling at this project associated with the company's Palmer project in Southeast Alaska. "The Big Nugget Gold project represents a rare, untested and undrilled, high grade gold quartz vein system that is unusual to find in this day and age,"...
Tectonic Metals Inc. Nov. 12 announced that its 26-hole rotary air blast drill program at Seventymile has confirmed the company's geological model for this eastern Alaska gold exploration property and identified several large targets that warrant aggressive follow up drilling. "Tectonic is pleased to report exciting new results from our first drilling campaign at Seventymile, the first drill holes at the property in twenty years, and the first to test Tectonic's shear zone...
Nova Minerals Ltd. Oct. 22 reported impressive high-grade gold in rock samples collected from the RPM target on its 85-square-mile (220 square kilometers) Estelle gold property in Alaska. Located about 16 miles (25 kilometers) south of the 3.3-million-ounce resource in the Korbel deposit, RPM is an earlier staged gold target that show the potential for higher grade gold mineralization. One hole drilled by a previous operator in 2012 cut 177.4 meters averaging 0.79 grams per...
Tectonic Metals Inc. Sept. 14 reported strong gold intercepts from drilling at Lower Trench, a discovery zone about 1,500 meters northwest of the Michigan zone on the Tibbs project in Alaska's Goodpaster Mining District. Michigan was first tapped by Tectonic during 2019 and was a primary focus of a 27-hole program rotary air blast drill program carried out this this year at Tibbs, which is about 22 miles (35 kilometers) southeast of Northern Star Resources Ltd.'s Pogo gold...
Kinross Gold Corp. Nov. 4 reported a significant increase in gold production and drop in costs at its Fort Knox Mine about 20 miles north of Fairbanks, Alaska. "At Fort Knox, we are very pleased with the results achieved during the quarter. And I'm happy to say we expect continuation of strong results going forward," Kinross Gold Chief Technical Officer Paul Tomory informed investors and analysts on Nov. 5. During the third quarter of 2020, Fort Knox produced 72,705 ounces of...
Grande Portage Resources Ltd. Nov. 11 announced the completion of a roughly 8,500-meter drill program at Herbert Gold that involved 21 holes drilled outside the resource area at this high-grade gold project a few miles north of Juneau, Alaska. According to a calculation completed early last year, Herbert hosts 1.88 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 10.03 grams per metric ton (605,000 ounces) of gold; plus 553,429 metric tons of inferred resource averaging...
Northern Star Resources Ltd. Oct. 27 reported that its Pogo Mine in Alaska's Goodpaster Mining District produced 53,810 ounces of gold during the third quarter of 2020, a 9% increase over the 49,353 oz recovered during the previous quarter. The increased gold production is the result of slight improvements in ore grades, mill throughput, and ore recoveries. The average grade of ore mined during the third quarter was 8.9 grams per metric ton, which is about 6% higher than the...
Resolution Minerals Ltd. Nov. 1 reported that drilling has resumed at the Aurora gold target on the 64North project in Alaska. Located in the Goodpaster Mining District, the 160,000-acre 64North project includes nine claim blocks – West Pogo, Shaw, Eagle, LMS-X, South Pogo, East Pogo, North Pogo, Last Chance and Divide. Resolution, which has the option to earn a 60% interest in this large gold project from Millrock Resources Inc. by investing US$20 million in exploration spend...
Teck Resources Ltd. Oct. 27 reported that water-related restrictions and unexpected repairs at Red Dog slowed zinc and lead production at this mine in Southwest Alaska during the third quarter. During the three months ending Sept. 30, the Red Dog Mine produced 123,300 metric tons (271.8 million pounds) of zinc, which is a 20% drop from the 153,100 metric tons (337.5 million lb) produced during the same period of 2019. Likewise, lead production during the third quarter of this...
Tectonic Metals Inc. Oct. 26 reported that soils sampling has identified numerous drill-ready gold exploration targets that are strikingly similar to the deposits being mine at Northern Star Resources Ltd.'s Pogo Mine about 22 miles (35 kilometers) northwest of Tibbs. Tectonic crews collected 1,153 soil samples at Tibbs this year. This sampling primarily focused on exploring the gneissic rocks in the west of the property, where recent mapping highlights low-angle faults...
Heliostar Metals Ltd. (formerly Redstar Gold Corp.) Nov. 5 announced the addition of two new members of its exploration management team. Samuel Anderson, who spent 17 years as a geologist at Newmont Gold Corp., has been named Heliostar vice president of exploration and is currently leading the company's gold exploration program on Alaska's Unga Island. During his time at Newmont, Anderson held successive positions from exploration project manager to senior manager of...
Heliostar Metals Ltd. (formerly Redstar Gold Corp.) said the Oct. 19 magnitude 7.5 earthquake with an epicenter about 45 miles south of Unga Island did not have any major impacts on its gold exploration there. The originally planned 6,500- to 8,000-meter drill program, however, has been slowed by a dearth of drillers. "The ramp-up of our drilling program has been slower than planned due to difficulty staffing the three contract rigs at site," said Heliostar Metals CEO Charles...
HighGold Mining Inc. Oct. 15 reported that step out drilling continues to expand the gold-rich resource at the Johnson Tract project in Southcentral Alaska, including a copper-rich zone in the footwall of the JT deposit. According to a calculation earlier this 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, 0.57% (26.8 million...
