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The Alaska Supreme Court May 29 ruled that public notices should have been required before the Alaska Department of Natural Resources issued some miscellaneous land-use permits to the Pebble Limited Partnership, overturning a lower court ruling. Land- and water-use permits are needed for mineral exploration drilling in Alaska. The ruling came as a result of a court case in which Nunamta Aulukestai took DNR to court over the lack of public notice prior to issuing permits for ex...
Graphite One Resources Inc. May 29 reported that its wholly owned subsidiary, Graphite One (Alaska) Inc., has executed a definitive long-term lease agreement with Kougarok LLC for 24 unpatented federal mining claims. These, together with adjoining state mining claims already owned by Graphite One collectively make up the Graphite Creek property. The company estimates that more than 90 percent of the 17.95 million metric tons of indicated resources grading 6.3 percent...
Did the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency secretly collaborate with environmental activists to contrive and execute a plan to roadblock the enormous Pebble copper-gold-molybdenum project? This is the question that U. S. District Court Judge H. Russel Holland in Anchorage is trying to answer after hearing May 29 arguments from both sides. The Pebble Limited Partnership alleges that EPA worked behind the scenes with lawyers, scientists, non-governmental agencies and other an...
Seabridge Gold June 1 reported the start of drilling at its KSM copper-gold project in northwestern British Columbia. The primary goal of the program is to determine the potential for a high-grade core zone beneath the known Mitchell deposit. Over the past two years, Seabridge discovered Deep Kerr and the Iron Cap Lower Zone, core zones beneath two other near-surface targets at KSM. "Over the past two years, we have found nearly a billion tonnes of higher grade resources at...
Citing a need to ensure clean drinking water, the Obama administration May 27 unveiled new rules that broadens what is considered the Waters of the United States and, thereby, pushing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Water Act authority further upstream. President Barack Obama said the new measures - which add wetlands and small tributaries to the navigable waters protected under the Clean Water Act - are needed to protect sources of drinking water for some 117...
Rockhaven Resources Ltd. June 1 said the 2015 exploration and engineering program at its Klaza gold-silver project in southern Yukon Territory is underway. The program will include 15,000 meters of drilling focused on expanding and better defining a maiden inferred resource of 7.04 million metric tons averaging 4.19 grams per metric ton (948,348 ounces) gold and 96.23 g/t (21.78 million oz) silver, reported in March. "We are excited to begin our fully-funded 2015 program...
North American Tungsten Corporation Ltd. June 1 reported a series of temporary layoffs of employees at the Cantung mine in western Northwest Territories over a six-week period of time. The company said depressed tungsten prices have had a significant negative impact on operating results during 2015 and operating results have been negatively impacted by a number of operational issues over the past month, the most significant being a power supply issue over the past five days...
Teck Resources Ltd. May 28 reported plans to temporarily shut down six Canadian steelmaking coal operations in order to align production and inventories with changing coal market conditions. "Rather than push incremental tonnes into an over-supplied market, we are taking a disciplined approach to managing our mine production in line with market conditions," explained Teck President and CEO Don Lindsay. Each of Teck's steelmaking coal operations will be shut down for about...
