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Kutcho Copper Corp. March 4 reported an updated and expanded mineral resource estimate that will serve as the basis for an upcoming feasibility study on the company's Kutcho copper-zinc project located in northern British Columbia. "We are pleased to announce an updated mineral resource estimate for the Kutcho project that incorporates the significant work and new drilling conducted by Kutcho Copper during our first full year of ownership," said Kutcho Copper President and...
Skeena Resources Ltd. Feb. 28 reported an updated open-pit resource for its Eskay Creek gold-silver project in northern British Columbia. Skeena cut a deal with Barrick Gold Corp. late in 2017 to acquire the major's interest in Eskay Creek and during 2018 the junior carried out an initial phase of expansion and infill drilling targeting three zones – 21A, 21C and 22 – at this historic gold-silver mine property. The 46 holes Skeena Resources drilled from the surface, com...
Kutcho Copper Corp. Jan. 20 announced that it has entered into an exploration agreement with Kaska Nation, represented by Dease River First Nation, relating to Kutcho, a high-grade copper-zinc development project roughly 100 kilometers (60 miles) east of Dease Lake in northern British Columbia. This agreement outlines a framework under which Kutcho Copper and Kaska agree to work together in a spirit of partnership and cooperation to build a positive and mutually beneficial...
Coeur Mining Inc. Feb. 20 announced that it has successfully grown its companywide reserve base for the fourth consecutive year, largely driven by the initial reserve declaration for its Silvertip Mine in northern British Columbia. Going into 2019, Coeur's five mines – Silvertip, Kensington (Alaska), Palmarejo (Mexico), Rochester (Nevada) and Wharf (South Dakota) – had 289.5 million metric tons of proven and probable reserves averaging 0.01 ounces per ton (2.8 million ounces)...
GT Gold Corp. Feb. 12 reported the final batch of results from a drill program that extended the high-grade gold-silver system at Saddle South, one of two deposits the company is delineating on its Tatogga property in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. This drilling has encountered high-grade gold intercepts within wider mineralized intervals both to the west and east of the Saddle South discovery made in 2017. Highlights from holes drilled west of Saddle South include: • H...
Benchmark Metals Inc. Feb. 8 reported high-grade gold-silver intercepts from 2018 drilling at the Dukes Ridge zone on the company's Lawyers project in the Golden Triangle region of British Columbia. Located about 45 kilometers (28 miles) northwest of the Kemess copper-gold mine project, Lawyers is home to a small underground mine that produced 171,200 ounces of gold and 3.6 million oz of silver over a four-year period beginning in 1989. The historical mining, carried out by Ch...
IDM Mining Ltd. Jan. 6 reported high-grade gold-silver was encountered during the 2018 trenching of the Randell Vein in the Lost Valley area of its Red Mountain property near Stewart, British Columbia. Situated about 4,000 meters south of the underground gold-silver resource at Red Mountain, the mineralization encountered at Lost Valley is similar in structure and geochemistry to the ore being mined at the Pogo underground gold mine in Alaska. Since 2014, 713 samples,...
Giga Metals Corp. Jan. 30 reported results from 38 holes drilled last year at the company's Turnagain nickel-cobalt project in northern British Columbia. A resource calculated in conjunction with a preliminary economic assessment prepared for Turnagain in 2011 outlines 865 million metric tons of measured and indicated resources at Turnagain averaging 0.21 percent (4 billion pounds) nickel and 0.013 percent (250 million lb) cobalt; plus 976 million metric tons of inferred resou...
IDM Mining Ltd. Jan. 22 reported the newly discovered Lacasse zone at Red Mountain delivered one of the highest grade gold-silver intercepts at Red Mountain, a near development mine project about 15 kilometers (nine miles) east of Stewart, British Columbia. The Lacasse discovery was among the results from the final 40 underground core holes IDM received from the 2018 drill program, which targeted multiple zones for resource expansion, conversion and exploration last year at...
StrikePoint Gold Inc. Jan. 16 announced that it has signed a letter of intent to acquire Willoughby, a gold-silver exploration project about 30 kilometers (19 miles) east of Stewart, from Sojourn Exploration Inc. Willoughby is an intrusion related gold-silver project with similarities to IDM Mining Ltd.'s Red Mountain Mine project about seven kilometers (four miles) to the west. Red Mountain, which recently received regulatory approvals to develop an underground mine, hosts...
Skeena Resources Ltd. Jan. 15 reported additional high-grade gold-silver intercepts from the recently completed drill program at the Eskay Creek project in the Golden Triangle of northwestern British Columbia. Skeena cut a deal with Barrick Gold Corp. late in 2017 to acquire the major's interest in Eskay Creek and during 2018 the junior carried out an initial phase of expansion and infill drilling targeting three zones – 21A, 21C and 22 – at this historic gold-silver mine pro...
Dolly Varden Silver Corp. Jan. 14 reported the completion of a very successful field program at its namesake property in northwestern British Columbia, a program that included 29,108 meters of core drilling in 85 holes. The 2018 drilling program was designed to focus on resource delineation and verification, particularly in new discovery areas identified in 2017. In 2015, Dolly Varden published a maiden indicated resource of 3.07 million metric tons averaging 321.6 grams per...
StrikePoint Gold Inc. Jan. 9 reported that a 25-hole drill program at Porter has cut high-grade silver mineralization within and beyond the historical resource area on this past producing property just outside of Stewart, British Columbia. Located on Mount Rainey, which overlooks Stewart from the south, the Porter property hosts historic silver mines that date back to the dawn of the 20th Century. The majority of the past production on Porter comes from the Prosperity-Porter...
Pretium Resources Inc. Jan. 9 reported that it produced 376,012 ounces of gold at it Brucejack Mine during 2018, the first full calendar year of full production at this high-grade gold operation in northwestern British Columbia. At roughly 1,030 oz of gold per day, the annual production was about 95 percent of Pretium's 387,000-oz guidance for the full year. Commercial production commenced at the Brucejack Mine in July 2017, with ramp-up continuing into the first half of 2018...
GT Gold Corp. Jan. 9 reported the best hole drilled so far at the Saddle North porphyry gold-copper discovery on the company's Tatogga property in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. TTD109, the deepest hole drilled so far at Saddle North, cut 1,149.7 meters averaging 0.62 grams per metric ton gold, 0.36 percent copper and 1.17 g/t silver starting from a depth of 11.33 meters. This includes 342.5 meters of 1.28 g/t gold, 0.57 percent copper and 2.3 g/t silver from a depth of...
Seabridge Gold Inc. Dec. 18 said it has encountered the hallmarks of a large copper-gold porphyry system at its Iskut project in northwestern British Columbia. "We acquired Iskut in 2016 because it showed clear evidence of a large porphyry system similar in age and geology to our KSM project 30 kilometers (19 miles) to the east," said Seabridge Gold Chairman and CEO Rudi Fronk. Quartz Rise was the first porphyry target at Iskut tested by Seabridge. Drilling carried out in...
Pretium Resources Inc. Dec. 14 said it has received the provincial permits needed to increase the amount of ore fed into the mill at its Brucejack gold mine in northern British Columbia by roughly 40 percent. The amended permits issued by two B.C. regulatory agencies – Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources; and Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy – allows Pretium to increase the Brucejack Mine production rate to 1.387 million metric tons per yea...
Brixton Metals Corp. Dec. 19 announced that it has raised C$2.78 million for further exploration of Atlin Goldfields project in the Golden Triangle region of northwest British Columbia. The private placement financing involved the issuance of 4.9 million units at C15 cents each, with one unit consisting of a Brixton Metals share and one warrant, and 12 million flow-through shares at C17 each. Each warrant issue entitles the holder to acquire an additional Brixton share at...
Amarc Resources Ltd. Dec. 11 said its inaugural exploration program at Joy has confirmed several high-potential porphyry gold-copper drill targets on this 464-square-kilometer property in north-central British Columbia. This year's C$2.5 million exploration program at Joy was funded by Hudbay Minerals Inc., which has partnered with Amarc to explore and develop the Joy Project. Hudbay, which produces precious and base metals from operations in Canada and Peru, also paid C$1.15...
Sojourn Exploration Inc. Dec. 12 reported results from this year's sampling at Todd Creek, a porphyry copper-gold property about 40 kilometers (25 miles) southeast of Seabridge Gold Inc.'s enormous KSM project. A time domain induced polarization survey carried out this year at Todd Creek showed a significant chargeability anomaly underlies the Yellow Bowl zone, a roughly 3,000-meter-long corridor of strongly altered and variably copper-gold mineralized intermediate volcanic ro...
Dolly Varden Silver Corp. Dec. 6 reported results from 12 additional holes drilled this year at the Dolly Varden property in northwestern British Columbia. In 2015, Dolly Varden published a maiden indicated resource of 3.07 million metric tons averaging 321.6 grams per metric ton (31.8 million ounces) silver in four zones – Dolly Varden, North Star, Torbrit and Wolf. These zones are associated with historical high-grade silver mines that date back to the dawn of the 20th C...
Ethos Gold Corp. Dec. 6 reported results from the 2018 sampling program at Pine Pass, one of three northeastern British Columbia vanadium properties the company optioned earlier this year. Pine Pass project is located within a 2,508-hectare (6,197 acres) claim block 104 kilometers (64 miles) by paved highway from MacKenzie, British Columbia. With Highway 97 passing through the southern portion of the claims, access to this vanadium project is excellent. Power, gas and rail...
Skeena Resources Ltd. Dec. 5 reported gold-silver intercepts from another eight holes drilled at the Eskay Creek project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Skeena cut a deal with Barrick Gold Corp. late in 2017 to acquire the major's interest in Eskay Creek. This year the junior carried out an initial phase of expansion and infill drilling targeting three zones – 21A, 21C and 22. The latest batch of results are from holes testing the 21C Zone, highlights include: • 10....
IDM Mining Ltd. Nov. 27 reported that high-grade gold and silver results from trenching and sampling have expanded two new zones – Lost Valley and Cambria – on the company's Red Mountain gold project in the Golden Triangle of northwestern British Columbia. Both zones are in areas of the property with better exposure due to recent glacial retreat. Lost Valley is a discovery area about 4,000 meters south of the resource area at Red Mountain, where IDM Mining is in the final stag...
GT Gold Corp. Nov. 20 said assay results for the latest two holes drilled at Saddle North is beginning to show a very large porphyry system at the copper-gold-silver discovery on the company's Tatogga property in British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Hole TTD098, a southeast step-out, cut 685 meters averaging 0.4 grams per metric ton gold, 0.26 percent copper and 1.03 g/t silver from a depth of 473 meters. This long intercept included 280.84 meters of 0.65 g/t gold, 0.38...
