ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A tool used by mining companies to find mineral ores has been adapted to map frozen soils below the ground in Alaska and could be used to track the effects of global warming, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The agency announced Monday that an airborne survey conducted in Alaska’s Yukon River [...]

Harvest Gold Corporation announces that a diamond drilling program is set to commence on its 100% owned CUD claim Property, located 8-kms east of San Gold’s operating gold mine in the Town of Bissett, Manitoba. The drill program will test two strong Induced Polarization (IP) geophysical anomalies associated with a shear zone developed within volcanic [...]

Northern Superior Resources Inc. announces that it has defined a potential 4 km fertile section of the Stull-Wunnimun fault in the Wynne Bay area of its 100% owned Rapson Bay gold property. All seven early exploration drill holes (1,850 m) contained intersections that returned positive assays for gold above background levels of 100ppb, including an [...]

Bold Ventures Inc.  announces that a National Instrument 43-101 (“NI-43-101″) Technical Report (the “Bold Technical Report”) has been completed for Bold’s Ring of Fire Claims located in the northeastern portion of the Ring of Fire Area, northeast of Webequie, Ontario. The Bold Technical Report was completed by John C. Archibald, B.Sc. (Hons.) Geol., P.Geo. (“Archibald”) [...]

Amerix Precious Metals Corporation reports that incoming results from its 2011 exploration program have outlined anomalous gold targets defined from geochemical surveys  that have been conducted across several grids established on the Company’s 10,000 hectare Limão Gold Property, located in the Tapajós District, Pará State, Brazil. Amerix contracted Fugro Aviation of Brazil for an airborne magnetic and radiometric [...]

The 2011 exploration program on Comstock’s QV Claims included 769 line-kilometre at 100 m spacing airborne magnetic and radiometric survey, reconnaissance ridge and spur soil surveys, and 100 m by 50 m grid soil surveys. Both airborne surveys and soil surveys have consistently identified two gold trends: North-easterly trend measuring 2600 m long and open [...]

Global consumption of natural graphite has increased from approximately 600,000 tonnes in 2000 to roughly 1.2 million tonnes in 2011. Demand for graphite has been increasing by approximately 5 per cent per year since 2000 due to the continuing modernization of China, India and other emerging economies, resulting in strong demand from traditional end uses [...]

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By Cheryl Pellerin, American Forces Press Service The DOD Task Force for Business and Stability Operations is providing state-of-the-art equipment and, with USGS, training for geophysicists at the Afghanistan Geological Survey so the government eventually can use modern tools to conduct and oversee mineral exploration there. “We’ve been working with the USGS on this program since [...]

North American Nickel Inc. provides details comparing the electromagnetic (EM) results from its recently completed SkyTEM helicopter-borne survey and those from a 1995 vintage GeoTEM fixed-wing survey. The images provided below show that the SkyTEM geophysical system is detecting conductors not seen before and is also resolving previously known EM anomalies in much greater detail. [...]

Newstrike Resources Ltd. announces that it has completed two diamond drill holes to evaluate VTEM airborne geophysical anomalies on the Horseshoe Lake property. The Horseshoe Lake property is comprised of 27 mining claims units contained in 4 unpatented mining claims. The Horseshoe Lake property is located between the South Bay Mine (past producer) (9.5 km [...]

Northern Lion Gold Corp. wishes to announce the commencement of the airborne geophysical survey covering the Company’s western permits in the Republic of Cyprus. The Company has contracted Geotech Airborne Malta, Limited (“Geotech”) to carry out a helicopter-borne Versatile Time-Domain Electromagnetic (“VTEM“) geophysical survey at 100 metre line spacing for a total of 850 line [...]