Second platinum explorer at Goodnews Bay
U.S. subsidiary of United Kingdom building supplies conglomerate seeks to explore state lands for gray metal
Last updated 6/25/2006 at Noon
Hanson Industries Inc., the Spokane, Wash.-based development company, has asked the State of Alaska for permission to explore areas of the historic Goodnews Bay Platinum Mine, which it has owned since 1980.
The move comes in the wake of rapidly soaring prices for the rare metal, and coincides with an exploration program being undertaken in the same mining district by Pacific North West Capital...
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