TABLE OF CONTENTS
2 Executive
Director’s Report
4 Letter from
Our President
10 Meet AMA’s
New President 16 Faces of Mining: Alycia Thomas 20 Remembering Don Young 22 Alaska Mining’s
Economic Potential
34 Donlin Moves Forward 46 Mining Business and Service Directory 56 Durability Project 2022
ON THE COVER: LaVerne Bryant is a haul truck operator at Kinross Alaska’s Fort Knox Mine and is one of thousands of Alaska women working in our mining industry. Photo courtesy Kinross Fort Knox THIS PAGE: Alaska lost a true statesman and a great friend of mining March 18 when Congressman Don Young died suddenly. Beginning on Page 20 we take a look back at the life of this amazing Alaskan. Photo courtesy Office of Don Young
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
Summer 2022 People in Mining
Executive Director
Deantha Skibinski Jennifer Luiten Darlene Strickland
Fall 2022 Annual Anchorage Convention Winter 2022 Legislative and Season Preview Spring 2023 Project Updates
Membership and Fundraising Director
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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