Mining News: Geophysics reveal deep targets at Man 01/17/2010
Pure Nickel plans to drill targets in large conductive bodies located below two areas of its nickel-copper-PGE property in Alaska
During their first exploration season as joint venture partners at the Man nickel-copper-platinum group element project in Interior Alaska, Pure Nickel Inc. and Itochu Corp. said they discovered compe...

Mining News: Junior scores 'major' coup in Far North 01/17/2010
AngloGold Ashanti Holdings Plc joins Commander Resources Inc. quest for 'elephant' gold on district-scale Baffin Island property
Among juniors actively working to attract majors to invest in mineral exploration projects scattered across Canada's Far North, one Vancouver, B.C.-based company leaped to the front of the pack recent...

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: Fortune chooses Saskatoon for refinery 11/22/2009
Junior agrees to purchase land in Saskatchewan to process ore mined at the Nico polymetallic project in Northwest Territories
Fortune Minerals Ltd. has identified a site in Saskatchewan for a processing facility for its Nico Project located 160 kilometers, or 99 miles, northwest of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. The jun...

Mining News: Parnell lauds Alaska permitting process 11/22/2009
"The state will continue to defend our permits that we issue, and our permitting process. That is the least I can do as governor"
Alaska Governor Sean Parnell reflected on Alaska's rich mining history and vowed to defend the state's mining regulatory process and to oppose unjust attacks on the industry during an address to miner...

Mining News: Optimism surges among Alaska miners 11/22/2009
As metals prices climb and world demand resumes upward trend, mineral industry prepares for period of robust activity in 2010
Metals markets continue to climb out of the basement as the world demand for metals resumes its upward trend. Fueled by this growing demand, numerous Alaska precious, base and rare metal projects repo...

Mining Explorers 2009: Prize Mining Corporation 11/01/2009
PRZ: TSX-V President and CEO: James "Jim" Glass Interim chairman and CFO: Feisal Somji Prize Mining Corp., founded in 1996 in Alberta, is dedicated to the exploration, discovery and development of p...

Mining Explorers 2009: Economy dims North star in 2009 11/01/2009
Diamond, metals exploration continues, albeit at somewhat slower pace in Northwest Territories
Hampered by a recession-driven drought in capital markets, mineral explorers in the Northwest Territories met the challenges of 2009 with a variety of survival strategies. With significant diamond, pr...

Mining Explorers 2009: Hard Creek Nickel Corp. 11/01/2009
HNC: TSX President and CEO: Mark Jarvis Executive Vice President: Neil Froc Manager of Geology: Tony Hitchins Hard Creek Nickel Corp., organized 26 years ago in British Columbia, is developing its...

Mining Explorers 2009: JV seeks base metals, PGEs at Man 11/01/2009
Pure Nickel, Itochu explore high-grade nickel-copper-PGE property in Alaska
Forging a partnership in 2008 on the Man Project in Alaska, Pure Nickel Inc. and Itochu Corp. launched a US$4.9 million exploration program at the high-grade nickel-copper-platinum group element prope...

Mining Explorers 2009: B.C. explorers recover slowly 11/01/2009
Gold prices and federal funding for power line give boost to northern miners
Most of the mining companies looking for minerals in northern British Columbia ushered in 2009 with high hopes and little else. "It's a perfect storm. The credit crunch in the world financial system...

Mining Explorers 2009: Discovering Nunavut: 10 years of growth and opportunities ahead 11/01/2009
Nunavut was created on April 1, 1999. The new territory and the public government, in which I am proud to be the Minister of Mines, was created as part of the largest aboriginal land claims settlement...

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 Explorers 2009: Starfield Resources Inc. 11/01/2009
SRU: TSX / SRFDF:OTCBB President and CEO: André J. Douchane Chief Financial Officer: Greg Van Staveren Vice President of Exploration: Raymond Irwin Starfield Resources Inc. is a 25-year-old advanced...

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: Canada chips in for northwest power line 09/27/2009
B.C. officials, miners praise federal government's investment of C$130 million in future economy in northern region of province
The Canadian government has approved C$130 million in funding for construction of the Northwest Transmission Line in northern British Columbia, a power conduit that could eventually connect with Alask...

Asian dragon stirring to life on resources 09/27/2009
China takes more subtle approach in efforts to secure minerals, oil and natural gas; Canadian government rolls out welcome mat
Since 2006, Chinese investors have acquired almost 11,000 square miles of African farmland. In August, China's state-controlled Jilin Jien Nickel Industry Co. made a surprise C$148.5 million unsolicit...

Mining News: Junior clears obstacles to Nico Project 08/30/2009
Fortune opts to move hydrometallurgical process to southern Canada; completes dismantling mine buildings, equipment in Ontario
Fortune Minerals Ltd. is taking the lemons it has encountered in developing the Nico Project in Northwest Territories and making lemonade. The London, Ont.-based junior recently reported substantial p...

Two views of US national interest 08/30/2009
State Department issues permit for pipeline from Alberta oil sands, citing 'strategic' interests; environmentalists file challenges
The ingredients are there for what could be one of the pivotal test cases involving the future of exports from the Alberta oil sands to the United States. No sooner had the U.S. State Department issue...

Mining News: Discovery sparks rush to White Gold area 06/28/2009
Miners scramble to stake thousands of claims within weeks as Underworld Resources' drilling results capture industry's imagination
The recent discovery of significant gold mineralization near the headwaters of the White River in western Yukon Territory has sparked a staking rush fired by the imagination of miners with a long memo...

Mining News: Mining industry gears up for new season 05/31/2009
Worldwide economic uncertainties persist, though metals prices are climbing and some investors are snapping up bargain properties
Spring has arrived in Alaska and the mining industry is heading to the hills to do its work. Compared to last year, the state is a quiet place in the sun due to drastically reduced exploration and dev...

Tesoro uses more crude oils at Nikiski 05/03/2009
Refinery formerly used just Cook Inlet, North Slope crude oil; 14 new crude oils from around the world run at facility last year
Tesoro's Nikiski refinery was built to process Cook Inlet crude oil and over the years as Cook Inlet production declined the refinery substituted Alaska North Slope crude oil and at one time was runni...

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: Junior hunkers down at Turnagain 03/29/2009
Hard Creek Nickel aims to weather financial storm by focusing on metallurgical studies, development work at giant nickel project
In a recent message to company stakeholders, Hard Creek Nickel Corp. President Mark Jarvis, described the credit crunch, worldwide recession and collapse in commodity prices as the "perfect storm." ...

Mining News: Mineral Roundup in the Northwest Territories 03/29/2009
The Northwest Territories has four operating mines: three diamond producers and one long-running tungsten operation. Exploration and development activity was brisk in 2008 with the most advanced proje...