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Denise Sanborn Brown/video screenshotAlaska State Troopers say traffic was slowed and restricted for two hours Sunday through a stretch of the Richardson Highway north of Delta Junction after Manh Choh mine ore haul trucks backed up on Tenderfoot Hill in slippery conditions. Five other ore trucks stopped on both sides of the hill and waited for help. -
Alaska Energy MetalsAlaska Energy Metals executives met with Delta Junction-area residents Monday to talk about a nickel deposit the company is exploring near Paxson. They say the Nikolai Project could become an important source of the metal essential to manufacturing green energy products like wind generators and electric-vehicle batteries.
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The public comment period for the Ambler Road Draft Supplemental EIS opened on Friday, October 20. The public now has 60 days to comment on the 211-mile mining road. -
The citizen committee set up to analyze the highway corridor between the Mahn Choh gold mine in Tetlin and the Fort Knox mill talked about highway bridges again Thursday, Oct. 12. -
Federal mine-safety regulators have cited the owners of the Red Dog mine for 13 violations that agency inspectors found at the mine in August. But agency officials say Teck Alaska has addressed the violations at the zinc mine near Kotzebue. -
The company that owns the Pogo gold mine north of Delta Junction is seeking to renew a state permit that allows it to discharge processed waste into a nearby river. -
NewsThe federal Environmental Protection Agency has fined the owner of the Pogo gold mine $600,000 for improperly storing, treating and disposing of nearly 365,000 tons of hazardous materials into the mine near Delta Junction. -
A discussion of the role of modern mining exploration and operations in the Fairbanks North Star Borough. -
A reconsidered resolution about a gold ore trucking plan was toned-down considerably last week by the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly. The Assembly passed a resolution March 9 to oppose the plan to bring ore on heavy trucks 240 miles up the Richardson Highway from the Manh Choh mine in Tetlin. But one member who voted for it then, moved to look at it again.
