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Posted By: mickey New Mine - 06/07/04
Can anybody give me the name of the new mine North of Lake Clark? What are they going to mine?
Posted By: Sitka deer Re: New Mine - 06/07/04
Mickey
There is more than one company involved and each has its own name. It will be a huge project regardless. One of the biggest players is calling it the "Pebble Project" IIRC.

It is to be open-pit and involving just the rim of a HUGE caldera. Gold is the primary, but silver is also very big. IIRC molybdenum is also on the menu.

Projected start-up is in the next 5 years and will likely involve split-shift work living out there and being returned to Anchorage for time off.

I suspect it will be a lot like Prudhoe Bay was in the early years with a lot of "can to can't" shifts. (show up when you can take it and leave when you can't take it anymore) A week of 7-12s is probable and the money should be quite good...
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