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The Red Dog zinc and lead mine in remote northwest Alaska appears to be the victim of another misleading environmental report - this time, one causing some residents in neighboring villages alarm about the quality of berries and greens gathered as food sources. The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Public Health, Section of Epidemiology, recently issued a report reassuring local residents in northwest Alaska about the safety of naturally growing subsistence food sources in the region. State...
Eastern European organized crime could take the sparkle off the Northwest Territories' diamond industry by smuggling diamonds from global war zones into the Canadian production life, warns Canada's spy agency. An intelligence report obtained by the Canadian Press news agency said the potential exists for criminal elements, notably syndicates in eastern Europe, to "fraudulently market (conflict diamonds) as bona fide Canadian stones." It said that would put Canada in contravention of the Kimberley Process Certification...
The Alaska Miners Association annual convention and trade show is scheduled for Nov. 1-6 at the Sheraton Hotel in Anchorage, Alaska. The theme of this year's convention is, "Alaska-Where You Can Still Permit and Build a Mine." Short courses will be held Nov. 1-2. Technical sessions and the trade show will be Nov. 3-5. The rock and mineral show will be Nov. 5-6. More information is available from the Alaska Miners Association at 3305 Arctic Blvd., Ste. 105, Anchorage, AK 99503; by calling (907) 563-9229; or emailing...
After years of contentious debate, lawsuits and sporadic negotiations, the two major players involved in the Healy Clean Coal Project, an experimental coal-fired power plant built with $300 million in state and federal funds and shuttered since 2000, have terminated their relationship. During a July 23 meeting in Anchorage involving the project's players as well as state politicians and Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski, power plant owner Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority formally announced that the state agency... Full story
MAX Resource Corp. recently completed its first phase of core drilling on its new Interior Alaska property, the Gold Hill project about 10 miles off the Denali Highway. In early July, drilling crews and geological consultants from Alaska Earth Sciences completed 1,400 feet of core drilling, drilling seven holes each to a depth of about 200 feet, according to Clancy Wendt, vice president of exploration for MAX Resource. Now, MAX Resource hopes to initiate a second phase of core drilling this year, although that work depends...
More than two dozen Alaskans visited the diamond mines of Canada's Northwest Territories in early July in a tour organized by the Alaska Miners Association. Following the tour, Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski, a member of the tour group, said "Alaska and its neighbors in the Yukon Territory, the Northwest Territories and throughout Canada share a common goal of responsible development to meet worldwide demand for our resources. Whether drilling for oil and gas, hard-rock mining for gold, digging for base metals - or even...
Heavy rains in late July and early August have dampened the number of wildlands fires that burned through Interior and the eastern part of Alaska, adversely affecting placer miners and metals prospectors attempting to complete field work this summer. Large fires in the eastern Interior, covering the Fortymile mining district, continue to smolder and creep, according to the Aug. 2 report from the Alaska Interagency Coordination Center, which is monitoring about 100 active fires in the state. So far, 520 fires in Alaska have...
Teryl Resources Corp. continues to prospect on ground nearby the Fort Knox mine northeast of Fairbanks, Alaska, this time drilling on some placer claims with historical gold occurrences just downstream from the mine's fresh water dam. Reverse circulation drilling has started on 25 placer drill holes, vertical eight-inch diameter holes on two lines, according to the company's Aug. 4 press release. Each line will contain 10 to 15 drill holes, spaced 50 to 200 feet apart and from 45 to 75 feet deep, penetrating bedrock by up to... Full story
Freegold Ventures has some recently acquired high-grade rock samples taken in July from a new portion of the Golden Summit project northeast of Fairbanks, Alaska, to show off during a planned tour and investor presentation in mid August. The Vancouver, British Columbia, junior, which has prospected Golden Summit for more than a decade, has put together a $740,000 exploration program for the property with new partner, Meridian Gold. This year, the companies have flown airborne geophysics over the 18,000-acre property, drilled...
One of the most bizarre summers in Alaska's recent history is in full swing and only the snows of winter will dampen things. I am speaking of course of the impact that Alaska's plus-4 million acres of wildfires have had on mineral exploration, development and operations in the central and eastern parts of the state. The fires came along with an unusually dry and warm summer for virtually all of the state. In addition to the usual problems of who's AWOL after the Fourth of... Full story
Long-time Alaska prospector Freegold Ventures has ventured across the border into the Yukon Territory, optioning a gold property west of Ross River with a previously drilled, 221,000 ounce gold and 835,000 ounce silver resource. In a July 14 press release, Freegold Ventures said it signed an option agreement to earn a 100 percent interest in the Grew Creek Gold property, 35 kilometers (21.7 miles) west of the historical mining town of Ross River in the southeastern part of the Yukon Territory. The Vancouver, British... Full story
Developers hoping to restart production at the underground, shuttered Nixon Fork gold-copper mine in central Alaska announced more high-grade drilling results from an underground drilling program this summer. The best intercept from new drilling results measured 4.6 meters at 162.5 grams of gold per ton of rock, or 15 feet at 5.22 ounces of gold per ton of rock. Other intercepts ranged from 0.94 ounces to 1.6 ounces of gold per ton of rock. Drilling work at the C-3300 Chute Zone, one of three being tested by underground drill... Full story
Usibelli Coal Mine Inc., Alaska's only commercial coal producer, will send a shipment of its Healy coal south this fall to be test burned in a power plant operation in Chile, opening the door to a potential new international market. The test supply contract was signed with Glencore Ltd., a leader in the international coal trade business, the company said in a July 20 press release. Usibelli currently ships about 400,000 tons of coal to South Korea for consumption in an electric generation plant. This international customer...
