MINING NEWS: Mining values set records in 2006 11/25/2007
Higher prices, world-class projects such as Red Dog, Pebble drive Alaska exploration, development, production, employment
Alaska mining activity climbed to new heights in 2006 with the value of exploration, development and production exceeding $3.5 billion. Production values more than doubled, leaping to $2.86 billion fr...

MINING NEWS: Mining News Summary: Noses to the ground as summer exploration season hits full swing 05/27/2007
Alaska's summer exploration season is in full swing with strong budgets on a number of projects around the state. Alaska's mines also weighed in with strong quarterly results as metal prices remain st...

MINING NEWS: Alaska mining news summary: Exploration programs begin; trials, tribulations continue 03/25/2007
The trials and tribulations of Alaska's mining industry continued in the last month with one challenged mine given the green light to proceed, the other halted in midstride by the same legal system. I...

MINING NEWS: Alaska mining news summary: Tight personnel, equipment market in busy mining industry 02/25/2007
Okay, the lull is over. It lasted about 25, maybe 30 minutes, after I wrote those prophetic but ill-considered words in late January! Shortly after that point I was in Vancouver for the annual Cordill...

MINING NEWS: Nixon Fork mine ships first gold doré 02/25/2007
Alaska's newest mine, Nixon Fork, produced its first gold doré in January. The doré is being shipped via Fairbanks to Xstrata's Horne smelter in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec. Mechanical delays which were enc...

MINING NEWS: St. Andrew Goldfields names new president 09/24/2006
A senior executive from Hunter Dickinson, the company that owns Alaska's Pebble prospect, has moved to St. Andrew Goldfields as president and chief operating officer. Keith Minty started his new posi...

MINING NEWS: Mines generate Precision Power contracts 02/26/2006
Anchorage company supplied equipment at short notice for ice roads to Russian project; also working at Pogo and Nixon Fork mines
The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was not the ideal time to be scouring the country for three 3,500-gallon-per-minute pumps, but that's exactly what Anchorage-based Precision Power needed last fall t...

MINING NEWS: Nixon Fork mine receives permits 02/26/2006
Permits from the State of Alaska and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to re-open Nixon Fork gold mine near McGrath have been issued to Ontario-based St. Andrew Goldfields. The permits become effecti...

MINING NEWS: Nixon Fork mine could be small but sweet 11/27/2005
After 2 years of drilling Mystery Creek has defined limited gold reserves but intends to re-establish historic Alaska mine
The sound of drilling can be heard all over Alaska, on old properties as well as new ones. Nixon Fork, 35 miles northeast of McGrath in the Kuskokwim mineral belt, is one of the old ones. It is showin...

MINING NEWS: Native corporations see Pebble's promise 04/24/2005
Lessons learned from Red Dog, Illinois Creek and Nixon Fork mines show shareholders can benefit if training provided, partners chosen wisely
Alaska Native corporations have considerable experience partnering with mining companies and have seen economic benefits for their shareholders from the mining industry. They are also aware of people'...

MINING NEWS: No winter hiatus: 2005 Alaska plans advanced, some already in full swing 02/27/2005
This year's projects include: continuing work at Pogo, start of construction at Rock Creek and Kensington mines, advanced development at Nixon Fork, Donlin Creek and Pebble, and resource drilling at Ambler; metals prices remain strong
December, January and February are normally a time when the mining industry can stop and catch its collective breath, look into its often cloudy but well-used crystal ball and prepare for the coming y...

MINING NEWS: New life for Nixon Fork mine near McGrath 05/09/2004
Mystery Creek Resources drilling at shuttered underground gold-copper mine; permits submitted to restart production late this year
Gold and copper production at the shuttered underground Nixon Fork mine, about 30 miles northeast of McGrath in central Alaska, may restart at the end of 2004. Mystery Creek Resources Inc., a wholly...

MINING NEWS: Drilling in progress at several locations 03/14/2004
Summer season planning proceeding at 'frenetic pace' as demonstrated by short supplies of drill rigs, helicopters and project managers
Alaska's exploration season is well under way with drilling in progress at several locations and planning for the summer season proceeding at a frenetic pace not seen in more than five years. Anyone w...

Despite mining pundits, gold is back 12/07/2003
Nixon Fork resources updated, commercial production rate by the end of 2004
Remember back a few years if you will, to the late 1990s, a time when the mining pundits and financial cognoscenti proclaimed "gold is dead", not for the first time mind you. The same proclamations hi...

Alaska mining activity up in September 10/12/2003
Availability of funding, warm weather, extend exploration across Alaska
Hold on to the reins gang, the pony is about to bolt! September marks a high-water mark for this millennium for mining activity in the Alaska bush. Not since the heady days of the mid-1990s have we se...

Iraqi conflict impacts Alaska mining projects 08/17/2003
The results from summer field work have started to roll in from various projects while second quarter mine production has come in for Red Dog and Greens Creek. Unlike most years, and certainly unlike...

Alaska is in for a wild and wooly ride 04/06/2003
Gold is down but activity up in state's mining sector is way up
Now that hostilities have begun in earnest in Iraq, the premium on the gold spot price attributed to war worries has disappeared and gold has retreated almost $20 per ounce to the $330-340 per ounce l...