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Pretium Resources Inc. Oct. 25 announced that its 2021 exploration drilling has cut bonanza-grade gold mineralization at Golden Marmot, a discovery zone about 3.5 kilometers (2.2 miles) northwest of the Valley of the Kings deposit on the company's Brucejack property in Northern British Columbia. "Initial results from Golden Marmot are exciting and affirm the district-scale potential of the Brucejack property," said Pretium Resources President and CEO Jacques Perron. Golden...
Skeena Resources Ltd. Oct. 16 announced that Peru-based Hochschild Mining PLC will begin spending roughly C$100 million to earn a 60% joint venture interest in the Snip gold mine project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. "The Hochschild team has a reputation for being among the best underground miners in the world for narrow, high-grade deposits and we are fortunate to have them as our formal partner on Snip going forward," said Skeena Resources CEO Walter Coles Jr....
Brixton Metals Corp. Oct. 19 reported a wide section of porphyry copper-gold-silver-molybdenum mineralization from drilling at the Camp Creek target on its Thorn project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Located about 95 kilometers (60 miles) east of Juneau, Alaska, the 2,600-square-kilometer (1,004 square miles) Thorn property hosts large-scale porphyry copper-gold-silver-molybdenum and volcanic-sediment hosted gold-silver targets. The latest batch of assay results is...
Enduro Metals Corp. Oct. 18 announced the discovery of a new porphyry copper-gold system at Burgundy Ridge on the company's 654-square-kilometer (253 square miles) Newmont Lake project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Several shallow holes completed during a first-pass drill program at Burgundy Ridge during 2019 cut mineralization, including one hole that cut 91 meters averaging 0.38% copper and 0.3 grams per metric ton gold from a depth of 36 meters. Following up on...
Eskay Mining Corp. Oct. 13 announced the conclusion of a roughly 23,500-meter drill program at its Consolidated Eskay precious metals project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Eskay's aggressive 2021 drill program is primarily focused on following up on two gold- and silver-enriched VMS discoveries – TV and Jeff – made last year. Out of 20 holes drilled at these targets last year, 18 cut impressive precious metal intercepts. Highlights from the 2020 drilling at TV include...
Brixton Metals Corp. Sept. 27 reported additional high-grade gold, along with strong silver and copper, in additional samples collected from the Trapper target on its 1,000-square-mile (2,600 square kilometers) Thorn project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Earlier this year, Brixton discovered previously unrecognized visible gold while relogging core from 2011 drilling by a previous explorer at Trapper, a volcanic-hosted epithermal target about five miles (eight...
Skeena Resources Ltd. Oct. 4 announced that it has begun a second phase of drilling at the Albino Waste Facility on its Eskay Creek gold-silver project in the Golden Triangle of Northern British Columbia. The waste material stored in this facility is from an underground mine operated by Barrick Gold Corp. from 1994 to 2008 that 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...
Seabridge Gold Inc. Aug. 11 reported that a magnetotelluric geophysical survey carried out at Iskut earlier this year has further refined targets for a roughly 3,200-meter drill program testing for a gold-copper porphyry mineral system similar to those on the company's nearby KSM project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Situated about 30 kilometers (19 miles) west of Seabridge's world-class KSM gold-copper project, Iskut is home to the historical high-grade Johnny...
ZincX Resources Corp. Sept. 23 announced that assay results show that the first hole of its 2021 drill program cut a broad envelope of zinc-lead-silver mineralization at the Cardiac Creek deposit on the company's Kechika properties, an 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) P...
Kutcho Copper Corp. Sept. 13 said it expects the feasibility study for its Kutcho copper-zinc project in Northern British Columbia to be completed in October. While this is later than originally planned, the company says the anticipated mine optimizations and improvements will be worth the wait. A 2017 prefeasibility study, completed immediately prior to Kutcho's acquisition of the project, considers the development of a 2,500-metric-ton-per-day operation that would produce...
Ascot Resources Ltd. Sept. 8 announced that the ball and SAG (semi-autogenous grinding) mills have been delivered and are being prepared for installation inside the mill building at the company's Premier gold project near Stewart, British Columbia. Home to a past-producing mine that last operated in the 1990s, Premier has all the major infrastructure – mill, assay lab, crusher, tailings storage area, and underground workings – in place to resume operations. A feasibility stu...
Brixton Metals Corp. Aug. 23 announced that visible gold has been encountered in six of the first eight holes drilled during the company's maiden drill program at the Trapper target at its 1,000-square-mile (2,600 square kilometers) Thorn gold-copper-silver project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. "The discovery of visible gold in drilling is obviously exciting for us," said Brixton Metals President and CEO Gary Thompson. Earlier this year, Brixton discovered previously...
Benchmark Metals Inc. Sept. 2 provided an update on its ongoing exploration at Marmot and Marmot East, potential resource expansion zones on the company's Lawyers gold project in Northern British Columbia. According to a calculation published in May, the Cliff Creek, AGB, and Dukes Ridge deposits at Lawyers host 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...
Doubleview Gold Corp. Aug. 5 reported that drilling has encountered scandium and other critical minerals alongside the copper and gold at its Hat project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Located in the heart of Tahltan Territory, about 95 kilometers (60 miles) west of the community of Dease Lake, Hat hosts porphyry-style copper-gold mineralization similar to other large deposits in northwestern British Columbia. Earlier this year, the Tahltan Central Government notified...
Ascot Resources Ltd. Aug. 9 reported that drilling continues to discover new zones of high-grade gold and silver mineralization to the northwest of the resource outlined in the Premier-Northern Lights deposit at its mine project near Stewart, British Columbia. "We are very pleased with recent drill results as they build upon recent success in this area northwest of the Premier deposit and have identified new areas of high-grade mineralization outside of existing resources,"...
Brixton Metals Corp. July 26 announced the discovery of abundant visible gold in a previously unexplored outcrop at the Trapper target on its 1,000-square-miles (2,600 square kilometers) Thorn gold-copper-silver project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Situated about 55 miles (90 kilometers) northeast of Juneau, Alaska, the district-scale Thorn property hosts large-scale porphyry copper-gold-silver-molybdenum and volcanic-sediment hosted gold-silver targets. Located...
Skeena Resources Ltd. Aug. 4 announced that its 2021 phase-3 infill drilling at Snip has confirmed and upgraded the modeled vein mineralization in the eastern footwall of this high-grade gold project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. According to a 2020 calculation, Snip hosts 539,000 metric tons of indicated resource averaging 14 grams per metric ton (244,000 ounces) gold; and 942,000 metric tons of inferred resources averaging 13.3 g/t (402,000 oz) gold. The phase-3...
Newcrest Mining Ltd. and Imperial Metals Corp. July 22 reported that the Red Chris mine in Northern British Columbia produced 17.6 million pounds copper and 15,451 ounces gold during the second quarter, compared to 15.9 million lb of copper and 15,850 oz of gold during the first quarter. This nearly 11% increase in copper and nearly par gold production during the second quarter is the result of increased mill throughput and recoveries that was offset by lower head grades of...
Enduro Metals Corp. June 30 announced that it has mobilized crews for a 10,000-meter drill program at the company's 654-square-kilometer (253 square miles) Newmont Lake gold-silver-copper project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. This fully-funded drill program has been designed to test the highest priority targets from extensive grassroots exploration and research since 2018. "The 2021 exploration season is an amalgamation of everything our technical team has learned...
Giga Metals Corp. July 5 announced the start of a 2021 field program focused on upgrading the resource and collecting other data needed for a prefeasibility study for its Turnagain nickel-cobalt project in Northern British Columbia. "This work program is designed to collect all necessary exploration, geotechnical and other data to advance project engineering to the pre-feasibility level," said Giga Metals CEO Mark Jarvis. This PFS will build upon a preliminary economic...
Skeena Resources Ltd. July 7 reported that as much as 110.22 grams per metric ton gold over 4.41 meters was encountered in new veins during the phase-3 drilling at Snip, home to a historic high-grade underground mine in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. According to a 2020 calculation, Snip hosts 539,000 metric tons of indicated resource averaging 14 g/t (244,000 ounces) gold; and 942,000 metric tons of inferred resources averaging 13.3 g/t (402,000 oz) gold. The phase-3...
Pretium Resources Inc. June 18 reported some impressive high-grade results from the 83 holes completed during the second phase of North Block resource expansion drilling at Brucejack, even by the Bonanza grade standards of this gold mine in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Going into 2021, the Valley of the Kings deposit at Brucejack hosted 11.5 million metric tons of proven and probable reserves averaging 8.7 grams per metric ton (3.2 million ounces) gold and 9.8 g/t (3.6...
Ascot Resources Ltd. July 8 announced the discovery of new high-grade copper, gold, and silver mineralization west of the main deposit on the company's Premier project near the town of Stewart, at the southern tip of British Columbia's Golden Triangle. A planned 25,000-meter drill program at Premier got underway in late May by following up on the 2020 success west of the Premier deposit, a lower-elevation area that is easier to access early in the year. Highlights from the 202...
StrikePoint Gold Inc. June 16 reported the 2021 exploration programs are now underway at its Porter Silver and Willoughby gold-silver properties east of the mining town of Stewart in British Columbia's prolific Golden Triangle. "Our 2021 drilling programs are the most aggressive in the company's history," said StrikePoint Gold President and CEO Shawn Khunkhun. This drilling will begin with an initial 5,000-meter phase of 2021 drilling at Porter, a past-producing silver...
Newcrest Mining Ltd. and Imperial Metals Corp. June 9 reported additional higher-grade mineralization in the newly discovered East Ridge zone at the Red Chris copper-gold mine in Northern British Columbia. Since Newcrest acquired a 70% interest in Red Chris in the fall of 2019, the joint venture partners have completed more than 136,631 meters of drilling at the project, much of which has tested discovery targets outside of the resource. According to the new Australian Joint...
