Mining News: Alaska faces tough road on global stage 11/21/2010
CNBC report ranks state last in terms of cost of doing business and as having the worst transportation system in the United States
Alaska's mining industry is entering the final lap for what has turned out to be a more robust than expected year for exploration, development and production. Strong worldwide demand for mined product...

2010 Mining Explorers: Niblack Mineral Development Inc. 10/31/2010
NIB: TSX-V President and CEO: John Williamson Chairman: John Robins Vice President, Exploration: Peter Kleespies The principle asset of Niblack Mineral Development Inc. (formerly CBR Gold Corp) is t...

2010 Mining Explorers: Junior taps mine maker at Niblack 10/31/2010
Heatherdale traces long trends of high-grade VMS mineralization in SE Alaska
Heatherdale Resources Ltd., a subsidiary of Hunter Dickinson Inc., (see Hunter Dickinson Inc.) is living up to its pledge to aggressively explore the Niblack copper-gold-silver-zinc project on Prince...

2010 Mining Explorers: Explorers trek to Last Frontier 10/31/2010
Geologists seek next world-class deposit in rugged, under-explored state
The Last Frontier, as Alaska has long been labeled, is as applicable a moniker today as it was to prospectors who ventured to the territory at the end of the 19th century. Alaska is considered one of...

Mining News:Explorer expands metal-rich VMS at Niblack 08/29/2010
Heatherdale traces long sections of continuous mineralization through Lookout Mountain; new resource, geological model on the way
Heatherdale Resources Ltd., a subsidiary of Hunter Dickinson Inc., is living up to its pledge to aggressively explore the Niblack copper-gold-silver-zinc project on Prince of Wales Island in South...

AEA board OKs Haida Energy hydro loan 08/22/2010
The Alaska Energy Authority board of directors has approved a $9 million power project fund loan to Haida Energy Inc. to help finance a new 5 megawatt hydroelectric project at Reynolds Creek on Prince...

Mining News: Kensington joins ranks of big producers 07/25/2010
New mine will boost Southeast Alaska economy; Murkowski promotes legislation to support mining of strategic rare earth minerals
Two seminal events related to the Alaska mining industry occurred in the past month. First, in late June, Coeur d'Alene Mines Corp. reported the commencement of production at it Kensington gold mine...

Mining News: Summertime, and the miners are busy 06/27/2010
Explorers, old and new, scour length, breadth of Alaska for gold, silver, copper, nickel, lead, zinc, platinum, and palladium
As the long-awaited summer solstice comes and goes, Alaska's mining industry is deep in the midst of its summer exploration, development and production programs. Mineral exploration programs are under...

Mining News: Bill urges 'restart' of U.S. REEs mining 04/25/2010
Colorado lawmaker advocates stimulating domestic rare earth elements industry, calls for stockpiling minerals deemed critical
Rare earth elements have become a hot topic among United States policymakers. The growing demand for the unique properties of these metals in "green energy" technology and military applications, coupl...

Mining News: Alaskans make pitch at top mining show 03/28/2010
Some 22,000 reps of companies, governments and agencies from around the world rolled out projects in Toronto to see and be seen
I recently attended the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada convention in Toronto where a buoyant, project-hungry crowd of 22,000 created enough of its own hot air to start the Greenland...

Mining News: Terrane wreck lures explorers to Alaska 02/28/2010
Nearly 400 million years of mineral-rich formations crashing into each other created among world's most prospective geology
Geologically, Alaska is a terrane wreck, with multiple tectonic plates dumping their mineral payloads over the landscape. Geologists are still sifting through the wreckage in many places across the st...

Mining News: New year, decade brings opportunities 01/17/2010
Alaska mining industry will continue to supply world's demands for mineral resources, despite ups and downs in global markets
As we plunge headlong into a new year and a new decade, the broad economic indicators for the mining industry suggest continued strong prices for most commodities in 2010 followed by slightly lower av...

Mining News: Junior plans drilling program at Niblack 12/20/2009
Heatherdale intends to spend US$15 million on aggressive exploration to earn majority interest in precious metal-rich VMS project
Heatherdale Resources Ltd., the Hunter Dickinson subsidiary that joined forces with CBR Gold Corp. on the Niblack project, plans an aggressive exploration campaign at the copper-gold-silver-zinc proje...

Mining Explorers 2009: Bokan Mountain deposit is rare earth 11/01/2009
Ucore focuses on exploration of strategic rare earth elements in Southeast Alaska
Ucore Uranium Inc., a junior based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has shifted its primary focus at the Bokan Mountain Granite complex in Southeast Alaska from uranium to rare earth elements. Ucore changed...

Mining Explorers 2009: A year of transition for CBR Gold 11/01/2009
Consolidated junior JVs Alaska VMS project, scopes Nunavut high-grade gold property
Consolidating its name to CBR Gold Corp. and its shares on a 5-to-1 basis, 2009 was a transitional year for the Vancouver B.C.-based junior formerly known as Committee Bay Resources Ltd. With the tr...