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“Equal Treatment” In January 1980, acting executive director How- ard Grey warned in a Miner editorial of the threats posed by “The California Wilderness Act of 1979.” But it was Alaska, not California, most impacted by that legislation, he wrote. “The proposed with- drawals will be somewhere between 32% and 41% of our land area…with no access except by aircraft. Very simply, this means the populace…will never obtain any real use or enjoyment from the with- drawals. More importantly, the proposed withdraw- als contain abundant oil, gas, coal and metallic and non-metallic mineral deposits, which our nation is now critically in need of.” Grey had taken over the reins of AMA upon the resignation of Chuck Hawley to spend more time on his family business and at the request of then president J.P. Tangen. New Technology The May 1981 Miner included details from Dr. Jan Cannon of the University of Alaska Anchorage School of Mineral Industry on using new technolo- gy—aerial photography—to improve mineral pros- pecting and exploration. In addition to traditional MWLNVLYObST_P[SZ_Z^SPZʬP]POMZ_SNZWZ]LYO TYQ]L]PO [SZ_ZR]L[Sd L^ XZ]P PʬPN_TaP _ZZW^ QZ] prospectors. “I am not so naïve as to tell a prospec-
Watt Watt The September 1981 cover featured a full-page photo of a grinning Secretary of the Interior, hold- ing a bumper sticker with the slogan: “WATT—An Answer, Not a Question”. Will he? Many Miner covers in the 1980s included art- work or political cartoons, often drawn by Rosalyn Stowell. The cover of the April 1986, for example, featured a toddler sifting through a pan of gravel, under the headline “Will He Have A Future In Min- ing?” That same cover announced: “90% Growth in U.S. Gold Mine Production Expected.” Coeur and Kensington The December 1991 issue featured recognition ZQ .ZP`] Oɪ,WPYP 8TYP^ L^ _SP ʭ]^_ bTYYP] ZQ _SP Dupont/Conoco Environmental Leadership Award, based on company-wide attitude regarding envi- ronmental awareness. That story also mentioned Coeur was in the permitting process for the Kens- ington Joint Venture Gold Project in Southeast Alas- ka. After decades of opposition, that mine opened in June 2009 — 18 years later.
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