North of 60 Mining News - The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North

Global demand for thermal coal is forecast to rise by 170 million tons a year by 2015, a niche PacRim Coal would like to help fill with the 300 million tons of ultra-low-sulfur, sub-bituminous coal sitting near tidewater at its Chuitna coal project on the west side of Cook Inlet in Southcentral Alaska.

Chuitna was originally evaluated through an environmental impact statement and nearly permitt...