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South32 ups 2021 investments in Alaska
Following COVID hiatus, Aussie major funds UKMP program, Ambler access road; resumes drill program at Shorty Creek North of 60 Mining News – July 30, 2021
Trilogy Metals Inc.
Ambler Metals 2021 program includes resource upgrade of metallurgical drilling at Arctic and the exploration of similar VMS targets near the proposed mine.
When Australia-based South32 Ltd. decided to expand its portfolio into the Northern Hemisphere, Alaska was its first stop. Under a deal struck with Trilogy Metals Inc. in 2017, South32 agreed to invest more than US$175 million to earn a 50% joint venture interest in the massive Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects in Alaska s world-class Ambler Mining District.
An indigenous land-owning organization asked an Alaska federal judge to let it join a mining road suit, siding against Native American tribes that opened the case over allegedly improper approval and devastating impacts of a 211-mile mining access road.
Dunleavy administration proposes millions for biggest Alaska farming project in decades
Print article JUNEAU The administration of Gov. Mike Dunleavy is seeking $5 million for a 100,000-acre farming project west of the Interior town of Nenana. It’s one of a series of agricultural and land-development projects proposed by the governor in amendments to the annual capital budget, which funds construction and renovation projects across Alaska. Land sales in the new Nenana-Totchaket farming district could take place as soon as fall 2022, said Dave Shady, director of the Alaska Division of Agriculture, and if the project is fully developed, it would be the largest state-funded agricultural venture in Alaska since the failed Delta Barley Project of the 1970s and 1980s.
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