The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
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Blackwolf Copper and Gold Ltd. Feb. 23 announced the first update of the year with highly encouraging surface sample assay results from 2021 reconnaissance exploration programs at its Southeast Alaska properties. 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 Trio zones of the property. According to a 2011 calculation, these...
Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities March 25 announced that it will perform an independent analysis of the route between the proposed Manh Choh gold mine near the community of Tetlin and Kinross Alaska's mill at the Fort Knox mine north of Fairbanks, Alaska. Peak Gold JV – a partnership between Kinross Gold Corp. (70%) and Contango ORE Inc. (30%) – plans to truck high-grade ore mined at Manh Choh to the Fort Knox mill for processing. Utilizing the pro...
Grande Portage Resources Ltd. March 29 announced the remaining drill results from its summer and fall 2021 drill program at the Herbert Gold project in Southeast Alaska. These results will be added to the company's NI 43-101 mineral resource estimate. According to a calculation completed in May of last year, Herbert Gold 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...
Graphite One Inc. March 14 announced that it has selected Washington as the location for the processing plant that will upgrade concentrates mined at its Graphite Creek project in Alaska to the spherical coated graphite needed for lithium-ion batteries and other advanced graphitic materials. According to a 2019 calculation, the Graphite Creek mine project about 35 miles north of the Alaska gold mining town of Nome hosts 10.95 million metric tons of measured and indicated...
Trilogy Metals Inc. March 17 reported additional "outstanding but not unexpected" results from the 2021 infill drilling at the Arctic deposit on the Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects in Northwest Alaska. The company also provided a brief update on the U.S. Department of Interior's suspension of permits to build a road to the Ambler Mining District where UKMP is located. Being advanced by Ambler Metals LLC, a joint venture operating company equally owned by Trilogy and South32...
Freegold Ventures Ltd. reported additional strong gold mineralization from 2021 holes drilled in both the Cleary Vein and Dolphin zones on its Golden Summit exploration project about 25 miles north of Fairbanks, Alaska. Located about 25 miles north of Fairbanks, Alaska, and adjacent to Kinross Gold Corp.'s Fort Knox Mine, Golden Summit hosts 61.5 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 0.69 grams per metric ton (1.36 million ounces) gold; and 71.5 million metric...
Millrock Resources Inc. March 9 reported that the 2021 sampling and mapping program at Apex has identified a new gold-in-soil anomaly extending more than 1,000 meters northeast of old workings at this historical gold mining project about 70 miles southwest of Juneau, Alaska. Assays of soil samples from a broad gold-in-soil anomaly in the lower cirque valley of Cann Creek returned values ranging from below detection to a maximum of 33.9 grams per metric ton (1.09 ounces per...
Nova Minerals Ltd. Feb. 28 announced the completion of a scoping study that provides a first glimpse of the economics and parameters of developing a mine at the Korbel Main deposit on the company's Estelle gold property in Alaska. "The company is pleased to announce the strong, positive results of the scoping study which was focused on Korbel Main only to determine whether the resource defined at the deposit to date can support a potentially viable stand-alone starter...
PolarX Ltd. March 15 announced that it plans to carry out further drilling this year to expand upon the very high-grade copper mineralization encountered last year at its Caribou Dome project in Alaska. Located toward the western end of the Australia-based company's 22-mile- (35 kilometers) long Alaska Range property, Caribou Dome hosts 2.8 million metric tons of combined measured, indicated, and inferred resources averaging 3.1% (189.6 million pounds) copper in nine lenses of...
GoldMining Inc. Feb. 28 announced the creation of a new subsidiary, U.S. GoldMining Inc., to advance the company's Whistler copper-gold-silver project adjacent to Nova Minerals Ltd.'s Estelle gold project in Alaska. The Whistler, Raintree West, and Island Mountain deposits on the roughly 42,000-acre Whistler property 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%...
Avidian Gold Corp. Feb. 28 announced an update from the Copper King and Long Creek 2021 reverse-circulation drill program at its district-scale Golden Zone project strategically located in Southcentral Alaska. "The 2021 drilling results suggest that in the Copper King & Long Creek area, a nearby mineralized intrusive provided gold, copper and silver-bearing solutions that precipitated into favourable permeable sedimentary units that can be traced for over 2 kilometers and...
Avidian Gold Corp. Mar. 7 announced it has staked nearly 4,200 acres (1,700 hectares) of ground immediately to the south and southwest of its Golden Zone property, rubbing elbows with Discovery Alaska Ltd.'s Chulitna project and expanding the total volume of the district-scale land holdings to 34,870 acres (14,200 hectares). "We staked this additional ground as the significant gold discoveries at the Southwest Prospect area trended to the southwest into unexplored open ground...
Tectonic Metals Inc. March 10 announced that its 2021 Phase II drill program at the Tibbs gold project in Alaska's Goodpaster Mining District has discovered the elusive low-angle, Pogo-style veins at Gray Lead West. Located about 22 miles (35 kilometers) southeast of Northern Star Resources Ltd.'s Pogo gold mine, Tibbs is known for high-grade gold targets. While high-angle feeder veins similar to those found at Pogo had previously been identified at Tibbs, the stacks of more...
Millrock Resources Inc. Feb. 14 announced that it has assembled an extensive land package covering nickel-copper-cobalt-platinum group metals prospects in Alaska's underexplored Wrangellia Terrane. Formerly known as the Man project, Millrock's new Nikolai project includes the Eureka and Canwell claim blocks about 80 miles (130 kilometers) south of Delta Junction, Alaska. Consisting of 104 state mining claims staked by Millrock, the Eureka claim block covers a roughly 10-mile-...
White Rock Minerals Ltd. Feb. 17 reported that it has doubled the inferred resource at Dry Creek with 3,800 meters of drilling completed last year in 12 holes at this high-grade volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit on the company's Red Mountain project in Alaska. Located about 60 miles (100 kilometers) south of Fairbanks, the 323-square-mile (836 square kilometers) project hosts both high-grade zinc-lead-silver-gold VMS deposits and intrusion-related gold prospects. "The dual...
Freegold Ventures Ltd. Feb. 9 said crews are preparing for the start of the 2022 drill program at the company's highway-accessible Golden Summit project about 25 miles north of Fairbanks, Alaska. An initial 20,000-meter drill program slated for this year will target the continued expansion of the higher-grade gold mineralization encountered within the Dolphin deposit and adjacent Cleary Hill area over the past two years. Prior to 2020, most of the drilling at Golden Summit...
PolarX Ltd. Feb. 23 reported that its 2021 drill program at Caribou Dome has tapped thick lenses of high-grade copper that the outstanding quality of the mineral resource and potential for developing a mine at this deposit on the Australia-based company's Alaska Range property. As its name suggests, this property covers a 22-mile- (35 kilometers) long stretch of the majestic and mineral-rich Alaska mountain range that arcs across the middle of the Far North state. PolarX'...
Grande Portage Resources Ltd Feb. 24 reported partial drill results from its summer and fall 2021 drill program at the Herbert Gold project in Southeast Alaska. Completed in late October, the results from these drill holes are from infill and expansion drilling and are expected to be added to the company's NI 43-101 resource estimate reported at a base case mineral resources cut-off grade of 0.3 grams per metric ton gold and consists of an indicated resource of 1.2 million oz...
Coeur Mining Inc. Feb. 16 reported strong gold production during the fourth quarter at its Kensington Mine in Southeast Alaska and continued progress toward the restart of an expanded mine at its Silvertip project in Northern BC. During the final three months of 2021, Kensington produced 33,516 ounces of gold from 168,295 tons of ore averaging 0.21 ounces per ton gold. This is nearly a 19% increase over the 28,621 recovered from 160,596 tons of ore during the third quarter....
Graphite One Inc. Feb. 15 reports that a more environmentally sound fire suppressing foam enhanced with advanced graphite material from its Graphite Creek deposit in western Alaska shows the potential to meet the United States' military firefighting standards. "While Graphite One's primary focus remains the production of lithium-ion battery anode grade material, our foam fire suppressant work is a prime example of the advanced graphite material opportunities in markets...
Trilogy Metals Inc. Jan. 25 reported that the latest batch of assays from the infill drilling at Arctic continues to confirm that high copper and zinc grades are the rule and not the exception at this volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit at the Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects in Northwest Alaska. A 2020 feasibility study details plans for a financially robust mining operation at this world-class deposit that would produce 1.9 billion pounds of copper, 2.3 billion lb of zinc, 388...
HighGold Mining Inc. Jan. 25 reported that the geological mapping, geochemical sampling, geophysical surveys, and exploration drilling carried out during 2021 has shown that the strong gold-rich mineralization identified in the JT deposit and encountered with discovery drilling at the DC prospect is widespread across the 20,942-acre Johnson Tract property in Southcentral Alaska. "We are seeing encouraging results across the length and breadth of the property and believe that...
Felix Gold Ltd. Jan. 31 announced the completion of an A$10 million (U$7.1 million) initial public offering and listing on the Australian Securities Exchange under the ASX symbol FXG. "This is a significant milestone for your company and the board of Felix would like to thank all shareholders for their strong support," Felix Gold Managing Director and CEO Kylie Prendergast penned in a Jan. 31 letter to shareholders. "Listed or unlisted, our overarching objective of becoming a...
Goldrich Mining Company Feb. 8 announced that it plans to carry out a roughly 4,000-meter drill program this year at its Chandalar gold property in northern Alaska. Located about 190 miles north of Fairbanks, the 23,000-acre Chandalar property hosts rich deposits of placer gold and several hardrock gold occurrences and historic mines. Drilling carried out by Goldrich in 2010 outlined an estimated 250,000 ounces of placer gold in 10.5 million cubic yards of gravel in the Little...
Trilogy Metals Inc. Jan. 20 published an updated mineral resource estimate for Bornite that shines a spotlight on the very high copper and cobalt grades in the underground South Reef area of this world-class deposit on the Upper Kobuk Minerals Projects in the Ambler Mining District of Northwest Alaska. Located about 15 miles southwest of Arctic, the most advanced of the UKMP projects, Bornite is a large and high-grade deposit that hosts 6.3 billion pounds of copper and 88...
