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Benchmark Metals Inc. Oct.7 reported that its first 2019 hole at the Phoenix zone on its fully owned Lawyers project in northern British Columbia cut 2.87 meters averaging 46.9 grams per metric ton (1.5 ounces per metric ton) gold and 3,056 g/t (98.2 oz/t) silver. Phoenix is one of four mineralized areas – Cliff Creek, Dukes Ridge, Amethyst Gold Breccia (AGB) and Phoenix – that have been identified within a 3,000-meter radius in the central portion of the greater than 20-...
Skeena Resources Ltd. Sept. 25 said assay results from the initial phase of 2019 drilling at Eskay Creek indicate the potential to upgrade and expand the near surface resource at 21 A, one of three zones being tested this year. Over a 14-year span ending in 2008, Barrick Gold Corp. produced roughly 3.3 million ounces of gold and 160 million oz of silver at average grades of 45 grams per metric ton gold and 2,224 g/t silver from an underground mine at Eskay Creek. Skeena,...
Ascot Resources Ltd. Sept. 24 said it has completed its roughly 44,000 meters of resources expansion and upgrade drilling at the Big Missouri, Silver Coin and Premier deposit areas and has begun grassroots exploration across its wider land package near the town of Stewart, British Columbia. This discovery-focused program, recently approved by the Ascot board of directors, will include 3,000 to 5,000 meter of drilling testing four targets, as well as additional ground geophysic...
Giga Metals Corp. Sept. 19 announced expanded resources and improved grades at its Turnagain nickel project in northern British Columbia. Incorporating the 36 infill holes drilled in 2018, Turnagain now hosts 1.07 billion metric tons of measured and indicated resource averaging 0.22 percent (5.21 billion pounds) nickel and 0.13 percent (312.4 million lb) cobalt. This is a 24 percent increase in measured and indicated tonnage compared to the last resource calculated in conjunct...
Kutcho Copper Corp. Sept. 17 announced the start of permitting for its Kutcho copper-zinc project in northern British Columbia. The three deposits that make up the Kutcho project – Main, Esso and Sumac – host 17.26 million metric tons of measured and indicated resources averaging 1.85 percent (703.9 million pounds) copper, 2.72 percent (1.03 billion lb) zinc, 0.49 grams per metric ton (272,000 ounces) gold and 33.9 g/t (18.8 million oz) silver. These measured and ind...
Aben Resources Ltd. Sept. 18 reports that drilling continues to expand the North Boundary gold-silver-copper zone on the Forrest Kerr project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. The latest batch of assay results are from five holes drilled outboard of the main mineralized core at North Boundary. One hole drilled by Aben last year, FK18-10, cut 10 meters of 38.7 grams per metric ton (1.12 ounces per metric ton) gold from a depth of 114 meters, including one meter of 331 g/t...
Crystal Lake Mining Corp. Sept. 18 announced results from a hole that cut shallow high-grade gold mineralization at the NW Zone on the company's Newmont Lake property in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Situated about 30 kilometers (19 miles) northwest of Skeena Resources' Eskay Creek project and about the same distance southeast of Teck Resources and Newmont Goldcorp's Galore Creek project, Newmont Lake is in an area known for copper and gold deposits. NW Zone, which is...
Ascot Resources Ltd. Sept. 19 reported high-grade gold intercepts from drilling down-dip of historically mined areas at the past producing Premier Mine about 25 kilometers (16 miles) northwest of Stewart, British Columbia. An underground mine at Premier produced 2 million oz of gold and 45 million oz of silver from 1918 to 1952; and an open-pit operation in the 1990s produced another 260,000 oz of gold and 5.1 million oz of silver. The mill, assay lab, crusher, tailing storage...
Garibaldi Resources Corp. Sept. 12 reported assay results from the longest massive sulfide and mineralization intercepts so far at Nickel Mountain, a magmatic nickel- and copper-rich sulfide system about 11 miles (18 kilometers) southwest of the past producing Eskay Creek Mine in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Garibaldi first tapped the nickel- and copper-rich E&L intrusion at Nickel Mountain in 2017. This hole, EL-17-14, cut 16.75 meters averaging 8.3 percent nickel, 4.2...
Skeena Resources Ltd. Sept. 9 announced that infill drilling at its Eskay Creek project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle has discovered a previously unidentified vent carrying high-grade gold and silver. According to a resource calculated in February, Eskay Creek hosts 12.71 million metric tons of surface mineable indicated resource averaging 4.5 grams per metric ton (1.8 million ounces) gold and 117 g/t (47.79 million oz) silver; and 13.57 metric tons of surface...
Ascot Resources Ltd. Sept. 5 reported that initial results from this year's drilling at Silver Coin provide further evidence that this recently acquired project will be a significant contributor to the company's plans to resume operations at the Premier Mine near Stewart, British Columbia. Acquired by Ascot last October, Silver Coin is part of a 100-square-kilometer (39 square miles) of gold-silver properties the company has accumulated around Stewart. This land package also...
Crystal Lake Mining Corp. Sept. 4 reported rich copper mineralization in core and from outcrop freshly exposed from the rapid retreat of snow and ice on its Newmont Lake project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Situated about 30 kilometers (19 miles) northwest of Skeena Resources' Eskay Creek project and about the same distance southeast of Teck Resources and Newmont Goldcorp's Galore Creek project, Newmont Lake is in an area known for copper and gold deposits. NW Zone,...
Seabridge Gold Inc. Aug. 27 announced the start of a 4,000-meter drill program designed to follow-up on high-grade gold identified during 2018 geotechnical drilling within the proposed Sulphurets pit at the company's KSM project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. The four main deposits at KSM – Kerr, Sulphurets, Mitchell and Iron Cap –host 2.98 billion metric tons of measured and indicated resources averaging 0.52 grams per metric ton (49.7 million ounces) gold, 0.21 per...
Aben Resources Ltd. Aug. 20 provided updates on an expanded drill program at its Forrest Kerr gold project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle and Justin gold project in southeastern Yukon. At Forrest Kerr, Aben is encouraged by initial results from a more than 5,000-meter initial phase of drilling and has budgeted additional funds to extend the drilling into fall. "We are off to a great start for the 2019 drill season," said Aben Resources President and CEO Jim Pettit. "We...
Garibaldi Resources Inc. Aug. 9 reported that drills have tapped the widest zone of nickel- and copper-rich massive sulfide ever encountered at its Nickel Mountain project about 18 kilometers (11 miles) southwest of the historic Eskay Creek Mine in the heart of British Columbia's Golden Triangle. "This season's drill program is our best start yet at Nickel Mountain at a time when nickel prices are hitting new multi-year highs," said Garibaldi Resources President and CEO Steve...
GT Gold Corp. Aug. 12 announced that Paul Harbidge, former senior vice president of exploration for Goldcorp Inc., will be taking over as the president and CEO of GT Gold on Sept. 3. Harbidge's former company merged with Newmont in April and in May Newmont Goldcorp invested C$17.6 million to acquire a 9.9 percent stake in GT Gold shares. Funds from this investment are being used to expand Saddle North, a large porphyry gold-copper target on the Tatogga property in British...
StrikePoint Gold Inc. Aug. 13 announced the start of a second phase of drilling a Willoughby, a gold-silver project about seven kilometers (four miles) east of Ascot Resources Ltd.'s Red Mountain Mine project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. StrikePoint acquired Willoughby earlier this year and began a phase 1 drill program on the property in July. This initial phase of drilling targeted the North zone, one of two zones drilled at Willoughby in the 1990s. Gold-silver...
Skeena Resources Ltd. Aug. 7 announced the start of a roughly 15,000-meters surface drill program at its Eskay Creek gold-silver project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. From 1994 to 2008, Barrick Gold Corp. operated an underground mine at Eskay Creek that produced roughly 3.3 million ounces of gold and 160 million oz of silver at average grades of 45 grams per metric ton gold and 2,224 g/t silver, which at the time made it the world's highest-grade gold mine and fifth-l...
Dolly Varden Silver Corp. Aug. 7 reported that it continues to cut very high-grade silver at the Chance discovery on the company's namesake property in northwestern British Columbia. The Dolly Varden property hosts four historic gold mines – Torbrit, Dolly Varden, Wolf and North Star – that date back to the early 20th century. Drilling by Dolly Varden has outlined deposits associated with these mines that host 3.42 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 299.8 gra...
Giga Metals Corp. July 29 reported that Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) has agreed to be part of a consortium of government agencies and industry partners, including Giga Metals, that have agreed to fund research into the sequestration of carbon dioxide (CO2) into silicate mine residue, including ultramafic residue from mineral deposits such as those being advanced at Giga Metals' Turnagain nickel-cobalt deposit in northern British Columbia. "We are proud to support this...
StrikePoint Gold Inc. July 22 announced that it has raised C$2 million, providing funds to begin exploring its newly acquired Willoughby property in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Located roughly 30 kilometers (19 miles) east of Stewart, Willoughby is an intrusion related gold-silver exploration project with similarities to Ascot Resources Ltd.'s Red Mountain Mine project about seven kilometers (four miles) to the west. Drilling from 1989 through 1995 tapped high-grade...
Ascot Resources Ltd. July 17 reported another set of results from the roughly 20,000 meters of drilling carried out this year at the Big Missouri Ridge area of its Premier gold project near Stewart in northwestern British Columbia. Ascot's landholdings in the Stewart area include Premier, a 100-square-kilometer (39 square miles) land package that hosts the past producing Premier and Big Missouri mines; Silver Coin, an adjacent property that also provided ore to the mill at...
Brixton Metals Corp. July 15 reported long sections of copper-gold-silver mineralization in drill hole THN19-150, which targeted deep porphyry mineralization in the Oban zone on the company's Thorn property in northwestern British Columbia. This hole, drilled to a depth of 829 meters, extended the polymetallic mineralization at Oban 281 meters deeper than previous drilling. From a depth of 97 meters, THN19-150 cut 554.7 meters averaging 0.57 grams per metric ton gold, 0.24...
GT Gold Corp. July 17 reported that the first holes of its 10,000-meter initial phase of drilling on its Tatogga property in northwestern British Columbia have successfully expand the porphyry copper-gold mineralization at the Saddle North discovery area. "Our phase one program continues to bring into clearer focus the potentially significant economics of our Saddle North discovery," said GT Gold Vice President of Exploration Charles Greig Last year's discovery program at...
Pretium Resources Inc. July 9 said initial observations from a third hole drilled as part of a 2019 deep underground exploration program continue to indicate that the style of high-grade gold mineralization currently being mined at its Brucejack underground operation in northwestern British Columbia extends below the Valley of the Kings. In June, the company reported that two long holes drilled from the underground workings at Brucejack confirmed the presence of...
