MINING NEWS: Claim staking rush surrounds Pebble

Three companies stake more than 300 square miles of state land in December in three major blocks near gold-copper deposit

Patricia Jones

Mining News editor

Three exploration companies independently and secretively launched major land staking efforts in December, laying claim to more than 300 square miles of state land surrounding the Pebble gold-copper-molybdenum deposit in southwest Alaska. Characteristics of such large, multiple-porphyry deposits an....

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