MINING NEWS: Alaska mining news summary: Tight personnel, equipment market in busy mining industry

The author Curt Freeman, CPG #6901, is a well-known geologist who lives in Fairbanks. He prepared this column Feb. 18. Freeman can be reached by mail at P.O. Box 80268, Fairbanks, AK 99708. His work phone number at Avalon Development is (907) 457-5159 and his fax is (907) 455-8069. His email is avalon@alaska.net and his web site is www.avalonalaska.com.

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 Cordilleran Roundup mining conference, an annual barometer of mining activity in western North America if n....

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