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Dolly Varden Silver Corp. May 7 announced the start of a 2021 exploration program that includes a planned 10,000 meters of drilling that will initially focus on upgrading and expanding the Torbrit silver deposit on its Dolly Varden project in Northern British Columbia. Located about 25 miles (40 kilometers) southeast of Stewart, the roughly 8,800-hectare (21,745 acres) Dolly Varden property covers four historic mines that produced more than 19 million ounces of silver over fou...
Cassiar Gold Corp. June 8 announced the start of a 15,000-meter drill program at its Cassiar Gold project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Roughly 12,000 meters of this drilling will test high-grade gold targets in the Cassiar South section of the 56,000-hectare (138,380 acres) property and 3,000 meters testing the lower grade bulk tonnage Taurus at Cassiar North. Taurus hosts 21.8 million metric tons of inferred resource averaging 1.43 grams per metric ton (1 million...
Garibaldi Resources Corp. June 1 announced that crews have arrived at the camp at Nickel Mountain for a 2021 exploration program that will further explore the battery metals for which this Northern British Columbia project is renowned, as well as to follow up on precious metals for which the Golden Triangle is renowned. "The growing demand for critical metal sources required to drive the new green economy, and precious metals to protect against increasing inflation, was the...
Skeena Resources Ltd. May 31 reported results from four more holes that demonstrate a waste rock storage facility from previous mining at the Eskay Creek project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle hosts significant quantities of gold and silver. An underground mine operated by Barrick Gold Corp. from 1994 to 2008 recovered roughly 3.3 million ounces of gold and 160 million oz of silver from ore with average grades of 45 grams per metric ton gold and 2,224 g/t silver. The...
Skeena Resources Ltd. May 25 reported that recent drilling indicates that stored waste material from previous mining could be another source of ore material for a future operation at the Eskay Creek gold-silver mine in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. An underground mine operated by Barrick Gold Corp. from 1994 to 2008 recovered roughly 3.3 million ounces of gold and 160 million oz of silver from ore with average grades of 45 grams per metric ton gold and 2,224 g/t silver....
Benchmark Metals Inc. May 26 announced that it is mobilizing a crew to launch a planned 100,000-meter drill program at its road-accessible Lawyers gold-silver project in Northern British Columbia. Earlier this month, Benchmark published its initial resource estimate for Lawyers. According to this new calculation, the Cliff Creek, AGB, Dukes Ridge and Phoenix zones at Lawyers hosts 40.3 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 1.19 grams per metric ton (1.55 million...
Skeena Resources Ltd. May 20 reported high-grade gold intercepts from its 2021 phase-3 infill and exploration drill program at Snip, home to a historic high-grade underground mine in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Operated by Barrick in the 1990s, the historic Snip Mine produced 1.1 million ounces of gold from 1.25 million metric tons of ore averaging 27.5 grams per metric ton gold. Twin, the most prolific of the high-grade zones mined by Barrick, produced 709,601 oz of g...
Alianza Minerals Ltd. May 4 reported that Coeur Explorations, a subsidiary of Coeur Mining Inc., has begun an initial exploration program at Alianza's Tim silver project in southern Yukon. Located about 19 kilometers (12 miles) northeast of Coeur's Silvertip mine in British Columbia, Tim is a road-accessible project with similar high-grade silver-lead-zinc mineralization. Historical chip sampling from a trench cut across a zone of carbonate replacement mineralization at Tim...
Perenti Global Ltd. April 26 announced that its underground mining subsidiary, Barminco, has received a letter of intent from Newcrest Mining Ltd. for the development of a 3,500-meter underground exploration decline at the Red Chris copper-gold project in Northern British Columbia. Owned under a joint venture partnership between Newcrest (70%) and Imperial Metals Corp. (30%), the Red Chris Mine hosts 980 million metric tons of measured and indicated resource averaging 0.41...
Tahltan Central Government March 31 announced a C$5 million investment to acquire 1.6 million shares of Skeena Resources Ltd., an exploration company advancing the Eskay Creek and Snip gold mine projects in Tahltan Territory. "In partnering with Skeena, the Tahltan Nation is evolving and taking significant steps forward by becoming meaningful equity partners in these projects," said Tahltan Central Government President Chad Day. "Ownership provides the Tahltan Nation with a st...
Copper Fox Metals Inc. March 22 published an updated resource estimate for Schaft Creek, a large porphyry copper-gold-silver-molybdenum project advanced under a joint venture between Teck Resources Ltd. (75%) and Copper Fox (25%). According to the new calculation, Schaft Creek hosts 1.35 billion metric tons of measured and indicated resources averaging 0.26% (7.76 billion pounds) copper, 0.17 grams per metric ton (7 million ounces) gold, 1.25 g/t (54.3 million oz) silver, and...
Skeena Resources Ltd. April 7 announced a substantially upgraded and expanded resources at its Eskay Creek gold-silver project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. According to the new calculation, Eskay Creek now hosts 37.65 million metric tons of open pit minable measured and indicated resources averaging 4.2 grams per metric ton (3.76 million ounces) gold and 82.8 g/t (100.3 million oz) silver; plus 5.24 million metric tons of open pit inferred resource averaging 1 g/t...
Benchmark Metals Inc. March 31 said shallow zones of strong gold and silver mineralization tapped with 2020 drilling at the AGB zone indicate the potential for this deposit to be the site of early mining at the Lawyers project in Northern British Columbia. AGB is one of three main resource areas in the central portion of the more than 20-kilometer- (12.4 miles) long Lawyers mineralized trend that runs across the property. Benchmark sees the potential of building a...
Copper Fox Metals Inc. March 3 announced plans for a C$3.4 million 2021 program for Schaft Creek that is slated to include a 4,000-meter metallurgical and geotechnical drill program at this advanced copper-gold-molybdenum-silver project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. "The proposed 2021 program is focused on confirming value add opportunities identified over the past two years at Schaft Creek," said Copper Fox Metals President and CEO Elmer Stewart. "The work plan...
Newcrest Mining Ltd. and Imperial Metals Corp. March 10 announced the discovery of new zones of higher-grade copper-gold mineralization at Red Chris Mine that greatly expands the near-mine exploration potential of this property about 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) southeast of the Tatogga copper-gold project Newmont Corp. is acquiring through its C$393 million buy-out of GT Gold Corp. Since Newcrest acquired a 70% interest in Red Chris in the fall of 2019, the Australia-based...
StrikePoint Gold Inc. Feb. 3 announced the discovery of a new zone of high-grade gold-silver mineralization at its Willoughby project near Stewart in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Willoughby, which lies about four miles (seven kilometers) east of Ascot Resources Ltd.'s Red Mountain Mine project, hosts at least three styles of mineralization in eight known areas, two of which were tested by a 1,715-meter drill program completed during 2020. Two of the six holes drilled...
ZincX Resources Corp. Feb. 24 reports that a district-wide evaluation of its Kechika regional zinc properties has identified 19 high-priority targets across this expansive land package that covers a 140-kilometer- (87 miles) long stretch of the Kechika Trough in northern British Columbia. The Kechika regional project encompasses 11 properties that stretch northwest from Akie – (from south to north) Pie, Cirque East, Yuen, Yuen North, Mt. Alcock, Kwad, Weiss, Bear-Spa, D...
Benchmark Metals Inc. March 3 announced plans to explore several precious metal discovery targets across the wider Lawyers property in Northern British Columbia. A road accessible property about 45 kilometers (28 miles) northwest of the Kemess gold-copper porphyry deposit, Lawyers is home to a small underground mining operation that produced 171,200 ounces of gold and 3.6 million oz of silver over a four-year period beginning in 1989. Benchmark has identified additional...
Pretium Resources Inc. Jan. 18 reported that its Brucejack Mine in Northern British Columbia produced 347,743 ounces of gold during 2020, slightly above the midpoint of the company's 325,000 to 365,000 oz guidance set at the beginning of the year. "For the first time in the company's history we have achieved our annual production guidance, demonstrating the hard-work and perseverance of our team in light of the exceptional challenges we faced this year," said Pretium Resources...
Skeena Resources Ltd. Feb. 3 reported more impressive gold and silver intercepts among the latest batch of assay results from the resource upgrade drilling at the Eskay Creek mine project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. According to the most recent calculation, Eskay Creek hosts 12.71 million metric tons of surface mineable indicated resource averaging 4.5 grams per metric ton (1.82 million ounces) gold and 117 g/t (47.79 million oz) silver; plus 13.57 metric tons of...
Tahltan Nation and Coeur Mining Inc. Jan. 19 announced the signing of a comprehensive impact and benefit agreement in connection with Coeur's Silvertip silver-zinc-lead mine located in Northern British Columbia. This agreement provides a framework for a mutually beneficial and long-term relationship between the Tahltan First Nation and Coeur Silvertip, and supports Coeur's commitment to socially and environmentally responsible mining. "We are honored to have the Tahltan...
Enduro Metals Corp. Feb. 9 reported that assay results show that the first four holes of the 2020 drill program at its Newmont Lake project in Northern British Columbia tapped shallow high-grade gold associated with longer intervals of bulk-tonnage mineralization. "That is exactly what we want because ultimately near-surface high-grade gold mineralization in the Golden Triangle is commonly spatially associated with a porphyry deposit," said Enduro Metals CEO Cole Evans....
Benchmark Metals Inc. Feb. 3 reported that bulk tonnage and high-grade gold intercepts in the southern portion of Cliff Creek has expanded the length of this deposit area on the company's Lawyers project in northcentral British Columbia to more than 1,200 meters. Home to a small underground mining operation that produced 171,200 ounces of gold and 3.6 million oz of silver over a four-year period beginning in 1989, the Lawyers property covers a more than 20-kilometer- (12.4...
Kutcho Copper Corp. Feb. 11 announced an updated and expanded resource estimate for its Kutcho high-grade copper-zinc project in Northern British Columbia. According to the new calculation, the three deposits that make up the Kutcho project – Main, Esso and Sumac – host 18.58 million metric tons of measured and indicated resources averaging 1.78% copper, 2.58% zinc, 0.47 grams per metric ton gold, and 32.8 g/t silver; plus 13.24 million metric tons of inferred resource ave...
Ascot Resources Ltd. Jan. 26 reported that drilling has tapped high-grade gold and silver in the Woodbine prospect about 800 meters west of the mill on its Premier Mine project near Stewart, British Columbia. Located about 1,000 meters northwest of the 609 and 602 resource zones, the Woodbine prospect is separated from the main Premier deposit by the Cascade Creek fault. Mineralization has been known in this area and small underground workings exist at two elevations at the we...
