TABLE OF CONTENTS
2 Executive Director’s Report 4 Letter from President Mike Satre 8 Update from Alaska Legislative Session 12 Relief for small miners 16 Faces in Mining: Senator and miner Click Bishop 18 Pebble EIS moves on 22 Pete Kaiser claims Iditarod title 34 Success in restoring ǻWLIVMIW 44 Mining Business and Service Directory 58 2019 Issues of Concern 60 Coming Events
8LISǽGMEPQEKE^MRISJXLI Alaska Miners Association and the mining industry in Alaska
ON THE COVER: Alaskan John Sturgeon won a unanimous 9-0 verdict from the U.S. Supreme Court, forging not just that John can travel the Nation River via his hovercraft, but that it is the State of Alaska and not Federal authorities that have control of Alaska navigable waterways. It’s a decision XLEXGSRǻVQW&PEWOEƶWYRMUYIWXERHMRK MRVIWSYVGIQEREKIQIRXERHWSPMHMǻIW mandates set out in ANILCA. See more of Sturgeon’s 11-year battle to win the case inside. Photo courtesy John Sturgeon
THIS PAGE: Jessie Pasma, Operator Truck Driver, with one of the larger trucks at the Kinross Fort Knox Mine. Photo Kinross
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EDITORIAL CALENDAR
ALASKA MINERS ASSOCIATION STAFF
July 2019 AMA 80th Anniversary October 2019 Anchorage Convention 2019 January 2020 Legislative and Season Preview April 2020 Project Updates
Executive Director
Deantha Crockett Jennifer Luiten Darlene Strickland
Membership and Fundraising Director
Bookkeeping and Membership
Projects Manager
Laci Michaud
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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April 2019
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