TABLE OF CONTENTS
2 Executive Director’s Report 4 Letter from President Mike Satre 6 DOI releases 1.3 million acres 8 Update from Alaska Legislative Session 12 Celebrating 80 Years! 16 Faces in Mining: Nome’s Blake Bogart 2IQFIV5VSǻPIW 29 2019 Economic Impact of Alaska 38 Project Updates 44 Mining Business and Service Directory 56 Join us at the fair 60 Coming Events
8LISǽGMEPQEKE^MRISJXLI Alaska Miners Association and the mining industry in Alaska
ON THE COVER: August marks the 80th Anniversary of the Alaska Miners Association and our work defending the Alaska QMRMRKMRHYWXV]4YVGSZIVVIǼIGXW the continuing evolution of our industry forward with new projects like Donlin and from our history of miners like this one working a sluice box on Nome’s beach during the 19th century. Photo courtesy Donlin Gold
THIS PAGE: Ryan Vredenburg installs a microwave link between the mill and site data center at the Coeur Alaska Kensington Mine. Vredenburg is the Network Administrator at the Coeur Alaska Kensington Mine. He maintains and secures the internal and external networks that connect users to each other and the outside world. Photo courtesy of Josh Rupp
The Alaska Miner is dedicated to those who work in and support the mining industry in Alaska, its commitment to the people, and resources of our state. Our magazine is published quarterly and delivered to both the members of the Alaska Miners Association and to key decision makers and leaders in Alaska and beyond. Our goal is to educate, advocate and lead our industry as one of the strongest, oldest and most productive corporate citizens in Alaska. AMA’s mission is to promote responsible mineral development in Alaska.
EDITORIAL CALENDAR
ALASKA MINERS ASSOCIATION STAFF
October 2019 Anchorage Convention 2019 January 2020 Legislative and Season Preview
Executive Director
Deantha Crockett Jennifer Luiten
Membership and Fundraising Director
April 2020 Project Updates July 2020 People in Mining
Projects Manager
Laci Michaud
Bookkeeping and Membership
Darlene Strickland
EXECUTIVE BOARD
BRANCH CHAIRMEN
Mike Satre President, Hecla Greens Creek Mining Co., Juneau 'MPP/IǺVIWW First Vice President, SRK Consulting, Anchorage Bartly Kleven Second Vice President, Kinross–Fort Knox, Fairbanks Kim Aasand Treasurer, Aasand & Glore LLC., Anchorage
/MQ)YǽIPH Kenai Blake Bogart Nome Andrew Spokely Ketchikan/
Ted Hawley Anchorage Roger Speer Denali Anna Atchison Fairbanks James Sage Haines Frank Bergstrom Juneau
Prince of Wales
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July 2019
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