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THE JOURNAL - AN OFFICIAL PUBLICATION BY THE ALASKA MINERS ASSOCIATION
AUGUST 2026 | WWW.ALASKAMINERS.ORG
Stewardship in action: Kensington Mine teams clean up site The environmental team at Coeur Alaska Kenginston Mine recently organized a site-wide cleanup. Staff from across all departments teamed up to help keep the site clean and well-maintained. Events like these help build camaraderie and ensure the site remains a safe and secure place to oper- ate. Thank you to everyone who helped and for being good stewards of our landscape!
Greens Creek tailings eyed for NVRO hub BY SHANE LASLEY
H ecla Mining Company has signed a memoran- dum of understanding to advance its initiative to recover precious and critical metals from tail- ings at its Greens Creek Mine in Southeast Alaska and help validate NVRO Metals Ltd.'s emerging processing hub in Australia. The MOU, signed by Hecla's Alaska subsidiary, Hecla Greens Creek Mining Company, establishes the techni- cal and commercial framework for a proposed indus- trial-scale campaign to process roughly 35,000 metric tons of Greens Creek tailings at the NVRO Metals Hub being established in Australia's Northern Territory. "While the MOU is non-binding, it lays out a framework for an industrial-scale trial to test the NVRO Process using our tailings," said Mike Satre, Hecla's Director of Government Affairs. The MOU is the latest step in an expanding tailings processing collaboration between Hecla and NVRO, formerly EnviroGold Global. As the United States and its allies push to shift crit- ical mineral supply chains away from China, Hecla
began to investigate the potential of extracting value from metals that are not currently being recovered at Greens Creek. As part of this investigation, Hecla estimated that roughly $6.8 billion of metals have accumulated in the tailings from 36 years of mining at Greens Creek. This includes approximately 50 million ounces of silver, 567,000 ounces of gold, 309 million pounds of zinc, 203 million pounds of lead, 27 million pounds of copper and 1.3 million pounds of nickel. In addition to the primary metals, the dry-stacked tailings also host an array of minor metals considered critical to the United States, including arsenic, barium, bismuth, chromium, gallium, germanium, manganese and vanadium. "There is no question that the tailings at Greens Creek contain a significant amount of in-situ metal, and we are actively evaluating opportunities to reprocess our tailings and maximize the extraction of silver and other critical minerals from the material," Satre said earlier this year.
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