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Facebook postA Black Gold ore-hauling truck wrecked Friday on a stretch of the Richardson Highway just south of Birch Lake. No one was injured, but traffic was backed-up in both directions for about an hour while the truck was pulled out of a ditch. -
Black Gold TransportUpdated: A Salcha man was was killed this morning when the vehicle he was driving was struck by a double-trailer gold-ore hauling truck on the Richardson Highway south of Eielson Air Force Base.
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The public is invited to comment on the Ambler Road Draft Supplemental EIS at an in-person hearing on Thursday evening. -
Doyon, Limited will end an access agreement with the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority for the Ambler Road, unless AIDEA pays off an old debt from another project. -
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.
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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.
