Mining News: Explorers chase new, old Yukon prospects 12/19/2010
Gold projects dominated 2010 exploration throughout northern territory, though copper and base metal projects also made advances
A pair of gold discoveries led a torrent of exploration news pouring out of Yukon Territory this year as numerous newcomers joined old hands in the hunt for the yellow metal and other lucrative minera...

Mining News: Geologists must resist 'pigheadedness' 12/19/2010
Technology advances, ore deposit models fail to trump boots on the ground and keen observation in mineral exploration successes
As the last days of the decade tick by, I am tempted to look back on 2010 and distill the year in a few sentences. I'll resist and opt for a bunch of sentences similar to some I recently dumped on the...

2010 Mining Explorers: Pure Nickel Inc. 10/31/2010
NIC: TSX President and CEO: David McPherson Chairman: R. David Russell Chief Consulting Geologist: Larry Hulbert Pure Nickel Inc., a junior with a portfolio of nickel and platinum group element proje...

2010 Mining Explorers: Hunter Dickinson Inc. 10/31/2010
Chairman: Robert Dickinson CEO: Ronald Thiessen Hunter Dickinson Inc. is a Vancouver, B.C.-based private company associated with a suite of publicly-traded companies engaged in mineral exploration,...

2010 Mining Explorers: Copper Ridge Explorations Ltd. 10/31/2010
KRX: TSX-V President and CEO: J. Greg Dawson, M.Sc., PGeo. Non-Executive Chairman: William M. Sheriff Chief Financial Officer: Justin Blanchet, CA Operating under the philosophy that it will maximiz...

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...

2010 Mining Explorers: Future offers promise for mining 10/31/2010
Northwest Territories leaders favor mineral projects with win-win scenarios
The search for furs opened up the Northwest Territories more than 400 years ago, bringing explorers and traders to the North. In today's economy, it's the search for – and the development of – mineral...