Mining employment slips

June 17, 2007 Filed Under: Mining Services  

The average number of mining and natural resources jobs in Fairbanks dropped 14 percent in the first quarter of 2007 after five consecutive years of first quarter growth, according to figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. While preliminary figures show a recovery in the second quarter of 2007, the dip provides a glimpse of the impact two major gold mines have on employment in the region,... 

Pro-Pebble group aims to counter mine foes

January 27, 2007 Filed Under: Lead Mining, Mining Contractors, Mining Services  

A group of influential Alaskans has formed a nonprofit group to counter what they called misinformation being disseminated in television and newspaper advertisements by groups opposing Pebble, a possible mine on the Alaska Peninsula southwest of Anchorage. The move is sure to ramp up the public relations war between those opposing and those supporting the mine. The new ”Truth About Pebble”... 

Tonogold Resources, Inc. Completes Drilling and Sampling Program at Nyac, Alaska Gold Project

September 1, 2006 Filed Under: Mining Contractors, Mining Services, Precious Metal  

Tonogold Resources, Inc. has completed their 2006 core drilling, sampling and mapping program at their 83,200 acre Nyac Gold Project in the Tintina Gold Belt of southwest Alaska. The Company has shipped 4,137 soil samples, 55 rock chip samples and 1,361 core samples to the assay lab, ALS Chemex. Assays are reported from the first 2,390 soil samples. Tonogold drilled eleven holes at Nyac in 2006, testing...