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
Deantha Skibinski, Executive Director
Executive Board Bartly Kleven, President Lorali Simon, First Vice President Blake Bogart, Second Vice President Kim Aasand, Treasurer
Branch Chairmen Ted Hawley, Anchorage
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