United States Antimony expands its Alaska portfolio
Mcleran River claims about 75 miles south of Delta Junction. In addition to antimony and gold, U.S. Antimony says its newly staked land package at Stibnite Creek is pro- spective for silver, gold, and zinc. The company says the mix of met- als found at Stibnite Creek and other Alaska properties are "efforts to secure and develop its own domestic sources of critical minerals essential for mili- tary, aerospace, quantum computing, and energy storage applications." Impressed with the quality of the antimony deposits it has identified so far on its Alaska properties, U.S. Antimony plans to begin sending test shipments of raw material from these projects to its Montana processing facility later this year. — Shane Lasley, North of 60 Mining News
an additional 18 claims, United States Antimony has expanded its antimo- ny-prospective landholding in the Fairbanks area to 8,998 acres. The company said this expanded land package will be the initial target of 2025 exploration slated to get un- derway in May, weather permitting. Rodney Blakestad, vice president of the mining division at U.S. Antimony, will be leading the company's Alaska programs. Blakestad, a graduate of University of Alaska, Fairbanks, is an economic geologist with over 45 years of experience in the hard rock mining space, including 20 in Alaska. In addition to the early season work on its claims in the Fairbanks area, U.S. Antimony is currently planning exploration programs for its Stibnite Creek properties near the Alaska Highway about 200 miles southeast of Fairbanks, as well as the
Corporation prepares to begin exploration, test- ing of its claims United States Antimony Corp. April 7 announced the expansion of its antimony-gold claims near Fair- banks, Alaska, and in the Maclaren River area south of the Alaska Range. Last summer, the critical miner- als-focused company that owns an antimony smelter in Montana began building a portfolio of claims in Alas- ka enriched with antimony, copper, gold, silver, and other minerals. The company recently expand- ed its Alaska land position with a new lease and option agreement for lands adjacent to previously acquired properties in the Fairbanks Mining District. Coupled with the staking of
Photo Courtesy U.S. Antimony United States Antimony owns an antimony smelter in Montana where it plans to begin sending test shipments of raw material later this year.
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