The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
Operating gold mines face depletion of resources if current poor exploration success rate continues with little or no improvement
A recent article in the Newsletter of the Society of Economic Geologists discussed ways of addressing an arresting trend in the mining industry that affects Alaska's mining future.
Authors N. Stephen Enders of the Colorado School of Mines and Cliff Saunders of Too Serious Unlimited, showed that the discovery rate for gold has been dropping steadily since 1999, while the gold mined by operating min...
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