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, focusing on the high‑grade A‑Zone vein system. Mon previously produced about 15,000 ounces of gold from 15,000 metric tons of ore between 1989 and 1997. The mobilization was completed on budget with no safety or environmental incidents.
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...
Silver47 Joins DOW's Critical Minerals Forum
Silver47 Exploration Corp. announced its membership in the Pentagon‑sponsored Critical Minerals Forum, a coalition aimed at securing domestic supply chains for defense‑critical minerals. The forum provides AI‑driven market intelligence and a project‑clearinghouse that links miners with investors and government agencies....
Selkirk Widens Minto Copper Footprint
Selkirk Copper Mines announced fresh drill results from four zones at the Minto copper‑gold‑silver mine, expanding both underground and near‑surface mineralization as its 50,000‑meter Phase 1 program nears completion. Assays revealed high‑grade copper intervals, including 2.45% Cu over 5.8 m at Minto...
Aben Explores Tungsten Potential at Justin
Aben Gold Corp. announced a new 2026 exploration program to evaluate high‑grade tungsten alongside gold at its Justin project in southeastern Yukon. Recent re‑analysis of 2014 drill holes revealed tungsten mineralization up to 0.39% WO₃, with concurrent gold grades above...
Critical Metals Adds Greenland Partner
Critical Metals Corp. announced it will acquire a majority stake in 60 Degree North Greenland ApS, a local construction and logistics firm, to bolster infrastructure around its Tanbreez rare‑earth project. The Tanbreez deposit, located near Qaqortoq, hosts 25.42 million tonnes of indicated and...
West Kitikmeot Secures ATCO Backing
West Kitikmeot Resources Corp. secured a C$10 million (US$7.4 million) investment from Calgary‑based ATCO Ltd., granting the infrastructure firm a 40 % equity stake. The funding will support the staged development of the Grays Bay Road and Port Project, an all‑season 230‑km road...
Gold Orogen Targets Yukon Follow-Up Work
Gold Orogen Resources outlined a 2026 exploration program that narrows work to five high‑priority drill and sampling targets across its Golden Culvert and WIN projects in Yukon’s southern Tombstone Gold Belt. Historical work has shown extensive gold mineralization, including surface...
Hook Lake Clears Key Step Toward Drilling
Manhattan Gold Corp. announced that its Hook Lake Project in Nunavut has cleared the Nunavut Impact Review Board’s regulatory screening, paving the way for an inaugural drill program slated to start in April. The district‑scale property hosts a high‑grade orogenic...
Scottie Selects Ore Sorting Tech for DSO Mine
Scottie Resource Corp. has chosen Tomra's X‑Ray Transmittance (XRT) ore‑sorting technology for its planned direct‑shipping ore (DSO) gold mine in British Columbia. The feasibility study, targeting mid‑2027 completion, projects an average annual production of 65,400 ounces of gold and an...
Gold Terra Hits High-Grade Gold at Yellorex
Gold Terra Resource Corp. announced high‑grade gold intercepts from the first seven holes of its 2026 winter drill program at the Yellorex zone on the Con Mine Option in Yellowknife. Intersections such as 8.2 g/t Au over 20.35 m and a 20.23 g/t...
Transitional Year for Contango Gold & Silver
Contango Ore Inc. entered a transitional 2026, with Manh Choh gold output falling to 40‑45 k ounces as the mine shifts from the North Pit to higher‑grade South Pit ore. Production in 2025 delivered 60,200 gold‑equivalent ounces, including 57,315 ounces of silver,...
Felix Expands High-Grade NW Array Antimony
Felix Gold Ltd. announced that its 2025 drill program has expanded the high‑grade antimony mineralization footprint at the NW Array target of the Treasure Creek project in Alaska. Recent assays include multiple intercepts above 10% antimony, such as a 4.92‑m...
White Gold Discovers Copper at Lost Pup
White Gold Corp. announced the discovery of high‑grade copper mineralization at the Lost Pup target on its Hen property in Yukon’s White Gold District. Bedrock chip samples returned copper grades up to 0.96 % and silver up to 15.1 g/t, indicating a potential...
Silver North Locks in Haldane Drilling
Silver North Resources has locked in a two‑year, fully funded diamond drilling contract with Boart Longyear for its Haldane silver project in Yukon, delivering 5,000‑7,000 metres of drilling each season. The 2026 campaign will prioritize expanding the Main Fault vein...
Latest Banyan Assays Refine Airstrip Gold
Banyan Gold Corp. announced new high‑grade gold intercepts from the Airstrip deposit at its AurMac project in Yukon, including 6.80 g/t Au over 9.3 m and 1.49 g/t Au over 8.8 m. The latest drilling refines the geometry of the intrusion‑related system and supports...
Seabridge Management Issued 2026 Assignments
Seabridge Gold’s board set 16 performance objectives for 2026, with a heavy focus on securing a partner for the KSM copper‑gold project. The 2025 report card was a D+, though the company met 88% of its targets, the missing KSM...
Higher-Grade Gold Drilled at Golden Summit
Freegold Ventures reported new high‑grade drill intercepts at its Golden Summit project in Alaska, confirming mineralized corridors within the Dolphin‑Cleary resource. Holes GS2539 and GS2542 returned up to 13.5 g/t Au over narrow intervals, while other holes averaged between 1.7 and...
Vital's Rare Earth Footprint Gets Bigger
Vital Metals released final assay results from its Nechalacho rare‑earth‑niobium project, confirming record‑high total rare‑earth oxide (TREO) grades across six newly identified targets. The standout 1029A target delivered 292,145 ppm TREO, the highest ever recorded at the site, with notable neodymium‑praseodymium...
North's Golden Geology Tarnished by Policy
The Fraser Institute’s 2025 mining survey shows that policy perceptions are eclipsing geological endowment in determining investment attractiveness across Alaska and Canada’s northern jurisdictions. Despite high mineral potential rankings, Alaska fell ten spots on the Investment Attractiveness Index, while British...
NWT Study Maps Critical Minerals Potential
The Northwest Territories government released the 2025 Mineral Potential Study, mapping critical mineral potential across the eastern Slave Geological Province. The assessment evaluated 1,721 mineral showings, covering 19 of Canada’s 34 critical minerals and identified 116 new occurrences. Officials say...
Critical Conversations with Dave Larimer
Dave Larimer, president of the Alaska Miners Association, argues that Alaska’s vast and geologically diverse mineral endowment is a strategic national asset for critical‑mineral supply chains. He stresses that beyond mining, building mid‑stream processing, reliable power, and transportation infrastructure is...
Avalon Strengthens Nechalacho Mine Team
Avalon Advanced Materials has rehired former COO Dave Marsh to lead a new preliminary economic assessment and refresh the feasibility study for its underground Nechalacho rare‑earths‑zirconium project in the Northwest Territories. The deposit contains 61.9 million metric tons of measured and...
Nova Geos Expand West Wing Gold Discovery
Nova Minerals announced a large gold‑copper anomaly at its West Wing target on the 513‑km² Estelle project in Alaska. Reconnaissance sampling in 2023‑2025 returned rock grades up to 15.5 g/t gold and copper concentrations near 7 %, defining a 1,500‑by‑800‑meter zone. The anomaly...
PEA Offers a First Look at Whistler Mine
U.S. GoldMining released a preliminary economic assessment for its Whistler project in Alaska, outlining a 14.6‑year mine that would produce 2.6 million gold ounces, 6.9 million silver ounces and 592 million pounds of copper. The base‑case assumes $3,200/oz gold, $37.50/oz silver and $4.50/lb...
White Gold Widens Saddle High-Grade Zone
White Gold Corp. announced new assay results from its 2025 diamond drill program at the Golden Saddle and Arc deposits in Yukon. The drilling pushed the high‑grade core at Golden Saddle 50 m westward at a depth of 350 m and intersected...
Larger Nechalacho REE System Identified
Vital Metals announced ultra‑high‑grade rare‑earth and niobium grab samples from six prospecting zones at its Nechalacho project, suggesting a mineralized system far larger than the current Tardiff deposit. The updated resource now totals 48.6 Mt measured‑indicated with 1.32% TREO and 0.25%...
Enabling the 5th Explorer Concept in the US
The U.S. has expanded its critical‑minerals list to 60, adding ten new elements in 2025, underscoring a widening supply gap. Because new mines take 10‑30 years to develop, the government is urging a systematic exploration strategy on mine‑enabling public lands....
Cambria Launches Premier Gold Mine Drilling
Cambria Gold Mines (formerly Ascot Resources) has launched a 27,000‑meter resource‑upgrade drill program at its Premier gold‑mine complex in British Columbia’s Golden Triangle. The initiative, funded by a C$175 million financing package, focuses on close‑spaced drilling of the Premier‑Northern Lights and...
Sitka Expands RC Gold Beyond 5M Ounces
Sitka Gold Corp. released an updated mineral resource estimate for its RC Gold project in Yukon, pushing the combined resource base above five million ounces of gold. The new estimate adds a maiden 2.25‑million‑ounce resource at the newly discovered Rhosgobel deposit...
Contango Drills Bonanza Gold at Lucky Shot
Contango Ore reported high‑grade underground drill results from its Lucky Shot gold project in Alaska, highlighted by a 1.16‑meter interval grading 294.8 g/t gold in the newly identified KM vein. The first 20 of a planned 60‑hole phase confirmed mineralization in...
White Cliff to Part Ways with Great Bear
White Cliff Minerals has signed a conditional binding agreement to sell its Great Bear copper‑gold‑silver‑uranium project in the Northwest Territories to Hydrocarbon Dynamics Ltd. for A$5.8 million. The transaction includes A$1.2 million cash and share consideration that gives White Cliff a 9.9% stake in...
Vizsla Renews Trust Lands Lease at Palmer
Vizsla Copper Corp. has secured a lease extension on Alaska Mental Health Trust lands at its Palmer project through August 2033. The high‑grade volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit hosts 4.77 Mt of indicated resources averaging 1.69% copper, 5.17% zinc, plus notable silver and...
Interior Revokes Dalton Corridor Withdrawals
The U.S. Interior Department issued Public Land Order 7966, revoking two federal withdrawals that covered roughly 2.1 million acres along the Dalton Highway corridor. The revocation removes the long‑standing restrictions, allowing Alaska to select the lands under its remaining statehood entitlement....
Yukon Metals Taps 250 G/T Gold at Carter
Yukon Metals Corp. announced a 2025 rock‑sampling program at its Carter Gulch property that returned a spectacular 250 g/t gold assay from a quartz‑vein float, with an average of 17.8 g/t across nine samples above 1 g/t. The high‑grade results prompted the company to...
Scottie Drills 4.55m of 141 G/T Gold
Scottie Resources Corp. announced a spectacular 4.55 m intercept grading 141.2 g/t gold from the Fifi Vein within the Blueberry Contact Zone, part of its historic Scottie Mine project in British Columbia’s Golden Triangle. The zone already hosts an inferred 3.6 Mt resource...
Li-FT Launches 2026 Drilling at BIG East
Li‑FT Power has kicked off a 6,770‑meter drilling campaign at its Yellowknife Lithium Project, concentrating on the BIG East spodumene pegmatite. The 2026 program includes 26 diamond holes, with 24 targeting the main dike corridor to depths of about 300 m. BIG East...
DOJ Filing Looms in Pebble Veto Fight
Northern Dynasty Minerals updated the court schedule for its Pebble mining lawsuit, noting that the Department of Justice must file a response brief by Feb. 17, 2026. The EPA’s 2023 Clean Water Act veto halted the project’s wetlands permit, prompting the...
Green Creek Silver Reserve Growth Continues
Hecla Mining’s Greens Creek operation in Southeast Alaska added 2.4 million ounces of silver reserves in 2025, bringing its proven and probable reserves to 106.1 million ounces—about half of the company’s total. The company’s overall silver reserves fell roughly 4 % due to...
Fireweed, RRDC Sign Exploration Accord
Fireweed Metals Corp. has signed an exploration and collaboration agreement with the Ross River Dena Council (RRDC) that obligates the company to obtain free, prior and informed consent before advancing its Mactung tungsten and Macpass zinc‑lead‑silver projects in eastern Yukon....
New Vision and Name for Ascot Resources
Ascot Resources announced it will rename itself Cambria Gold Mines Inc. as it rolls out a hub‑and‑spoke mining strategy that uses the refurbished 2,500‑ton‑per‑day Premier mill and feeds it primarily from the nearby Red Mountain deposit. The plan is funded...
Mountain Province Pauses Tuzo Phase 3
Mountain Province Diamonds announced a pause on the Tuzo Phase 3 development at its Gahcho Kué mine, citing weak diamond prices and rising costs. The joint‑venture partners are refocusing capital on higher‑grade feed from the NEX pipe to safeguard liquidity. The decision...
