Goose Beats Targets as Ramp-Up Continues
B2Gold reported first‑quarter production at its Goose mine above expectations, delivering 42,876 ounces of gold and $219.5 million in revenue thanks to higher grades and 93.5% recoveries that offset lower mill throughput. Cash operating costs came in at $1,653 per ounce, below the company’s own forecasts, while all‑in sustaining costs were $2,806 per ounce. A fire in April forced a revision of the second‑quarter outlook to 18,000‑20,000 ounces, prompting a $7 million repair plan and a $11 million Phase‑1 crusher upgrade. The company also announced founder‑CEO Clive Johnson’s retirement, with CFO Mike Cinnamond set to take the helm.
White Gold Spins Out W2 Critical Minerals
White Gold Corp. is spinning out six non‑gold Yukon properties into a new public vehicle, W2 Critical Minerals Corp., to focus on copper and other critical mineral targets. Shareholders will receive one W2 share for every five White Gold shares,...
Tectonic Launches 2026 Program at Flat
Tectonic Metals has kicked off a 40,000‑meter drill campaign at its Flat gold project in Southwest Alaska, aiming to expand the mineralized footprint around Chicken Mountain and define an inaugural resource. The 2025 season delivered more than 18,000 m of drilling,...
Snowline Launches Largest Season Ever
Snowline Gold Corp announced the start of its largest field season at the Rogue project in eastern Yukon, launching a 2026 program that pushes the Valley deposit toward a prefeasibility study and early permitting. The Valley deposit contains 7.94 million ounces...
Hecla Investigates Greens Creek Upgrades
Hecla Mining is evaluating two low‑capital projects at its Greens Creek mine: a tailings reprocessing program with EnviroGold that could unlock roughly $6.8 billion in buried metals, and a pyrite‑concentrate circuit designed to capture additional gold and silver. In Q1, Greens...
Sitka Recovers Gold, Tungsten at Rhosgobel
Sitka Gold Corp. announced that metallurgical testing on the Rhosgobel deposit of its RC Gold project in Yukon delivered an average gold recovery of 94.3% and an 84.7% recovery for tungsten. The deposit sits within a 447‑square‑kilometer district hosting 1.01 g/t...
Cascadia Launches Largest Carmacks Program
Cascadia Minerals has kicked off a 15,000‑meter diamond drill campaign at its Carmacks copper‑gold project in central Yukon, the largest exploration effort on the property since 2007. The 2026 program will focus on expanding resources in Zones 147, 2000S and...
Contango Enhances Lucky Shot Mine Value
Contango Silver & Gold Inc. announced it will acquire 100% ownership of the historic Lucky Shot mine in Alaska for $16.1 million, extinguishing a 2% NSR royalty. The company’s phase‑one underground drilling has intersected multiple high‑grade veins, including a bonanza‑grade 295 g/t intercept...
AIDEA Advances Ambler Road Field Program
AIDEA has reinstated permits and kicked off a 2026 field program to gather geotechnical, hydrological, permafrost and fish‑habitat data along the proposed 211‑mile Ambler Road corridor. Crews from the Alaska Department of Fish & Game, HDR Engineering and Alaska Native‑owned...
Dalaroo Gains Full Control at Blue Lagoon
Dalaroo Metals Ltd. has completed the acquisition of the core claims at the Blue Lagoon project in southwest Greenland, giving it 100% control of the rare‑earth‑niobium‑zirconium district. The company secured the MEL 2022‑07 licence, converting it from an application to a...
Fort Knox Gold Production Rebounds in Q1
Kinross Gold reported Fort Knox produced 102,372 ounces of gold in Q1, a 43% increase from the previous quarter but 9% below the same period in 2025. The surge stems from processing higher‑grade ore from the Manh Choh satellite mine, raising...
Yukon Metals Secures Sumo Option
Yukon Metals Corp. has secured an option to acquire the 1,875‑hectare Sumo copper‑gold property adjacent to its Birch project. The deal requires $289,000 cash, 1.5 million shares and $2.64 million of work expenditures by 2031, with a 2.5% NSR royalty retained by...
The US Mint Is Producing Tainted Coins
The U.S. Mint’s gold‑coin program generates roughly $3.5 billion in annual sales, driven by collectors and investors. A Reagan‑era statute mandates that the gold used be sourced from natural deposits within the United States. Investigations reveal that up to 20% of...
Fortune Targets Federal Funding for NICO
Fortune Minerals is courting Canadian and U.S. federal funds to develop the NICO deposit in the Northwest Territories, a site that holds 12% of global bismuth reserves and significant cobalt, copper, and gold. The company received C$17 million (US$12.2 million) for feasibility...
Singapore Company Seeks Eagle Gold Mine
Singapore‑based Boroo Pte. Ltd. has entered an exclusivity agreement with PwC to potentially purchase the Eagle Gold Mine in Yukon, which has been under court‑appointed receivership since a 2024 heap‑leach pad collapse. The deal gives Boroo time for due diligence...
Graphite Creek Permitting Remains on Track
Graphite One Inc. says its Graphite Creek mine in Alaska remains on track for a September 29, 2026 permitting decision under the federal FAST‑41 framework. The dashboard shows the project "in progress" and on schedule, keeping the timeline to start...
Ontario, Yukon Team up on Nuclear Energy
Ontario and Yukon have signed a partnership to explore small modular reactor (SMR) deployment for Yukon’s strained electricity system. The agreement leverages Ontario’s nuclear operating experience to assess technical, regulatory, and financing aspects of SMRs and off‑grid microreactors. Yukon’s 152 MW...
Red Dog Zinc Output Fades in Transition
Teck Resources announced a C$200 million (US$145 million) investment to extend the life of its Red Dog zinc mine in Alaska as first‑quarter output fell 9% to 106,200 metric tons and the average zinc grade slipped 11% to 12.1%. The company’s revised three‑year...
Pogo Gold Production Rebounds During Q1
Northern Star Resources reported that its Pogo underground mine in Alaska produced 65,672 ounces of gold in Q1 2026, up from 52,832 ounces the prior quarter. All‑in sustaining costs dropped to $1,529 per ounce, down from $1,871. The average ore grade...
Cambria Drills Bonanza Gold at Premier
Cambria Gold Mines released initial assay results from a 27,000‑meter infill drill program at the Premier Gold Mine in British Columbia. Surface drilling in the 602 Zone returned a 0.5‑meter bonanza interval grading 552 g/t gold, while underground work in the...
Valhalla Signs Transformative Deal with Teck
Valhalla Metals has acquired 100% of the Smucker copper‑zinc‑lead‑silver deposit in Alaska’s Ambler Mining District, giving Teck Resources a 35% equity stake in the junior. The transaction includes 44.81 million Valhalla shares and a 2% net smelter royalty for Teck, plus...
B2Gold, Agnico Forge Nunavut Alliance
B2Gold announced a non‑exclusive collaboration with Agnico Eagle to exchange Arctic mining expertise across their Nunavut assets, while simultaneously selling its 70 % stake in the Finnish Fingold joint venture for $325 million in cash. The proceeds will bolster B2Gold’s balance sheet,...
Seabridge Unveils First Snip North Resource
Seabridge Gold announced a maiden inferred resource at the Snip North deposit on its Iskut project in British Columbia’s Golden Triangle. The estimate contains 9.2 million ounces of gold, 28.3 million ounces of silver and 923 million pounds of copper, split almost evenly...
Sitka Confirms Tungsten at Rhosgobel
Sitka Gold Corp. announced that additional assaying of 5,500 samples from 33 drill holes at its Rhosgobel deposit confirmed extensive tungsten mineralization. The deposit, part of the 2.25‑million‑ounce inferred gold resource at the RC Gold project in Yukon’s Tombstone Gold...
Kudz Ze Kayah Moves Closer to Mine Permit
BMC Minerals announced it has secured a positive Decision Document for its ABM Mine at the Kudz Ze Kayah project in Yukon, clearing a key permitting hurdle. The ABM deposit contains 18.3 million metric tons of indicated resources rich in zinc, lead, copper,...
Pebble Plaintiffs Rebut DOJ Veto Brief
Northern Dynasty Minerals filed a reply brief in Alaska federal court challenging the EPA’s 2023 Pebble mine veto. The brief argues the agency’s decision conflicts with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Final Environmental Impact Statement, relies on a flawed...
Eagle Water Treatment Resumes for Spring
The Yukon government announced on April 13 that treated‑water discharge will resume at the Eagle Gold Mine, allowing the site to build storage capacity ahead of the spring melt. Since the 2024 heap‑leach pad failure, the mine, under PwC receivership,...
New Amalga PEA Outlines Juneau Gold Mine
Grande Portage Resources released its first preliminary economic assessment for the New Amalga gold project near Juneau, outlining a seven‑year underground mine with offsite processing. The PEA projects 1.05 million ounces of gold over life‑of‑mine, with after‑tax NPV of $721 million at...
Ucore Upgrades Bokan Mountain Resource
Ucore Rare Metals released an upgraded resource estimate for the Dotson Ridge deposit at its Bokan Mountain project in Southeast Alaska, revealing a measured resource of 801,600 t containing 4.83 million t of total rare‑earth oxides (TREO) at an average 0.6% grade. The...
Gold Terra Extends Yellorex at Depth
Gold Terra Resource Corp. announced assay results from five new drill holes at its Yellorex zone, part of the Campbell Shear on the Con Mine Option property in the Northwest Territories. The intercepts confirm high‑grade gold mineralization down to roughly...
Pogo at 20: Looks Ahead to Golden Future
Pogo mine marked its 20th anniversary after producing more than 5.4 million ounces of gold since 2006, with 2025 output around 270,000 ounces. Owned by Northern Star Resources, the operation has extended its life beyond the original ten‑year plan through increased...
Fuerte Files PEA for Coffee Gold Mine
Fuerte Metals filed a 2026 Preliminary Economic Assessment for its Coffee gold mine in Yukon, estimating initial capital of C$998.2 million (≈US$718 million) and a two‑year payback. The updated technical report shows an after‑tax NPV of C$3 billion (≈US$2.2 billion) and a 43.5% IRR...
Tests Return Strong Danver Copper Recovery
White Cliff Minerals announced that metallurgical test work on the Danvers zone of its Rae copper project in Nunavut recovered more than 90% of copper in all sample blends, peaking at 95.4%, and produced a high‑grade concentrate of about 40%...
Gold Terra Extends Walsh Lake North
Gold Terra Resource Corp. completed a 2026 winter drill campaign at its Walsh Lake target, sinking 15 holes and 4,905 m of core. The program confirmed a northward extension of the gold corridor by roughly 150 m and delivered high‑grade intercepts, notably a 5.7 m...
Gladiator Prepares 2026 Copper Campaign
Gladiator Metals Corp. announced the start of its 2026 drilling campaign at the Whitehorse Copper project in Yukon, beginning with a 35,000‑meter program focused on the Cowley and Cub East targets. The fully funded, $15 million budget is supported by a...
Tech to Accelerate Assay Turnaround in BC
Paragon Advanced Labs has linked Chrysos Corp.’s PhotonAssay with Veracio’s whole‑rock scanner at a new British Columbia hub, creating a rapid, non‑destructive assay workflow. PhotonAssay can quantify gold, silver and copper in about two minutes, while the Veracio scanner adds...
Banyan Sharpens Powerline Economics
Banyan Gold Corp. announced new high‑grade drill intercepts from the 2025 program at its Powerline deposit, part of the 303‑km² AurMac project in Yukon. The results focus on converting previously modelled waste into ore, with several holes returning up to...
PolarX Expands High-Grade Copper in Alaska
PolarX Ltd. reported a series of high‑grade copper intercepts at its Caribou Dome deposit in Alaska, including a 2.5‑metre zone grading 10.82% copper. The 2025 drilling program added over 2,100 m of holes that extended mineralization to deeper levels and confirmed...
Alaska Placer Mining 101 Guidebook Debuts
The Placer Mining Resource Network (PMRN) launched the Alaska Placer Mining 101 Guidebook, a 72‑page resource aimed at helping placer gold miners navigate planning, design, and permitting in Alaska. Developed with input from miners and industry groups, the guide covers...
First Star River Holes Confirm System
Yukon Metals reported its inaugural 2025 drill program at the Star River project in southern Yukon, confirming a district‑scale polymetallic vein system of gold, silver, lead and zinc along a 1‑kilometre structural corridor. The F2 zone delivered the strongest intercepts,...
Mon Mine Restart Clears Another Hurdle
Sixty North Gold Mining has completed the winter‑road delivery of all equipment needed to restart the Mon gold mine in the Northwest Territories. The company aims to begin mill construction this summer and resume production at a permitted 100‑ton‑per‑day capacity,...
Vizsla Budgets $13.7M for Palmer Program
Vizsla Copper Corp. has secured a $13.7 million (≈ $14 million USD) budget for a 10,000‑meter drill campaign and technical studies at its Palmer VMS project in Southeast Alaska. The project hosts 4.77 million metric tons of indicated resources rich in copper, zinc, silver,...
Water Everywhere but Not a Drop to Drink
The Persian Gulf oil embargo has driven global oil prices to record highs, pushing diesel to roughly $5.50 per gallon and inflating a full tanker truckload to about $50,000. This surge threatens the cost structure of small Alaskan placer‑gold miners,...
Fairbanks Antimony Coming Back to Life
Antimony, a heat‑resistant and hardening element, has re‑emerged as a U.S. critical mineral, prompting a fresh look at Alaska’s historic deposits. During World War I the Fairbanks district supplied up to 1,458 tons of crude antimony ore, but production collapsed after the...
Drills Tap Golden Summit Growth Targets
Freegold Ventures reported new drill results from its Golden Summit project in Alaska, highlighting a 216.4‑meter interval averaging 2.44 g/t gold, including a 1.8‑meter zone at 96.3 g/t within the Cleary Hill zone. Additional high‑grade hits were recorded in the newly explored...
Fuerte Launches Coffee Drill Program
Fuerte Metals has launched a 40,000‑meter drilling program at its Coffee Gold project in Yukon, aiming to upgrade inferred resources to indicated status ahead of a feasibility study due in late 2026. The deposit, acquired from Newmont, already hosts 80 Mt...
A Massive Boost in KSM Metal Resources
Seabridge Gold announced a refreshed resource estimate for its KSM project in British Columbia, incorporating higher long‑term metal price assumptions. The update adds 19.7 million ounces of gold, 5.7 billion pounds of copper, 151.5 million ounces of silver and 233 million pounds of molybdenum,...
B2Gold Builds Back River Beyond Goose
B2Gold reported 2025 drilling results from its Back River district in Nunavut, highlighting high‑grade intercepts at the Llama, Nuvuyak and Wing targets. Llama drilling returned up to 13.7 m averaging 41.95 g/t Au and other intervals above 13 g/t, supporting a resource upgrade...
Nova Delivers Antimony Mining Equipment
Nova Minerals Ltd. is moving a massive suite of antimony mining and sorting equipment to its Estelle project via a 100‑mile winter ice road in Southcentral Alaska. Unusually cold temperatures allowed crews to construct five‑foot‑thick ice bridges capable of handling...
Diavik Mine Reaches Final Production
Rio Tinto announced on March 26 that the Diavik diamond mine in the Northwest Territories has completed its final production, ending 23 years of operation. The mine extracted more than 150 million carats and generated roughly C$7 billion ($5 billion) in contracts, half of...