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When the dust settles
Alaska's mining industry captured the attention, not only of Alaskans but also the country during the past year when a controversy over the proposed Pebble Project in Southwest Alaska bubbled to... — Updated 2/1/2018
Miners reclaim Alaska mines as they work
Reclamation is a critical element of modern mining and mine planning. In Alaska, companies who wish to extract minerals from the earth must first present a plan on how they propose to return the... — Updated 10/25/2009
News from Alaska field slows in summer
The Alaska summer is in full swing but news is slow in arriving from new field programs and mining operations around the state. The biggest news in the past month was the U.S. Supreme Court's... — Updated 7/26/2009 Full story
Alaska mining project roundup
Alaska saw robust mining activity in 2008 across the full spectrum of the industry, from small placer operations to major producers, and from exploration programs to advanced development projects. Here is a look at companies reporting significant... — Updated 1/25/2009
Miners spend record $4 billion in 2007
Alaska's mineral industry set a new spending record of about $4 billion in 2007, up 13.3 percent from the value of the industry's expenditures in 2006, according to an 89-page report released Nov.... — Updated 11/30/2008 Full story
Usibelli anticipates cap-and-trade
Environmental stewardship is "old hat" for the Usibelli Coal Mine near Healy, Alaska, Bartly Coiley told attendees at the Alaska Miners Association 2008 Annual Convention in Anchorage Nov. 7. The... — Updated 11/30/2008
Producing mines in Alaska
NovaGold Resources Inc.'s Rock Creek gold mine began production Sept. 19. Crews began feeding the 6,500-metric-ton-per-day-mill at 25 percent capacity with a ramp-up to full production targeted for year's end. Once in full production, the... — Updated 10/26/2008
Opportunities will mushroom for the bold
With termination dust settling ever lower throughout Alaska, the bulk of the 2008 exploration season has been completed, but lots of results are still pending from projects around the state. As the... — Updated 9/28/2008 Full story
Junior chases Pebble-like deposit
CARMACKS - Western Copper Corporation said its Casino copper-gold-molybdenum deposit in central Yukon Territory has the potential to be developed economically as a sizable open-pit mine. The porphyry deposit at Casino is the latest in a long line... — Updated 7/27/2008
Longtime Alaskan joins Pebble Project
When Anglo American plc. CEO Cynthia Carroll spoke to Alaska business leaders during a visit to Anchorage in October she vowed that the partnership between her company and Northern Dynasty Minerals... — Updated 2/24/2008
'Termination dust' prods explorers to wrap up busy exploration season
Even though the concept of global warming is a welcome idea to many companies working in Alaska, its effects are not being felt fast enough to allow companies to complete all of the work they had... — Updated 9/30/2007 Full story
Coal miner's daughter sings his praises
Not all parents are sure that their kids appreciate them. But when they follow you into the family business and one of them writes an article describing you as a role model and all-around great guy, you can relax with a beer, put your feet up and... — Updated 8/26/2007
Alaska aims to change coal mining rules
After several years of revision, Alaska is closing in on the goal of bringing its surface coal mining regulations in line with federal rules governing the same activities. The Alaska Department of Natural Resources says changes are necessary to... — Updated 4/29/2007
Alaska mining news summary: Exploration programs begin; trials, tribulations continue
The trials and tribulations of Alaska's mining industry continued in the last month with one challenged mine given the green light to proceed, the other halted in midstride by the same legal... — Updated 3/25/2007
Industry opposes Alaska mining tax reform
Should the mining industry's tax rate in Alaska be compared with that of the much larger oil and gas industry, because they both deal with non-renewable resources, or is it fairer to align mining with industries like fishing and tourism, which... — Updated 3/25/2007 Full story
Mining and the Law: Northwestern miners gather at Reno convention
During the first full week in December approximately 1,800 miners and members of support industries met in Reno for the Northwest Mining Association's annual convention. The convention was character... — Updated 12/24/2006
Alaska's only operational coal mine, Usibelli is a third-generation family business
Q. Where is Usibelli Coal Mine located? A. It is located in Healy, Alaska, at mile 249 of the Parks Highway in the Alaska Mountain Range. The headquarters and maintenance shop complex is a three-story building on mine property situated east of the... — Updated 12/24/2006
Governor Palin ready for mining education
Alaska's governor-elect, Republican Sarah Palin, made the annual miners' convention in Anchorage the venue for her first official engagement after the election, promising to listen to the industry as she selects her advisors. Palin's predecessor,... — Updated 11/26/2006
Alaska pops its news cork: New mine being built, Donlin bumped to 32.7M ounces, lawsuits, more
By most years' standards, the last month has been a barn burner for mining news. By 2006 standards it hardly measures on the Mining Industry Care-O-Meter, a highly subjective, totally unscientific measurement of what is happening in Alaska's... — Updated 9/24/2006
Usibelli ships coal to Chilean power plant
The Usibelli coal mine in Healy, Alaska, is shipping coal to a power plant in Mejillones, Chile. The panamax vessel MV Coral Sapphire departed Seward Aug. 18 loaded with 73,000 metric tons of Alaska coal. There is an option for the customer to orde... — Updated 9/24/2006 Full story
Seward weighs coal, other power sources
City officials in Seward are entertaining the idea of using coal to fuel an electricity generation plant in the Southcentral Alaska coastal town. But Seward's city council is also investigating the merits of tidal waves and wind and other possible... — Updated 7/30/2006
Mining industry hit with high tire prices
A worldwide shortage of industrial tires is pushing up costs for Alaska's mining industry, just as soaring metal prices are fueling the sector's resurgence. The fast-growing economies of China and India combined with demand from the U.S. military... — Updated 4/23/2006
Usibelli starts Jumbo Dome permitting
Usibelli Coal Mine Inc. has seen the future, and the future - its Jumbo Dome project - is bigger and better than anything the company has mined in the past, says Steve Denton, Usibelli vice president of business development. Jumbo Dome promises to... — Updated 3/26/2006 Full story
Stiles: Alaska coal competes with gas
Alaska's main rival in the international coal market is Indonesia, developer and rocket scientist Bob Stiles told an Anchorage audience at a myth-busting session Feb. 3. Stiles' goal in speaking to the World Affairs Council was to put to rest... — Updated 2/26/2006 Full story
Menge: Issues ground to talcum powder
Pebble copper-gold mine in Alaska's Bristol Bay region is still on the drawing board, but a debate is already raging in the state Legislature over the best way to oversee the project. Although Vancouver-based Northern Dynasty has said it won't... — Updated 2/26/2006
