Newcastle Minerals Ltd. is a junior mining company trading on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSX-V; NCM) that has been active in exploring for gold and base metal deposits in Northwestern British Columbia. Our properties include gold prospects located in the Iskut River area, known as the very active "Golden Triangle" approximately 3km east-northeast of the Snip Gold Mine, as well as properties in Telegraph Creek.

Current Project: Snip North, Iskut River Area, British Columbia.
The Snip North property, owned 100% by Newcastle, is located on trend and some 2 to 2.5 kilometers to the northwest of the Bronson Slope gold-copper-silver-molybdenum deposit owned by Skyline Gold Corporation.

The assay results from this 2007 drilling program and, as well, the 2006 drilling program confirm the definition of a separate copper-gold-molybdenum porphyry mineralization zone, called the Iskut Deposit, that is returning significant gold-copper-molybdenum values over substantial intercept lengths.  The results from the 2007 drilling program for the five Iskut Deposit drill holes are read full story...