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Dolly Varden Silver Corp. Oct. 7 reported high-grade silver intercepts from infill and resource expansion drilling at the Torbrit deposit on the company's Dolly Varden project in Northwest British Columbia. The roughly 21,745-acre (8,800 hectares) Dolly Varden property covers four historic mines that produced more than 19 million ounces of silver over four decades beginning in 1919. Four deposits associated with these historic mines – Torbrit, Dolly Varden, Wolf and North S...
StrikePoint Gold Inc. Jan. 21 reported that 2020 sampling has discovered new high-grade silver veins and extensions of already known veins at the company's Porter silver property on Mount Rainey overlooking Stewart, a town at the southern tip of British Columbia's Golden Triangle. "We are clearly looking at a high-grade silver vein system located within view of the mining town of Stewart, BC," said StrikePoint Gold CEO Shawn Khunkhun. Early 20th century mining of the vein...
Benchmark Metals Inc. Jan. 4 announced plans for up to a C$30 million 2021 exploration and drilling program focused on advancing its road accessible Lawyers gold-silver project in northcentral British Columbia toward feasibility. Toward this goal, the company completed 87,298 meters of drilling in 388 holes during 2020. Results from the drilling, which are still rolling in, will be incorporated into a new resource estimate for Lawyers in the first quarter and a preliminary...
Skeena Resources Ltd. Jan. 6 reported additional high-grade gold and silver intercepts at its Eskay Creek mine project in Northern British Columbia, including a previous undiscovered area of at surface mineralization that could increase resource tonnage and reduce the strip ratio at 22 Zone. Located about 1,000 meters southwest of the five contiguous zones that make up the primary resource area at Eskay Creek, 22 Zone is envisioned to be mined from a separate open pit. A 2019...
Garibaldi Resources Corp. Dec. 31 reported that its 2020 exploration program at Nickel Mountain demonstrated the expansion potential of the E&L zones, despite the significant challenge faced last year at this nickel, copper, cobalt, platinum group metals, gold, and silver enriched project in the heart of British Columbia's Golden Triangle. "Garibaldi management is very pleased with the progress made during the 2020 exploration season," said Garibaldi Resources President and...
Pretium Resources Inc. Dec. 16 said the discovery of high-grade gold within broad intervals of bulk tonnage mineralization at the Hanging Glacier zone about four kilometers (2.5 miles) northwest of its Brucejack Mine, demonstrates the wider potential of this Northern British Columbia property. Pretium completed 25,350 meters of grassroots exploration drilling at four zones – Hanging Glacier, A6, Koopa, and Haimila – across its 1,200-square kilometer (463 square miles) Brucejac...
Skeena Resources Ltd. Dec. 8 reported that the phase-1 drill program at Eskay Creek continues to verify the expected grades, thickness and continuity of mineralization modelled in 22 Zone and encountered a new pod of high-grade gold-silver mineralization about 200 meters to the northeast. Located about 1,000 meters southwest of the five contiguous zones that make up the primary resource area at Eskay Creek, 22 Zone is envisioned to be mined from a separate open-pit. Skeena rep...
Cassiar Gold Corp. Dec. 1 reported wide section of gold mineralization in sparsely drilled areas of the Taurus deposit at the company's Cassiar gold project in Northern British Columbia. The 60,000-hectare (148,260 acres) Cassiar property hosts both lower grade bulk tonnage and high-grade vein occurrences across a 15-kilometer (nine miles) structural corridor. Taurus, the most advanced bulk tonnage target at Cassiar, hosts 21.8 million metric tons of inferred resource...
Newcrest Minerals Ltd. and Imperial Metals Corp. Dec. 10 reported results from 12,652 meters of drilling completed at the Red Chris copper-gold mine property in Northern British Columbia since the end of September. This drilling included six holes focused on the discovery of additional zones of higher-grade mineralization within the Red Chris porphyry corridor and two geotechnical holes. Newcrest reports that all six exploration holes encountered mineralization. One of the...
Copper Fox Metals Inc. Nov. 24 reported that it is having a preliminary economic assessment completed for Schaft Creek, a copper-gold-molybdenum project in northwestern British Columbia being advanced under a joint venture between Teck Resources Ltd. (75%) and Copper Fox (25%). Prior to the 2013 formation of this JV, Copper Fox had a feasibility study prepared that detailed a 130,000-metric-ton-per-day open-pit mining operation at Schaft Creek estimated to produce 4.88...
Brixton Metals Corp. Dec. 1 reported that 16 holes drilled at Thorn has expanded gold-silver mineralization at the Outlaw target on this project in the northwest corner of British Columbia's Golden Triangle. The company says this year's drilling extended the Central Outlaw zone by 164 meters, for a new total of 600 meters of continuous near-surface gold-silver mineralization. Highlights from the 2020 drilling at Central Outlaw includes 12.4 meters averaging 0.7 grams per...
Ascot Resources Ltd. Nov. 19 reports that drilling has tapped gold between the newly discovered Day Zone and the Big Missouri gold deposit on the company's Premier gold-silver project just outside of Stewart, British Columbia. The drilling at Day Zone is part of Ascot's 2020 program aimed at testing zones that could provide additional ore to a new era of gold mining at the historic Premier Mine. A feasibility study completed for Ascot earlier this year envisions four mines – S...
Benchmark Metals Inc. Nov. 9 reported that long sections of gold and silver mineralization tapped at the southern end of Cliff Creek has underscored the resource building potential of this zone on the company's Lawyers project in Northern British Columbia. "Infill drilling at the south end of Cliff Creek has generated significant, long intersections of gold-silver mineralization. This area is providing multiple new benefits that include more gold and silver than anticipated...
Seabridge Gold Inc. Nov. 11 reported that this year's 8,961-meter drill program at Iskut provides further evidence of a large porphyry copper-gold system lying below the drilling completed so far at this early staged exploration project in the heart of 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 Mountain gold-silver-copper mine. Seabridge...
Enduro Metals Corp. Nov. 11 reported that the resampling of core from a historic hole drilled at its Newmont Lake project in Northern British Columbia has revealed a much longer interval of gold-silver-copper mineralization in this hole targeting Northwest Zone than previously realized. Lying alongside the McLymont fault on Enduro's 648-square-kilometer (246 square miles) Newmont Lake project, NW Zone hosts 1.4 million metric tons of historical resource averaging 0.22% (6.8...
Benchmark Metals Inc. Nov. 4 reported the discovery of significant new mineralized zones that may develop into future satellite deposits along a 20-kilometer- (12.4 miles) long mineralized trend on its Lawyers gold-silver project in Northern British Columbia. "As we continue to systematically explore our highly prospective 140-square-kilometer (54 square miles) land position with comprehensive geological mapping, soil and rock sampling, ground and airborne geophysics, and...
Giga Metals Corp. Oct. 28 published a preliminary economic assessment that outlines a mine at its Turnagain project in Northern British Columbia that would produce an average of 33,215 metric tons of nickel and 1,962 metric tons of cobalt annually over a 37-year mine life. This PEA is based on 1.07 billion metric tons of measured and indicated resource averaging 0.22% (5.21 billion pounds) nickel and 0.13% (312.4 million lb) cobalt; plus 1.14 billion metric tons of inferred re...
Enduro Metals Corp. (formerly Crystal Lake Mining) Oct. 21 reported high-grade gold and copper in the first batch of results from its drilling along the McLymont fault on its 648-square-kilometer (246 square miles) Newmont Lake project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Much of this year's drilling targeted the northeast extension of NW Zone, an area along the McLymont fault that hosts 1.4 million metric tons of historical resource containing 6.79 million pounds of...
Ascot Resources Ltd. Oct. 8 reported that drilling has tapped high-grade silver mineralization at the aptly named Silver Hill, an exploration target about 2,000 meters northeast of the planned underground development at Big Missouri on the company's Premier gold-silver mine project in Northwest British Columbia. Big Missouri is one of four mine areas slated to deliver ore to the existing 1990s era mill at Premier, according to a feasibility study completed earlier this year fo...
Skeena Resources Ltd. Oct. 14 announced the completion of a 26,000-meter initial phase of drilling at Eskay Creek and the start of phase-two, a 45,000-meter drill campaign that will have up to 11 drill rigs readying surface mineable resources at the iconic Northern British Columbia gold-silver mine property for a prefeasibility study slated for completion next year. In addition to the two phases of resource upgrade and expansion drilling, Skeena is in the midst of a 17,000-met...
StrikePoint Gold Inc. Sept. 9 said its 2020 exploration programs in British Columbia's Golden Triangle are being challenged by COVID-19, weather, and a slow return of assay results. Despite these difficulties, however, crews have met their targets at the company's high-grade Willoughby gold-silver and Porter Silver projects near the mining town of Stewart, BC. "I am exceptionally proud of our team's productivity and success in meeting operational milestones and goals, despite...
Ascot Resources Ltd. Aug. 14 announced the discovery of high-grade gold mineralization at Day Zone, a new area about 300 meters west from the planned underground development at Big Missouri and roughly 5,000 meters north of the mill on Ascot's Premier property in northwestern British Columbia. A feasibility study completed for Ascot earlier this year envisions four mines – Silver Coin, Big Missouri, Red Mountain and Premier – providing ore to the existing 1990s era mill at... Full story
Skeena Resources Ltd. Sept. 9 reported additional consistent and high-grade gold and silver assay results from the 2020 phase 1 drill program at its Eskay Creek project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Six helicopter supported drill rigs are currently carrying out infill drilling in the 21A, 21B and 21C zones in order to upgrade resources ahead of a pre-feasibility study for establishing an open-pit mine at Eskay Creek. Highlights from the latest round of assay results...
Newcrest Mining Ltd. and Imperial Metals Corp. reported additional strong gold-copper intercepts from drilling at the East zone high-grade pod at the Red Chris Mine in northwestern British Columbia. Hole RC634, drilled in the East zone, cut 394 meters averaging 1.6 grams per metric ton gold and 0.86% copper starting at 650 meters down the hole. This intercept includes 166 meters of exceptional gold and silver for a bulk tonnage porphyry system. "Drilling results at Red Chris...
Benchmark Metals Inc. Aug. 24 said it plans to complete up to 100,000 meters of drilling this year and 200,000 meters during 2021 at its Lawyers gold-silver project in northern British Columbia. This massive expansion of its exploration at Lawyers follows the announcement that it would be raising C$48 million through a brokered private placement financing led by Sprott Capital Partners, which is more than twice the C$21 million original offering. "The keen interest and...
