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Competition for mining employees is intensifying in Alaska, with mines from the Lower 48 advertising their signing bonuses in Fairbanks, while the Pogo project tries to counter their offers with even bigger ones. State legislators heard about this... — Updated 9/25/2005

As expected, news has begun to trickle in from projects being worked on across the state. Some of the news is good, some not so good and some makes one scratch the head and wonder what it all means. Two new corporations entered the Alaska... — Updated 9/25/2005

Kensington General Manager Tim Arnold has at last been able to update his presentation to report on real construction. Until now the talk was all about planned timelines, but with all the permits in the bag for Coeur d'Alene's gold project near... — Updated 9/25/2005 Full story

Alaska's long struggle to bring the Healy Clean Coal Plant on line may come to fruition if state officials find a willing operator. But the Healy plant is not the only clean coal power plant in the far Northwest. Genesee-3, the most advanced... — Updated 9/25/2005

Vancouver, British Columbia-based Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. has discovered a significant new porphyry copper-gold system at its Pebble project in near Iliamna in Southwest Alaska, according to Ronald Thiessen, company president and CEO. The... — Updated 9/25/2005

Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski appointed Bartly Coiley, Usibelli Coal Mine's environmental affairs manager, to the Alaska Minerals Commission in August. Coiley fills the seat vacated by another Usibelli employee, Charles Boddy. The commission makes... — Updated 9/25/2005

Monogold Resources Inc. posted results Sept. 15 of sampling results from its 2005 summer exploration program at the Nyac Gold Project in southwestern Alaska that reinforce its geologists' theory that the prospect contains a gold deposit similar to... — Updated 9/25/2005

A century after copper mining began in Prince William Sound southeast of Anchorage a team of scientists is analyzing the region's environment to find out if metals are having an adverse effect. Not all the results are in yet, but in some places... — Updated 9/25/2005

KoryakGeoldobycha's reputation depends on making a success of Aginskoye mine. Bystrinsky Mining Co., headed by the ebullient Andrei Kozlov, is firing on all cylinders to achieve the first gold pour at the mine by the end of the year. KGD has built... — Updated 9/25/2005

Yukon Zinc Corp., formerly Expatriate Resources, is rapidly advancing a moderate-size project in southeast Yukon toward development. The Yukon Silver-Zinc Project is centered largely on the Wolverine deposit tucked into the side of a mountain in... — Updated 9/25/2005