Werdon reported in 2016 on selected mining and exploration projects in Alaska.
Overview:
• 5 major lode mines producing Zn, Pb, Au, & Ag
• ~ 150 small placer mines
• 1 coal mine
• 23 active exploration projects with diverse deposit types.
2016 Alaska Gold Production:
Pogo Mine [Sumitomo Metal Mining Pogo LLC]
Kensington Mine [Coeur Alaska, Inc.]
Chandalar (Placer)
Fort Knox (intrusion hosted) [KINROSS]
Greens Creek (VMS) [Hecla Mining]
2016 Zinc, Lead, and Silver Production
Red Dog – Sediment-hosted Zn-Pb-Ag: [Teck/NANA]
Greens Creek – VMS Ag-Zn-Pb-Au: [Hecla Mining]
2016 Alaska Coal
Chuitna Coal Project: PacRim Coal
Wishbone Hill:
Advanced Project
Donlin Gold: [50% Barrick Gold Corp./50% NovaGold Resources Inc.]
Advanced Exploration - Base Metal and Polymetallic
Arctic VMS - Cu-Zn-Pb-Ag-Au:[Trilogy and NANA]
Bornite – Cu-(Ag-Co):[Trilogy and NANA]
Palmer – Zn-Cu-Pb-Au-Ag VMS [Constantine and DOWA]
Porphyry Cu-Au-Mo-Ag Updates
Copper Joe: [First Quantum and KISKA]
Pebble [Northern Dynasty]
Whistler [Brazil Resources, Inc.]
Island Mountain [Brazil Resources, Inc.]
Advanced Exploration – Graphite, REEs
Graphite Creek – Graphite: [Graphite One]
Bokan – Dotson Ridge – REE:[UCORE]
2016 Exploration
Tetlin [Peak Gold, LLC; JV between Contango Ore Inc./Royal Gold Inc.]
Tok Project [Alaska DGGS]
Caribou Dome [Coventry Resources, Inc.]
Elephant Mountain [Endurance Gold Corporation]
Roundtop [Western Alaska Copper and Gold]
Unga project [Redstar Gold Corp.]
Shorty Creek [Freegold Ventures Limited]
Honolulu [Honolulu Prospect Corp.]
SAM District [GAME; Great American Minerals Exploration, Inc.]
Richardson [Northern Empire Resources Corp.]
West Pogo project [Millrock Resources Inc.]
Stellar project [Millrock Resources Inc./Vista Minerals Party Ltd.]
Red Mountain/Dry Creek [White Rock Minerals Ltd.]
Opal [Porterfield]
Zarembo [Zarembo Minerals Co. LLC]
and
[McCarthy Basin and Adjacent, Eastern Seward Peninsula [I2M Consulting, LLC]]
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