Exploration activity up at Greens Creek

Operators of the Greens Creek polymetallic mine started surface core drilling in late April, the beginning of a summer long program designed to complete 40,000 feet of drilling at several targets surrounding the underground mine near Juneau, Alaska.

The $1.9 million budgeted for surface drilling work this year is the largest surface exploration program at the mine since production began in 1989 at...