TABLE OF CONTENTS
2 Executive
Director’s Report
4 Letter from
Our President 8 Roadless Rule
Slams Doors Again 10 Alaska Sues Biden Over Shutdown 16 Faces of Mining: Construction
The official magazine of the Alaska Miners Association and the mining industry in Alaska
Machinery Industrial 18 Remembering Deryl Box 22 Thanks.
ON THE COVER: It’s a busy summer for Alaska miners and mining companies who never stopped working throughout the last year’s pandemic and now busier than ever with higher production and new projects moving forward. On our cover, Shannon Wasuli from Noatak is one of the Ambler Metals team members working to bring that project to reality. Read more on Page 40. Photo courtesy Ambler Metals THIS PAGE: An underground miner at Coeur Alaska’s Kensington Mine sprays down the rock to inspect the surface. Photo courtesy Coeur Alaska
Mark Huffington
24 Profile: Oxford
Assaying & Refining Corp.
26 Profile: Rough Stock Mining 28 Profile: Contango Ore 30 Profile: Millrock Resources Inc. 44 Mining Business and Service Directory
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
Fall 2021 Annual Anchorage Convention Winter 2022 Legislative and Season Preview
Executive Director
Deantha Skibinski Jennifer Luiten Darlene Strickland
Membership and Fundraising Director
Spring 2022 Project Updates Summer 2022 People in Mining
Bookkeeping and Membership
EXECUTIVE BOARD
BRANCH CHAIRMEN
Bill Jeffress President, SRK Consulting, Anchorage Bartly Kleven First Vice President, Kinross–Fort Knox, Fairbanks Lorali Simon Second Vice President, Usibelli Coal Mine, Healy Kim Aasand Treasurer, Aasand & Glore LLC., Anchorage
Ted Hawley Anchorage Lorali Simon Denali Jen Wieland Fairbanks Liz Cornejo Haines Jim Clark Juneau
Houston Morris Kenai Blake Bogart Nome Andrew Spokely Ketchikan/
Prince of Wales
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