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...

Mining Explorers 2009: Gold shines through financial cloud 11/01/2009
While base metal explorers struggled, gold seekers carried the torch in 2009
The plunge of base metal prices and turmoil in the financial markets caused explorers and producers alike to scale back exploration budgets for 2009. North of 60 Mining News estimates this year's expl...

Mining News: Recession walloped exploration spending 10/25/2009
As drought in available venture capital eases, miners seeking acquisitions would do well to accelerate the pace of purchases
As the active exploration season winds down in Alaska, both good news and bad is afoot and both sets of news turn out to be the same data. Double speak you say? Read on and judge for yourself. Halifa...

Mining News: JV partners plan exploration at Niblack 08/30/2009
Hunter Dickinson, CBR Gold schedule drilling start in September aimed at tracing high-grade mineralization into Lookout Mountain
Hunter Dickinson has joined forces with CBR Gold Corp. to resume exploration of the Niblack copper-gold-silver-zinc project on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska. Heatherdale Resources Ltd., a...

Mining News: Alaska explorers hit potential pay dirt 08/30/2009
Miners report encouraging exploration results in their search for a range of commodities, from the expected to the unpronounceable
They say when it rains, it pours, and that is just what is happening with news from field programs all over Alaska. Results from summer 2009 programs are pouring in from the Brooks Range to Prince of...

Mining News: Bokan Mountain may be strategic deposit 06/28/2009
Investors take note as demand for unfamiliar rare earth elements raises profile of resource in Southeast as global supply shrinks
Advances in high technology, especially the recent drive to produce increasingly efficient hybrid automobiles, is spurring demand for rare earth elements and energizing a little-known mining sector wi...

Mining News: Rough days may be ahead for mining 04/26/2009
Experts: Raising venture capital will be industry's biggest challenge in 2009, while juniors lacking cash on hand will fade away
Last month we talked about economic impacts of the Alaska mining industry. This month, the world mineral exploration industry is in our crosshairs. Halifax-based Metals Economics Group reported that...

Mining News: Committee Bay explorer restructures 03/29/2009
With a consolidated name and share structure, CBR Gold plans to spend C$5 million to advance its Three Bluffs and Niblack projects
Committee Bay Resources Ltd. completed a 5-to-1 share consolidation in February. The restructured company also changed its name to CBR Gold Corp. As a result of the name change, the company began trad...

Looking for biomass fuel alternatives 02/22/2009
Could wood and other biomass fuels become a more significant part of the Alaska energy mix, especially for rural communities?
Thoughts of a bygone era in the Alaska frontier conjure up images of rustic cabins and roaring log fires. And many a home in the state still enjoys the heat from a wood stove. But in the age of centra...

Mining News: Alaska mining project roundup 01/25/2009
Alaska saw robust mining activity in 2008 across the full spectrum of the industry, from small placer operations to major producers, and from exploration programs to advanced development projects. Her...

AK-WA Connection 2008: Aggressive innovator APandT finds winning combination in providing renewable energy and communications services to communities 11/30/2008
Q) What are the keys to APandT's success? A) APandT's success is credited to its aggressive leadership in developing clean technology renewable resource-based energy generation, coupled with a highly-mot...

AK-WA Connection 2008: Renewable energy fuels APandT in Alaska 11/30/2008
Washington-based company carves niche as electricity, telecommunications services provider in Southeast and Interior communities
No company better exemplifies the dynamic business connection between Alaska and Washington than Alaska Power and Telephone. The Port Townsend, Wash.-based energy and communications utility company pro...

Mining News: Niblack Project wins excellence award 11/30/2008
Exploration team earns recognition for exceeding expectations of state regulators with complex, underground program in Southeast
The Niblack Mining Project on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska and its developers have won the 2007-2008 Alaska Commissioner's Award of Project Excellence. Dick Mylius, director of the Mini...

Mining News: Constantine hunts mammoth VMS 11/30/2008
MacVeigh and Green reunite to uncover a Greens Creek-style late-Triassic VMS deposit in the 'elephant country' of Southeast Alaska
A decade after first kicking rocks around the Palmer Project, Constantine Metal Resources Ltd. President and CEO Garfield MacVeigh and Constantine's new Vice President of Exploration Darwin Green have...

Mining News: Junior mining companies active in Alaska exploration 10/26/2008
Full Metal Minerals Ltd. has 11 exploration projects spanning Alaska. The company's two primary projects are the Lucky Shot high-grade gold property about 90 miles north of Anchorage, and the LWM zinc...

Mining News: Advanced stage exploration projects 10/26/2008
Coeur d'Alene Mines Corp.'s Kensington gold mine project, located about 45 miles northwest of Juneau, is expecting a Supreme Court ruling on its tailings permits in early 2009. If the court upholds th...

Mining News: When the dust settles... 10/26/2008
AMA director Borell predicts Alaska will become more attractive to mining companies and reflects on important events of 2008
Alaska's mining industry captured the attention, not only of Alaskans but also the country during the past year when a controversy over the proposed Pebble Project in Southwest Alaska bubbled to the s...

Mining News: Alaska mining industry faces credit crunch 10/26/2008
High-quality exploration, development projects will likely survive despite worldwide shortage of venture capital, financing
The national sucking sound of venture capital exiting the mining industry has now expanded to a worldwide sucking sound as virtually all of the world's economies fight the massive, unprecedented credi...

Mining News: Opportunities will mushroom for the bold 09/28/2008
Largest melt-down since the Great Depression brings uncertainty to U.S. economy; Alaska mining industry sure to feel effects
With termination dust settling ever lower throughout Alaska, the bulk of the 2008 exploration season has been completed, but lots of results are still pending from projects around the state. As the ex...

Mining News: Miners head into second half of 2008 08/31/2008
As commodities prices slide and costs increase, evidence mounts that industry's economic 'super-cycle' wasn't especially 'super'
Several drilling programs started in the last month and several others began reporting initial results from programs commenced earlier in the summer. Two of Alaska's operating mines reported strong op...

Mining News: Early assays, impressive results 07/27/2008
Early assays from the 2008 drill season reveal some impressive gold and polymetallic results; additional results expected
Assays are beginning to roll in from projects around Alaska with some particularly impressive results from gold exploration in the Livengood District and equally impressive polymetallic results from...

Mining News: Juniors seek merger to explore Niblack 06/29/2008
Niblack, Committee Bay say combination would benefit both companies; union would put Southeast Alaska VMS project on fast-track
Two Vancouver B.C.-based explorers, Committee Bay Resources Ltd. and Niblack Mining Corp., have agreed to join forces. The companies have penned an initial agreement in which Committee Bay would acqui...