Mining

Researchers depart panel set to review Pebble project studies

One researcher has withdrawn and another has been excused from participation in a review of studies released by the group behind a massive mine project in Southwest Alaska. The panel discussions are to begin Tuesday in Anchorage.

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MINING

Alaska mining jobs expected to grow 19 percent by 2020

The Department of Labor predicts Alaska will add 38,749 jobs this decade. Mining will be the second fastest-growing sector, after health care, as long as mineral prices remain steady, writes economist Paul Martz.
MINING

Railroad to resume freight service

The Alaska Railroad is planning to resume freight traffic between Anchorage and Fairbanks on Tuesday after repairs were made to 500 feet of track washed out by flooding.
PEBBLE

Panelists to review science surrounding Pebble mine

The heated battle over the proposed Pebble mine in Southwest Alaska is shifting to science, with panels weighing in on corporate and federal government reports that have only added more fuel to the fight.
PEBBLE

Legal settlement with state could affect Pebble mine

Alaska's natural resources department will have to justify its rationale for designating land use in the Bristol Bay region years ago, a process that could have ramifications for the proposed Pebble mine.
MINING

Public meetings set for Pebble mine input

Public meetings presenting independent reviews of environmental and socioeconomic studies by the Pebble Partnership are scheduled to take place in Anchorage Oct. 2-4 and Oct. 9-11.
OIL AND GAS

State releases report on local energy resources

The state released a report Friday aimed at helping Alaska communities better understand their potential for fossil fuel or geothermal resource development.
MAT-SU

Citizens group wants plug pulled on Wishbone coal mine

The group Friends of the Mat-Su is asking U.S. District Judge John W. Sedwick to pull the plug on Usibelli Coal Mine Inc.'s plan for the Wishbone Hill mine near Sutton and find its state-issued permits invalid.
MINING

Exposure to mercury a concern for Nome gold miners

Gold miners in Nome may have exposed themselves to dangerous amounts of mercury, according to the state Department of Health and Social Services.
PEBBLE

Pebble plans move to mine permitting within months

The group seeking to develop a large gold-and-copper prospect in the Bristol Bay region is on track to release a mine plan later this year or early next year.
MINING

Congressional GOP members fear EPA will halt Pebble early

Congressional Republicans are lining up against the possibility that the Environmental Protection Agency would block the proposed Pebble mine in the Bristol Bay area, a region that produces about half the world's wild sockeye salmon.