THE ALASKA MINER JOURNAL: The publication is member-only news mailed to AMA members, eight times a year, in months when the Magazine is not published. The Alaska Miner Journal is dedicated to those who work in and support the mining industry in Alaska, its commitment to the people, and the resources of our state. Our goal is to disseminate information on responsible mineral development, educating the public about the value of mining, providing information for our membership and the general public, providing policymakers the information they need to understand the mining industry and monitor political and regulatory processes affecting mining in Alaska.
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Alaska can responsibly produce enough energy to meet the needs of the U.S. and those of the world while weakening Russia — but only if Washington allows it to happen. Read more on Page 3. Battle on Two Fronts
American Security Depends on a Strong Domestic Mining Industry
By The Publisher Alaska miners have a reputation for staying the course despite challenges, headwinds and difficulties. Which is a good thing, given the way 2022 is beginning after two years of disruption and chaos from a worldwide pandemic and an abrupt reversal in Federal policies that could put the brakes on several years of progress in Alaska mining projects. And we thought 2021 was a year of disruption. Let’s take stock. As this goes to press, the Russian invasion of Ukraine is grinding into a nightmare of urban warfare, civilian casualties and millions of refugees. It is also a shock to the world economy, supply chain, financial markets and national loyalties unlike we’ve seen in two generations, if ever. The immediate impact on Alaskans in general, and miners in particular, is the dramatic rise in the cost of fuel. We are wishing we were paying as little as the national average of $4 or so for regular gas and $5 for diesel. How long that will continue remains to be seen, but expect everything from airplane tickets to produce to cost more, with an ever bigger hit to mining bottom lines, where costs like that are impossible to absorb or pass along. If there’s any hope in such a catastrophic worldwide tragedy, it is that finally, perhaps, America in general and leadership in Washington in particular will wake up and not just understand but embrace the critical need for the United States to be self-sufficient in critical minerals. Just as we need to be self-sufficient in energy, food and just about everything else that keeps our economy and democracy strong. Yet this is not understood by most Americans — whether you wish to assign blame to a generational desire for cheap consumer goods, driven and fed by outsourcing manufacturing to the Pacific Rim, or a naïve inability to understand that responsible resource development is not just possible, but essential. Those of use who were driving in the 1970s remember the wakeup call that came with the Arab oil embargo, when gas tripled in weeks (to $.99) and provided the national commitment to build the Trans Alaska Pipeline. We can only dream that our current situation will give birth to the same national commitment to critical mineral independence. What is clear is that there are real-world tyrants who will gladly invade, seize and conquer other free nations and peoples. This is nothing new, but what is very clear is our United States security, indeed freedom, is dependent on technology and resources we don’t control because we
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aren’t allowed to produce it here. Which is all the more puzzling given the Biden Administration’s double talk, even in the face of this crisis. In a single day last month, the Administration was claiming a commitment to building domestic mining of critical minerals, while on the same day announcing a litany of new restrictions to block the Ambler Project, while making all mining unprofitable, shackled with new regulations and a whole new bureaucracy. Even more troubling is the administration’s commitment that some places will never be developed, never be mined, always be locked up. Sounds like Alaska, doesn’t it? Even to outsiders, this doesn’t make sense. To those working and living in the mining industry, it’s hard not to be discouraged or to wonder if our biggest threat is in or out of the country. So, what we can do, is what we’ve always done — press forward, work together, build and protect our resources — and tell the truth about the critical value of the work we do as Alaska miners. And pray that truth and common sense will prevail. In a decision that adds new uncertainty for development of high-grade copper deposits in northwest Alaska, the U.S. Department of the Interior filed a motion in February to remand the Final Environmental Impact Statement, or FEIS, and suspend right-of-way permits issued across federal lands to the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority for the Ambler Access Project.
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A Message from the Executive Director
Dear Alaska Miners, Members, Supporters and Friends:
with 80 percent of our readers outside the mining industry. Thankfully, several of our branches are now meeting in person. And our zoom call attendance continues to, well, Zoom! Often, we are seeing more than one hundred miners and interested visitors on our statewide zoom calls. It is just one tool to keep connected, and yes, keep telling our story. I am immensely proud to say that we have the most engaged, active, committed membership of any organization I have ever seen or worked with. We cherish every call, every meeting, every chance to share a cup of coffee or a story. But here is the challenge I would offer for you and all our friends in the business. Help us tell our story. Share it with your friends, your elected representatives, your customers and vendors, your family. Forward our emails. Share our magazines (it is easy with the online edition). Invite friends to our Zoom meetings. When you hear misinformed friends talking incorrectly about Alaska mining, take a moment to respectfully tell them our story. Need a story to share? We have four years of past issues of the Journal and the Alaska Miner magazine online at AlaskaMiners.org. There are thousands of pages of our stories to share and tell. We are living in a challenging, evolving, war-torn world and the only certainty is that we can count on each other. We like to say that Alaska is blessed with good rocks. We are also blessed with good miners, and we just need to keep telling the rest of the world that. Thanks for your support! And thanks for telling our story!
Please tell our story! If there is one recurring theme, we hear again and again this year, it is that we need to tell our complete and positive stories of mining in Alaska more, better, further.
As individual miners and mining companies and support industries, we tend to be humble. We do not brag and we for good reasons often keep quiet. But the world we live in today demands that we speak up, that we share compelling and complete information about the critical work we do, for the good of our state and our country. It is a good story:
n Alaska mining is the most precise, monitored, careful, clean, responsible mining in the world. n Mining pays back to the state and local governments almost $200 million a year. n Almost 10,000 Alaskans work in mining, earning more than $115,000 a year. n Alaska can produce the critical minerals needed for every renewable and green energy source planned for the future. And that include the key components of communication and military tools to keep America safe. Our challenges and challengers can come from anywhere. This monthly we saw attacks on mining from both the White House and a local Alaska assembly. We use every tool within our means to keep you informed, while also trying to educate those outside our industry. We now use every digital platform from our website AlaskaMiners.org, to social media, to our weekly email news updates. This expanded Alaska Miner Journal you are reading is one example of what we are trying to do. The Journal is celebrating its 50th year as the official voice of AMA, and it has come a long way both in print and online. Our Alaska Miner quarterly magazine, now in its fifth year, goes statewide and worldwide
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Alaska Trade Groups Speak Together to Support Alaska Mining
state levels here in Alaska,” said RDC Executive Director Leila Kimbrell. “This new working group will only increase our import dependence and make supply chain issues even worse. In addition, today’s news about Ambler’s delay is especially troubling because it is another example of states’ rights being disregarded and politics being inserted into the process.” “Our mission at AGC is to build Alaska, not China,” said Alicia Amberg, Associated General Contractors of Alaska’s executive director. “Unfortunately, the only ones who benefit from today’s Ambler decision are foreign adversaries who take advantage of bad policies and twist them to their benefit. My members want to build the new infrastructure Alaska needs, including roads. We want those jobs, and we want the opportunities new mines located along the Ambler Access Project would provide to Alaskans. Today’s announcement is an unwelcome and unnecessary setback.” The Ambler Access Project is a proposed 211-mile, controlled industrial access road that would provide access to the Ambler Mining District in northwestern Alaska. The area is a large prospective copper-zinc mineral with extensive deposits of critical minerals and other elements. About the Associations AMA is a professional membership trade organization established in 1939 to represent the mining industry in Alaska. AMA’s more than 1,400 members come from eight statewide branches: Anchorage, Denali, Fairbanks, Haines, Juneau, Kenai, Ketchikan/Prince of Wales,
and Nome. Alaska’s miners are individual prospectors, geologists, engineers, suction dredge miners, small family mines, junior mining companies, major mining companies, Alaska Native Corporations, and the contracting sector that supports Alaska’s mining industry. The Alaska Chamber is a nonprofit founded in 1953 working to promote a positive business environment in Alaska. The Chamber is the voice of small and large business representing more than 700 businesses, manufacturers, and local chambers across Alaska. Our member companies employ more than 55,000 hard- working Alaskans. The Alaska Support Industry Alliance promotes responsible exploration, development and production of oil, gas, and mineral resources for the benefit of all Alaskans. It represents more than 500 businesses who provide support to the oil and gas and mining industries. Associated General Contractors of Alaska is the construction industry’s largest professional trade association, representing over 600 general and specialty contractors and industry suppliers/service providers statewide. The Resource Development Council for Alaska is an Alaska trade association with members in fishing, forestry, mining, oil and gas, and tourism, as well as the 12 regional Native corporations, labor, individuals, and others supporting the responsible development of Alaska’s natural resources. More information is available at akrdc.org.
In February, leaders to Alaska’s five largest trade associations spoke up with one voice to oppose the direction of Federal added restrictions on mining in Alaska. The Alaska Miners Association, with the Alaska Chamber, the Alaska Support Industry Alliance, the Associated General Contractors of Alaska, and the Resource Development Council for Alaska voiced frustration with announcements signaling an incoherent federal approach to domestic minerals development. The reaction comes after the Biden Administration announced plans to convene a new working group that will make regulatory recommendations for domestic mining, and the U.S. Interior Department slowed the approval process for the Ambler Access Project on the same day. The frustration felt by business advocacy groups is rooted in the reality that Alaska can help solve problems caused by domestic mineral scarcity and supply chain logjams. “On one hand, you have the Biden Administration saying, ‘we want to produce more critical minerals here in the U.S.,’ but then they deliberately bring domestic mining projects here in Alaska to a crawl,” said Deantha Skibinski, executive director at the Alaska Miners Association. “It makes no sense, and will empower mining powerhouses like China, which already produces
87% of the minerals needed for renewable energy products. This policy defies logic.” “My members would love to help responsible mining companies safely develop the vast mineral deposits located across Alaska,” said Kati Capozzi, Alaska Chamber president and CEO. “The jobs and economic growth Alaska miss out on by pushing these opportunities overseas is irresponsible and shortsighted, and a loss for hardworking Alaskans at a time when we most need economic opportunity.” “Today, we saw the Biden Administration announce that ‘as a new minerals economy was being built in the U.S., it would be built around working Americans,’” said Rebecca Logan, CEO of the Alaska Support Industry Alliance. “A same-day action to delay the Ambler Project is insulting. We cannot meet demand for the minerals we need globally, and we certainly cannot domestically supply minerals through the recycling and reuse of minerals the Biden Administration is prioritizing.” The new federal working group is also certain to make it harder to do business in the U.S. while failing to provide additional environmental protections. “We already operate under strict environmental and financial assurance regulations on both the federal and
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Biden Administration to Radically Overhaul Existing Mining Regulations
3. Prioritize Recycling, Reuse and Efficient Use of Critical Minerals 4. Adopt Fair Royalties So Taxpayers Benefit (Congress should establish a royalty for all minerals extracted from public land) 5. Establish a Fully Funded Hardrock Mine Reclamation Program 6. Conduct Comprehensive Planning (mining should be governed by comprehensive federal land-use assessments and planning) 7. Provide Permitting Certainty (create a new mining law replacing the General Mining Law of 1872) 8. Protect Special Places (Some areas must be off-limits to mining) 9. Solicit Community Input and Conduct Tribal Consultation 10. Utilize the Best Available Science and Data 11. Build Civil Service Expertise in Mining (because Federal agencies have lost mining expertise due to retirements and downsizing) It’s important for AMA members and all miners to be familiar with what’s proposed. The full document is online at: www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/biden-harris- administration-fundamental-principles-for-domestic- mining-reform.pdf
The White House announced plans Feb. 22 to radically overhaul existing mining regulations in the United States. In the document outlining “Biden-Harris Administration Fundamental Principles for Domestic Mining Reform,” the administration restates this goal: “There is a growing need for responsibly sourced critical minerals to meet our climate, infrastructure, and global competitiveness goals. There is no single Federal agency with authority over domestic mining, and the legal framework for mining on Federal public lands was enacted in 1872 — 150 years ago — and does not provide for royalties or a comprehensive system to evaluate, permit, develop and reclaim mines. As the Biden-Harris Administration advances its critical minerals strategy, including expanding domestic production in a timely manner, we must ensure that our actions are conducted with strong environmental, sustainability, safety, Tribal consultation and community engagement standards so that the American public has confidence that the minerals and materials used in our electric vehicles, smartphones, solar panels and other technology are sourced under responsible social, environmental and labor standards and that the Administration wisely stewards our shared natural resources for Americans today and future generations.” That announcement defined several steps: 1. Establish Strong Responsible Mining Standards 2. Secure a Sustainable Domestic Supply of Critical Minerals
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Alaska Minerals Commission Highlights 2022 Priorities
The Alaska Minerals Commission recently released its 2022 report of Alaska Mineral Priorities. The 11-member Commission (AMC) serves in an advisory capacity to the Governor and the Alaska State Legislature. Five members are appointed by the Governor (one of whom must reside in a rural community), three members are appointed by the President of the Senate, and three members are appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. The Commission’s role is to recommend strategies to mitigate constraints on mineral development in Alaska. For more than 30 years, the AMC has worked with the State of Alaska and the Alaska State Legislature to successfully implement key recommendations that support a strong and sustainable Alaska minerals industry. This report builds upon past work with the intent to identify state and federal issues that can block responsible development. For 2022, the AMC identified a number of priorities which we are reprint below: Top Priority: Continue to defend and promote the minerals and mining industry in Alaska. Alaska is well-known for its excellent geologic potential. In the past, the State of Alaska’s reputation as a hospitable location for investment has suffered from inconsistent support for mineral resource development by State of Alaska leadership. This changed when Governor Dunleavy, Commissioner Feige, Commissioner Brune, Commissioner Vincent Lang, and Chief Policy Director Huber started attending and promoting Alaska at mining conventions. The AMC wants to give a special thank you to the Governor and the State of Alaska for defending and promoting the minerals and mining industry in Alaska. The Commission encourages the Governor’s administration and the Legislature to continue to work together into the future to ensure industry leaders in the United States and around the world know that mining and minerals development are welcome in Alaska. The clear, concise, and proactive communication to prospectors, family miners, small mining companies, major mining companies, and investors from the Governor’s administration and the Legislature have helped attract the mineral investment needed to develop Alaska’s future mines. Alaska is ranked fifth in the world for overall investment attractiveness by mining and exploration companies based on its geologic attractiveness and government policy towards exploration investment according to the Fraser Institute Annual Survey of Mining Companies in 2020. Alaska was also ranked fifth out of 77 jurisdictions internationally for mineral potential, assuming a “best practices” policy regime.
Increased investment in minerals exploration and mining is essential to diversify the State of Alaska’s economic underpinnings. While “more than 190 million acres of federal, State of Alaska and Native-owned lands are open for minerals-related activities and mining,” the existence of a resource isn’t compelling enough on its own to bring outside business to Alaska. Attracting investment requires companies to have faith in the State of Alaska’s economic stability, reasonable regulatory environment, and ongoing support of the minerals industry at the highest levels of government. Recommendations: The Alaska Minerals Commission recommends the Governor’s administration and the Legislature continue to create a shared message to minerals and mining companies that investment in, and development of, Alaska’s mineral resources are welcome. The Commission further recommends continued and increasing levels of outreach by the Alaska Department of Natural Resources Commissioner and the Governor’s administration to major mining companies and industry associations, defining the advantages of investing and exploring in Alaska and inviting these companies to explore and develop in the State of Alaska State Priorities: 1) Predictability of the State of Alaska permitting timeframes 2) Reallocate portions of the State of Alaska mining license tax to communities, while precluding targeted local severance taxes 3) Address key State of Alaska regulations governing water use 4) Support the Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys 5) Modernize the online mineral claim staking and claim management system 6) Encourage the Governor’s administration to continue challenging ballot initiatives that seek to regulate natural resource development Federal Priorities: 1) Industry must have a clear path to wetland compensatory mitigation requirements 2) Advocate for a consistent definition of Waters of the United States (WOTUS) - 2021 3) Defend against federal overreach The complete report is available online at www. commerce.alaska.gov/web/Portals/4/pub/Alaska%20 Minerals%20Commission/2021%20Alaska%20 Minerals%20Commision%20Report%2020211229.pdf
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Let Alaska Sell American Energy to the World
Will President Biden Allow Us To Do So?
to state and federal coffers, funding development in Alaska’s native communities, and contributing to U.S. national security. Because energy markets are global, oil produced on the North Slope has helped power the world. Alaskans have done all of this while protecting our lands and waters. Alaska’s North Slope — the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, or NPR-A — has the same potential. Roughly the size of Indiana, the NPR-A was set aside in 1923 by President Warren Harding for oil production in case of emergency. The site contains billon of barrels of oil. Invigorated by the previous administration, which encouraged increased domestic production, investments were flowing into projects on the North Slope. It looked as though Alaskans, Americans and the world would soon benefit. But then came the Biden Administration, galvanized by extreme environmentalists whose goal is to shut down oil production. The opportunity was lost. Strict environmental standards mean that unlike other places in the country, the drilling season in Alaska is short, and timely permits are essential. The Biden administration has consistently delayed those permits, taking off the table any hope of
drilling in winter. They have demanded further studies for projects that have been studied to death. They’ve also discouraged financial institutions from investing in the Arctic on both federal and private lands. Reducing carbon emissions is crucial for the planet. Alaska is on the front lines of climate change. That is why Alaskans push tirelessly to ensure that energy companies drilling for oil do so with the most cutting-edge carbon- reducing technology. Before the discovery at Prudhoe Bay — and before Alaska Natives gathered in force to demand rights to their lands and resources — our direct forebears, and the ancestors of many who still live on the North Slope, were among the most impoverished people on the planet. But the Inupiaq culture discourages victimhood and resentment. We are now teachers and doctors. We are whaling captains and city workers. We are no longer one whale hunt away from starvation. We have health care clinics and schools in our communities. Still, our needs are great. Many of our people lack amenities such as running water and access to the internet, which people in the lower 48 states take for granted.
During times of conflict and war indigenous Alaskans have always answered the call to service, even when denied basic civil rights. During World War II and the Cold War, thousands of Alaska natives trained in special programs to serve as scouts and defenders of our state and country. Later, our men and women were sent from our Arctic villages to fight and sometimes die in steamy jungles and barren deserts half a world away. We are a patriotic people, and it’s in our nature to protect and serve what’s ours — our communities, our state, our country, our world. As one nation invades another thousands of miles away from the North Slope of Alaska, as our country is hurting from high energy prices, as the world feels as if it is on the brink of chaos, we are here to help and we are here to serve. Will President Biden allow us to do so? Mr. Brower, a whaling captain, is mayor of Alaska’s North Slope Borough. Mr. Patkotak, an independent, represents District 40 in the Alaska House of Representatives. Editor’s note: This eloquent essay makes the same case for developing Alaska energy resources that we continue to make for developing Alaska minerals.
By Harry Brower Jr. and Josiah Patkotak Reprinted from The Wall Street Journal, March 4 Even as Russian tanks lined up on the Ukrainian border in February, the Biden administration froze U.S. drilling on federal lands and issued rules making it harder to build natural-gas pipelines. We may be Inupiaq Eskimos 5,000 miles away from the Washington policy machine, but we know crazy when we see it. And this is crazy. Big profits from oil and gas exports to Europe and the U.S. are enabling Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Ukraine. Curtailing U.S. energy production forces the world to buy oil and gas from countries like Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, which have abysmal human-rights records, low environmental standards and high carbon emissions. It doesn’t have to be this way. The U.S. can responsibly produce enough energy to meet its own needs and those of the world while weakening Russia — but only if Washington allows it to happen. Prudhoe Bay on the North Slope — one of the biggest oil fields in North America — is on our ancestral lands. Since 1977, Prudhoe Bay has produced more than 18 billion barrels of oil, contributing billions of dollars
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Longtime Alaska Geologist Dave LePain Named New DGGS Director
New State Geologist Takes Over for Retiring Steve Masterman
Longtime Alaska geologist Dave LePain has been named to succeed Steve Masterman as State Geologist and director of the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (DGGS). LePain took over for Masterman on March 1. Masterman is assisting with the leadership transition for the next month and will retire in April after serving as DGGS director and State Geologist for more than eight years. LePain is no stranger to DGGS, having served as the Division’s Energy Resources Section Chief since 2014. A highly experienced geologist, LePain’s work in Alaska has focused on the North Slope, including the northeastern Brooks Range, Cook Inlet and several Interior sedimentary basins. LePain began working for DGGS in 1998 before leaving in 2003 to work at the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, then returning to DGGS in 2006. In 2012, LePain spent a year in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, working for Saudi Aramco before returning, yet again, to DGGS to serve as Petroleum Geologist and Energy Resources Section Chief. “I am thrilled that Dave was willing to step into this role,” said Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Corri Feige. “I think Alaska’s significance in energy and mineral development, and the importance of these SAMPLE ARCHIVE SYSTEM, INC. A Better Way to Handle and Store Your Samples • A proven concept in handling core • Provides a more compact, cost effective, weatherproof method of storing • Constructed of rugged, durable, UV-resistant black high
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Reprinted from Mining.com The copper price hit an all-time high March 4 as traders looked to stock up over fears of further supply-chain disruption. Concerns about supply disruption, historically low global stockpiles and rocketing energy costs have lit a fire under base metals, trumping concerns over the longer- term impact of the Ukraine invasion on global growth, rising interest rates in the developed world and a slowing economy in China. Copper for delivery in May rose on the Comex market in New York, touching a high $4.9490 per pound ($10,910 per tonne), more than 3 percent compared to Thursday’s closing. The bellwether metal is up 10 percent since the Russian invasion of Ukraine little over a week ago. Adding to metal supply fears are falling inventories in LME-registered warehouses. Copper stocks, at 69,825 tonnes, are the lowest since 2005. Base metals rallied across the board with the LMEX Index, which tracks six major contracts, surging to a record high. Nickel briefly tradef above $30,000 a tonne for the first time since 2008. “The market is in a panic mode in terms of supply,” said Gianclaudio Torlizzi, a partner at consultants
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Millrock Resources Looks Ahead to Productive Nikolai Project
Company to Seek Joint Venture Partners in Minerals Exploration
Millrock Resources Inc. has assembled (by staking and an option agreement) an extensive land package in the Delta River Mining District in Alaska. The Nikolai Project (previously known by some as the MAN project) hosts nickel, copper, chromium, cobalt platinum group element (PGE) prospects. The claims show potential for delineation and development of a large tonnage deposit rich in Ni and other critical and strategic metals. “Millrock is very pleased to have generated this nickel-dominant project which also has a variety of accompanying critical and strategic metals,” said Millrock president and CEO Greg Beischer. “Other companies such as Canada Nickel and Group Ten Metals have had strong market success by working on the development of geologically similar metal accumulations. Millrock aims to have similar success with the Nikolai project.” One of the claim blocks covers the highly prospective and underexplored Eureka zone. At this location, a zone of disseminated Ni-Cu-Cr-Co-PGE mineralization was initially discovered by a subsidiary of Inco, and further expanded by Pure Nickel Inc. (TSX-V: NIC; now Galleon Gold Corp. TSX-V: GGO) as reported in their press
releases issued between 2007 and 2014. The claims had become open for staking and Millrock re-staked the land position. Additionally, Millrock has entered into an option agreement on the Canwell claims where very high grades of nickel, copper and platinum group elements, including the rare platinum group metals osmium, iridium, ruthenium, and rhodium are known from historical surface rock sampling and drilling. Millrock’s Nikolai Project now consists of 146 State of Alaska Mining Claims covering 9,454 hectares in a highly prospective, underexplored ultramafic Ni-Cu- PGE mineralized belt. The claims are proximal to paved highways, and a network of gravel roads and trails afford ready access to the Canwell claim block. Fairbanks lies approximately 200 kilometers to the northwest, Delta Junction lies 130 kilometers to the north and Denali Highway lies 150 kilometers to the west. Several deposit types are possible at the Nikolai project. Geologically, the project is located within the underexplored Wrangellia Terrane of Central Alaska. A characteristic component of this terrane is the Nikolai Greenstone, an extensive sequence of Late Triassic
flood basalt rocks. Mafic and ultramafic intrusions, the source for the Nikolai Greenstone, along with Permian and Cretaceous felsic plutons, intruded Permian volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks. Wrangellia holds high potential for the discovery of economic magmatic sulfide deposits containing nickel, copper, cobalt, platinum, palladium, iridium, rhodium, osmium, ruthenium, gold, silver, lead, and zinc. Past producing mines and known deposits within the Wrangellia include Kennecott Copper Mines, Windy Craggy, Wellgreen-Nickel Shaw and White River. At the Eureka claim block, 104 State of Alaska mining claims were staked and are 100 percent owned by Millrock. Previously discovered Ni-Cu-PGE prospects form a northwest trend of soil and rock anomalies that contain elevated nickel, copper, platinum, palladium, and gold. After an initial discovery by Inco Ltd. in 1997, drilling by Pure Nickel Inc. and ITOCHU Corporation between 2008 and 2013 resulted in the discovery of a mineralized corridor called the Eureka Zone. More than 15 kilometers in length, the disseminated Ni-Cu-PGE mineralization
is associated with serpentinized mafic and ultramafic rocks. Based on these historical drill hole results, Millrock has identified a zone of mineralization that contains potentially economic concentrations of nickel, copper, cobalt, platinum, palladium, and gold. At the Canwell claim block, Millrock has entered into an agreement under which it has been granted the option to purchase the Canwell Ni-Cu-PGE project from property owner David Johnson. The property covers 42 State of Alaska mining claims (2,720 hectares). Millrock has reviewed existing data and built a comprehensive exploration plan. The Company will seek joint venture partners to fund exploration and thereby earn an interest in the project. Millrock Resources Inc. is a premier project generator to the mining industry. Millrock identifies, packages, and operates large-scale projects for joint venture, thereby exposing its shareholders to the benefits of mineral discovery without the usual financial risk taken on by most exploration companies. The company is recognized as the premier generative explorer in Alaska.
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