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Whether you are involved in the mining industry or not, lifelong Alaskans, at some point or another, have most likely heard the name Usibelli. Perhaps, however, many Alaskans may not be aware that behind the Usibelli Coal Mine is the Usibelli family – owners and operators of the largest coal mine in Alaska. Yet before a titan of Alaskan industry was born, generations of sweat, elbow grease, and raw determination was needed before the name Usibelli would be known. Built from f...
The global transition to low-carbon energy and transportation is both an incredible opportunity and daunting challenge for Alaska's mining sector. On the one hand, Alaska is incredibly enriched with the minerals and metals required to build electric vehicles, solar panels, wind farms, and other clean energy technologies. On the other, America's Last Frontier is burdened by a lack of affordable, low-carbon energy options in the remote reaches of the state where many of these...
Recently, the Environmental Protection Agency, citing section 404(c) of the Clean Water Act, announced its intention to prohibit the use of the Bristol Bay watershed for discharging dredged or fill material from the Pebble Project. Both of our Senators issued statements giving qualified support for the proposed decision. Senator Murkowski, however, took the position that she has "never supported a blanket, preemptive approach for any project" recognizing "that this could be...
Benchmark Metals Inc. May 31 announced the signing of a new agreement with the Tahltan Central Government that establishes processes that allow the Tahltan First Nation to engage and benefit from Benchmark's exploration of the Lawyers gold-silver project in Northern British Columbia. The roughly 96,000-square-kilometer (37,000 square miles) Tahltan Territory, which covers approximately 70% of the Golden Triangle region of northwestern BC, extends east to the north-central...
Eskay Mining Corp. June 1 launched a 30,000-meter drill program at the company's Consolidated Eskay gold-silver project in Northern British Columbia. "2022 brings the most aggressive drill campaign ever undertaken at the Consolidated Eskay VMS Project," said Quinton Hennigh, a technical advisor and director of Eskay Mining. Covering a corridor of volcanogenic massive sulfide gold mineralization trending south from Skeena Resources Ltd.'s Eskay Creek gold-silver project, and...
Cassiar Gold Corp. June 1 announced the start of a 20,000-meter drill program on its namesake gold property in Northern British Columbia. Located about 55 miles (90 kilometers) southwest of Watson Lake, Yukon, the 145,800-acre (59,000 hectares) Cassiar gold property is divided into two areas – Cassiar North, which hosts the bulk tonnage Taurus gold deposit, and Cassiar South, which hosts multiple high-grade gold targets. Roughly half of this year's drilling will be drilled in...
HighGold Mining Inc. May 31 announced plans for a US$9 million exploration program at Johnson Tract that will include at least 13,000 meters of drilling to expand upon known polymetallic gold deposits and targets, and test for new discoveries across the 20,942-acre property in Southcentral Alaska. According to a calculation completed prior to the start of 2020 drilling, the JT deposit hosts 2.14 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 6.07 grams per metric ton...
Graphite One Inc. June 1 named mining veteran Mike Schaffner as senior vice president, mining of its Alaska subsidiary, Graphite One (Alaska) Inc., effective July 1. "I'm excited to join the Graphite One team as the company moves into its next phase of development," Schaffner said. "I've been involved at every stage in the development process, from design to start-up, into operation and closure. I'm ready to help the team realize G1's tremendous potential of becoming...
American West Metals Ltd., a junior led by two mining industry veterans from Australia, has returned to the Arctic this year for a second field season in pursuit of rich deposits at the Storm Copper project on Somerset Island in northeastern Nunavut. Storm hosts a 120-kilometer (75 miles) mineralized trend within an extensive 4,145-square-kilometer (1,600 square miles) land package that covers multiple copper and zinc geochemical anomalies along strike. In March 2021,...
Following the Environmental Protection Agency's revised "proposed determination" for the Pebble mine, Alaska policymakers came out in both scathing and measured statements regarding the possible precedent such preemptive veto might bring to future resource development in the state and country. "Mining provides some of the best paying jobs in the state," said Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy. "Jobs that have never been needed more for Alaskan families to survive record price...
