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Drills tap gold-silver in former waste rock of proposed pit Skeena Resources Ltd. Sept. 6 announced the first batch of assay results from a 2022 drill program focused largely on supplementing the existing mine plan for its Eskay Creek gold-silver project in Northern British Columbia with additional near-surface mineralization amenable to open pit mining. A feasibility study released by the company on Sept. 8 details an open pit mine at Eskay Creek that would produce 2.42...
Ascot Resources Ltd. Aug. 24 reported that drilling has cut additional strong gold mineralization at Sebakwe, a discovery zone about 600 meters southwest of the mill on the company's Premier mine project in the Golden Triangle region of British Columbia. Discovered during 2021, this mineralization appears to represent an unmined structure immediately north of the Northern Light and Premier deposits at Premier. Highlights from two holes drilled at Sebakwe during 2021 include:...
Dolly Varden Silver Corp. Aug. 10 announced that drilling has cut a wide section of high-grade silver mineralization outside the resource area of the Kitsol Vein near the historic Torbrit Mine on the company's Kitsault Valley project in British Columbia. Located about 25 miles (40 kilometers) southeast of Stewart, BC, the 63-square-mile (163 square kilometers) Kitsault Valley project is an amalgamation of the Dolly Varden silver project and the adjacent Homestake Ridge...
Benchmark Metals Inc. Aug. 16 published results from a preliminary economic assessment that outlines an economically robust mine at its Lawyers project in Northern British Columbia that would produce 1.7 million ounces of gold and 26.7 million oz of silver over an initial 12 years of mining. According to a calculation completed in June, the AGB, Cliff Creek, and Dukes Ridge deposits at Lawyers host 67.38 million metric tons of measured and indicated resources averaging 1.26...
Giga Metals Corp. Aug. 15 announced that Mitsubishi Corp. has entered into an agreement to form a joint venture to advance the development of a mine at the Turnagain nickel-cobalt project in Northern British Columbia. While best known for its automobiles, Mitsubishi businesses span a broad range of industries that include both industrial materials and mineral resources. The Turnagain project offers this diversified Japanese company with a potential carbon-neutral source of...
Core Assets Corp. Aug. 8 reported that assays from the first two holes of the 2022 season returned strong copper and gold skarn intercepts, as well as a wider section of porphyry-style copper mineralization at the Laverdiere project on the company's Blue property in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Located in the gold-rich Atlin Mining District, Blue is a 111,649-hectare (275,890 acres) land package covering high-grade skarn and carbonate replacement and porphyry prospects...
Benchmark Metals Inc. July 27 announced plans to drill multiple new targets near the AGB deposit on the company's Lawyers gold-silver project in Northern British Columbia. One of three deposits currently delineated at Lawyers, AGB hosts 11.37 million metric tons of pit-constrained measured and indicated resources averaging 1.05 grams per metric ton (384,000 ounces) gold and 43.9 g/t (16.1 million oz) silver. Benchmark has identified multiple intriguing targets adjacent to AGB...
Ascot Resources Ltd. July 14 reported that this year's drilling has cut bonanza grade gold at the emerging Sebakwe zone on the Premier mine project in the Golden Triangle region of British Columbia. Located less than 600 meters southwest of the mill being refurbished and updated at Premier, Sebakwe appears to represent an unmined structure immediately north of the Northern Light and Premier deposits. Highlights from two holes drilled at Sebakwe during the 2021 program include:...
Blackwolf Copper and Gold Ltd. July 19 announced the acquisition of yet another property through staking, the Rooster property, its fifth claim group in the Golden Triangle area and the company's first in British Columbia. Situated near the mining towns of Hyder, Alaska and Stewart, BC, recent additions to the Blackwolf portfolio are the Texas Creek and Cantoo properties, Southeast Alaska properties that lie immediately west of the Premier gold project and south of...
Geoscience BC June 28 announced that data for hundreds more mineral exploration and development reports in British Columbia can now be searched by location for the first time. National Instrument 43-101 technical reports contain comprehensive geoscience data on prospective mineral properties and are available from the Canadian Securities Administrators' SEDAR website. The inability to search these technical reports by location, however, makes it challenging to find data relate...
Scottie Resources Corp. June 9 announced that it plans to carry out 15,000 meters of drilling this year at its Scottie Gold Mine project about 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Stewart, British Columbia. This property is home to the Scottie Mine, which produced 95,426 ounces of gold from ore averaging 16.2 grams per metric ton gold over five years of operation beginning in 1981. Roughly 12,000 meters of this year's drill program at Scottie, slated to begin later this month,...
Seabridge Gold Inc. June 13 reported that it is preparing to launch a drill program to test the Bronson Slope and Quartz Rise gold-copper targets along a recently recognized trend of mineralization on the company's Iskut property in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. "We have identified a regional trend that seems to be a primary control on the distribution of mineralized intrusive centers and this discovery has created considerable excitement in our team," said Seabridge...
Benchmark Metals Inc. June 13 announced that its Lawyers gold-silver project in Northern British Columbia now hosts 2.74 million ounces of gold and 52.9 million oz of silver in the measured and indicated resource category. The updated resource for Lawyers includes the results from 200,000 meters of drilling completed in 1,097 holes at the Cliff Creek, AGB and Dukes Ridge deposits. "The expanded Mineral Resource Estimate is demonstrating the world-class potential of Benchmark's...
Benchmark Metals Inc. May 31 announced the signing of a new agreement with the Tahltan Central Government that establishes processes that allow the Tahltan First Nation to engage and benefit from Benchmark's exploration of the Lawyers gold-silver project in Northern British Columbia. The roughly 96,000-square-kilometer (37,000 square miles) Tahltan Territory, which covers approximately 70% of the Golden Triangle region of northwestern BC, extends east to the north-central...
Eskay Mining Corp. June 1 launched a 30,000-meter drill program at the company's Consolidated Eskay gold-silver project in Northern British Columbia. "2022 brings the most aggressive drill campaign ever undertaken at the Consolidated Eskay VMS Project," said Quinton Hennigh, a technical advisor and director of Eskay Mining. Covering a corridor of volcanogenic massive sulfide gold mineralization trending south from Skeena Resources Ltd.'s Eskay Creek gold-silver project, and...
Cassiar Gold Corp. June 1 announced the start of a 20,000-meter drill program on its namesake gold property in Northern British Columbia. Located about 55 miles (90 kilometers) southwest of Watson Lake, Yukon, the 145,800-acre (59,000 hectares) Cassiar gold property is divided into two areas – Cassiar North, which hosts the bulk tonnage Taurus gold deposit, and Cassiar South, which hosts multiple high-grade gold targets. Roughly half of this year's drilling will be drilled in...
Benchmark Metals Inc. May 24 reported that drilling cut high-grade gold and silver within a wider zone of mineralization in the Marmot discovery area of the company's Lawyers property in Northern British Columbia. According to a calculation completed about a year ago, Lawyers hosts 40.3 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 1.19 grams per metric ton (1.55 million ounces) gold and 38.7 g/t (50.2 million oz) silver; plus 16.2 million metric tons of inferred...
Dolly Varden Silver Corp. May 17 announced that crews are gearing up for an initial 30,000-meter drill program that will focus on upgrading and expanding the resources at Dolly Varden and Homestake Ridge, as well as explore for more gold and silver mineralization between these deposits on the company's Kitsault Valley project in Northern British Columbia. Located about 25 miles (40 kilometers) southeast of the mining town of Stewart, BC, the 63-square mile (163 square kilomete...
Garibaldi Resources Corp. May 13 reported that early-stage exploratory drilling at the Casper target on its Nickel Mountain property in British Columbia's Golden Triangle cut gold mineralization along 260 meters strike length of the quartz-gold vein system. Located about 11 miles (18 kilometers) southwest of the historic Eskay Creek Mine, Nickel Mountain is best known for the E&L zone, a high-grade magmatic nickel-copper-cobalt massive sulfide discovery surrounded by a...
Benchmark Metals Inc. April 29 reported that strong results from this year's resource expansion drilling at Dukes Ridge indicates that this deposit still has gold and silver to contribute to the overall resource on the company's Lawyers project in Northern British Columbia. According to a calculation completed last year at about this time, the Cliff Creek, AGB, and Dukes Ridge deposits at Lawyers host 40.3 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 1.19 grams per...
Ascot Resources Ltd. May 9 announced an earlier than expected start to the 2022 exploration drill program at its Premier gold-silver mine project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. "Given the high levels of snowfall early in the winter, we were pleasantly surprised by the mild weather in recent months and are excited to get an earlier start than last year on this season's exploration drilling program," said Ascot Resources President and CEO Derek White. Located on Nisga'a...
Copper Fox Metals Inc. April 19 reported plans to carry out 5,000 meters of drilling this summer at the Schaft Creek copper-gold-molybdenum-silver project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Being advanced under a joint venture between Teck Resources Ltd. (75%) and Copper Fox (25%), 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...
Skeena Resources Ltd. March 30 announced plans to increase its landholdings in British Columbia's Golden Triangle by roughly sevenfold through the acquisition of QuestEx Gold & Copper Ltd., an exploration company that holds one of the largest land positions for mining in this region. QuestEx' 84,889-hectare (209,700 acres) land position is encompassed by nine projects in the Golden Triangle – KSP, Kingpin, Hit, Sofia, Heart Peaks, Castle, Moat, Coyote, and North ROK. Under an...
Seabridge Gold Inc. April 14 announced that Mitchell and East Mitchell, two of the five deposits on the company's KSM project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle, host a combined 72 million ounces of gold, 323 million oz of silver, 11.9 billion pounds of copper, and 171 million lb of molybdenum. Seabridge acquired East Mitchell, then known as Snowfield, from Pretium Resources Inc. toward the end of 2020. A drill program carried out last year confirmed that the neighboring...
StrikePoint Gold Inc. April 12 announced the latest results from surface channel sampling as well as reconnaissance grab samples collected during the 2021 exploration at its Willoughby gold-silver property, just east of Stewart, British Columbia. Willoughby is an intrusion-related gold-silver project similar to Ascot Resources Ltd.'s Red Mountain Mine project about seven kilometers (four miles) to the west. Historical drilling on the property encountered high-grade gold and si...
