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Alaska Miners Association March 12 announced that due to health risks associated with COVID-19, it is cancelling the AMA spring biennial mining conference that was scheduled to be held in Fairbanks from March 30 through April 4. "We are deeply disappointed that the event cannot be held as planned. However, the World Health Organization has officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic and the state of Alaska has declared a state of emergency. As an industry that holds health and...
Crashing markets, quarantines, closed offices and cancelled events are reverberating across the North of 60 Mining sector in the wake of the World Health Organization declaring the coronavirus strain officially known as COVID-19 a global pandemic. At first, the effects of COVID-19 on mining in Alaska and across Canada's North was being felt mainly by the precipitous drop in the share price of mining companies doing business here – a plunge that is being further fueled by a S...
