TABLE OF CONTENTS
2 Executive
Director’s Report
4 Letter from
Our President 10 UAF Mining School Evolving 14 What to Expect From Legislature 16 Faces of Mining: Jan Hill 20 Coeur Donates $300K to UAS 22 Meet Your New AMA Board 34 Alaska Center Stage at AEMA 46 Mining Business and Service Directory
ON THE COVER: Kinross Alaska celebrated the first pour of gold
from the new Gil Mine last fall. Gil is a satellite of Fort Knox and ore will be trucked to the Fort Knox for processing, reflecting another mining success story Photo courtesy Kinross Alaska THIS PAGE: Jayden Duny from Marshall, Alaska is a mechanic working for Donlin Gold, here at the summer drill camp of the Donlin Project in 2021. NovaGold and Barrick are developing the Donlin project, which could create hundreds of high paying jobs in Southwest Alaska. Photo courtesy NovaGold
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
Spring 2022 Project Updates Summer 2022 People in Mining
Executive Director
Deantha Skibinski Jennifer Luiten Darlene Strickland
Membership and Fundraising Director
Fall 2022 Annual Anchorage Convention Winter 2022 Legislative and Season Preview
Bookkeeping and Membership
EXECUTIVE BOARD
BRANCH CHAIRMEN
Bartly Kleven President, Kinross Alaska, Fairbanks Lorali Simon First Vice President, Usibelli Coal Mine, Healy Blake Bogart Second Vice President, Graphite One Inc., Nome Kim Aasand Treasurer, Aasand & Glore LLC., Anchorage
Ted Hawley Anchorage Richard Sivils Denali Ken Hall Fairbanks Liz Cornejo Haines Jim Clark Juneau
Houston Morris Kenai Ken Hughes Nome Robert Fithian Ketchikan/
Prince of Wales
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