Mining News: Junior finds REEs, niobium on gem claims 01/17/2010
True North Gems confirms significant mineralization at aquamarine property near the Ketza River gold mine south of Ross River
After focusing on its ruby-rich claims in Greenland for the past few years, True North Gems Inc. has returned to Yukon Territory to hunt for rare earth elements rather than gems. The junior has confir...

Mining News: Wanted: Mineral prospectors with skills 01/17/2010
Far North territories, B.C. governments use mining incentives to ease financial burden of grassroots exploration by individuals
Just as junior and major mining companies have important roles to play in the chain of developments that lead, hopefully, to discovery of substantial mineral deposits and subsequent commercial develop...

Mining News: Prospector looks beyond White Gold find 01/17/2010
Yukon's Shawn Ryan sees bright future for mining district; expects major to purchase Underworld property then grab Coffee deposit
The prospector who discovered the highly promising White Gold property near Dawson City, Yukon Territory says he believes the future is beyond bright for the region – it's blazing. Shawn Ryan, a self-...

Mining News: Junior jumps in with both feet at Ambler 01/17/2010
NovaGold agrees to buy Arctic VMS project for US$29 million; opts to focus on environmental studies, Northwest community in 2010
NovaGold Resources Inc. has cut a deal with Rio Tinto subsidiary Kennecott Exploration Co. to purchase 100 percent interest in the precious-metal-rich Ambler copper-zinc property in Northwest Alaska....

Ho-ho-hold the holidays 01/10/2010
Proponents of Mackenzie gas have tight deadline to respond to 679-page report
It landed Dec. 30 with a thud on desks in the high-rise petroleum towers of downtown Calgary, spoiling whatever hopes employees working on the Mackenzie Gas Project might have had to put their feet up...

Mining News: Panel seeks staking ban for most of Peel 12/20/2009
Mining group worries recommendations will lock up valuable resources; start anti-mining trend in Yukon's other mineral-rich areas
A review panel has recommended that most of the Peel River watershed region in northeast Yukon Territory be withdrawn from industrial use, including mineral resource development. In long-awaited reco...

Mining News: Junior lauded for innovative reclamation 12/20/2009
Western Copper cleans up abandoned workings on Casino property, while targeting zero environmental impact from current activities
Western Copper Corp. won the coveted Robert E. Leckie Award for 2009 for outstanding reclamation of old abandoned workings on the Casino Property in west-central Yukon Territory. But the junior explo...

Mining News: Yukon mining stays strong in recession 12/20/2009
Territory and First Nations leaders: Mining plays important role in Yukon; vigilance needed to remain globally competitive
WHITEHORSE – Since the Klondike Gold Rush when tens of thousands of fortune-seekers stampeded to this northern land looking for gold, the mining industry has been the backbone of Yukon Territory's eco...

Mining News: Selwyn teams with Chinese miner 12/20/2009
Investor will sink C$100 million into new joint operator charged with advancing giant zinc-lead deposit to commercial production
Selwyn Resources Ltd., owner of the zinc and lead deposit of the same name in the mountains of eastern Yukon Territory, has entered a binding framework agreement with a large Chinese corporate investo...

Beaufort dispute boiling over 12/06/2009
The Canadian government has filed a formal protest with Washington over Alaska's plans to auction exploration rights in a disputed portion of the Beaufort Sea and is being urged to raise the issue at...

Melt could cost trillions 12/06/2009
Pipelines, roads, buildings threatened by extreme temperature swings in Arctic
A meltdown in northern Canada is endangering pipelines, roads and buildings - including C$5 trillion worth of aging infrastructure - if climate change continues unabated in the decades ahead, says a r...

Mining News: Yukon power line upgrades get under way 11/22/2009
Infrastructure project is expected to connect northern and southern grids, enhance mine development opportunities along route
Work got under way in October on stage 2 of Yukon Energy's Carmacks-Stewart transmission line, a long-needed infrastructure project aimed at dramatically improving access to and affordability of elect...

Mining News: Junior seeks flavor of Coffee prospect 11/22/2009
Kaminak Gold gets promising start on exploration of its claims in the historically gold-rich White District south of Dawson City
Kaminak Gold Corp. is one of the frontrunners in the exploration rush sparked by Underworld Resources Inc.'s recent gold discovery in the White District of Yukon Territory. In less than six months, th...

Mining News: 2008 gold discovery gets better in 2009 11/22/2009
Explorer drills longer intersections of high-grade gold at Rau Project in east-central Yukon; plans C$12.5 million program in 2010
RAU PROJECT, Yukon Territory – While the "White Gold Rush" captured the headlines in 2009, Atac Resources Ltd. quietly conducted a one-company claim-staking rush covering known geochemical and geologi...

Mining News: Race heats up for territory's next mine 11/22/2009
Alexco Resource and Yukon Zinc are rolling into home stretch of competition to develop Yukon's second operating mine after Minto
The race to become the next operating mine in Yukon Territory is heating up as two projects, Alexco Resource Corp.'s Bellekeno silver project and Yukon Zinc Corp.'s Wolverine volcanic massive sulphide...

The Explorers 2009: Interior Alaska basins 11/15/2009
Although analysts think that the majority of Alaska's oil and gas resources lie within the major basins of northern Alaska, Cook Inlet and the Bristol Bay area, there are several other basins around t...

The Explorers 2009: Alaska Peninsula and North Aleutian basin 11/15/2009
The North Aleutian basin, also known as the Bristol Bay basin, extends more than 200 miles along the north side of the Alaska Peninsula and out into the southern Bering Sea shelf. The southeastern por...

State says line on schedule, on budget 11/15/2009
Alaska commissioners of Natural Resources, Revenue, report to legislators on the state-backed TransCanada gas pipeline project
The AGIA-licensed Alaska Pipeline Project is on schedule and on budget, Alaska's commissioners of Revenue and Natural Resources said in a report to legislators released Oct. 31. The report, the secon...

Mining Explorers 2009: Northern Tiger Resources Inc. 11/01/2009
NTR: TSX-V President and CEO: Greg Hayes Director: Lori Walton Vice President, Exploration: Dennis Ouellette Northern Tiger Resources Inc., formed in April 2008 in Alberta as a spinoff of Firestone V...

Mining Explorers 2009: Northern Freegold Resources Ltd. 11/01/2009
NFR: TSX CEO and COO: Bill Harris President: Susan P. Craig Vice President, Exploration: Corwin Coe Northern Freegold Resources Ltd., founded in 2006, in the development stage as of March 31, 2009, i...

Mining Explorers 2009: North American Tungsten Corporation Ltd. 11/01/2009
NTC: TSX-V Chairman and CEO: Stephen M. Leahy Chief Operating Officer: J. Britt Reid Chief Geologist: Finley Bakker North American Tungsten Corp. Ltd., founded in 1979, is engaged in tungsten mining...

Mining Explorers 2009: Prospects pan out at White Gold 11/01/2009
Underworld delivers strong 2009 drilling results on red-hot Yukon property
Underworld Resources Inc. hit the ground running in 2009, reporting impressive assay results in the first three holes of its drilling program at its White Gold Project in late May. For two field seas...

Mining Explorers 2009: Kaminak Gold Corporation 11/01/2009
KAM: TSX-V President and CEO: Rob Carpenter Chairman: John Robins Chief Geologist: Craig S. Finnigan Kaminak Gold Corp., formed in 2005 in British Columbia, is a prospect generator recently focused...

Mining Explorers 2009: Alix explores two new gold projects 11/01/2009
Junior's geologists investigate properties in Goodpaster, White districts
Alix Resources Corp. geologists spent the summer investigating the junior's two new gold properties in Alaska and the Yukon Territory. Joining the 2009 gold rush to the White District south of Dawson...

Mining Explorers 2009: Golden Predator Royalty and Development Corp. 11/01/2009
GPD: TSX-V Chairman and CEO: William M. Sheriff (mug) President: Robert Eadie President of True North Mining Corp.: Art Ettlinger Golden Predator Royalty and Development Corp., spun-out with the prec...