2020 Fall Convention Presentations

* indicates an abstract is available rather than the full presentation

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TECHNICAL SESSIONS
 

GEOSCIENCE INVESTIGATIONS

• The New Shaw Creek and Shawnee Peak Airborne Magnetic Survey and DGGS Minerals Program Update

• Tungsten Skarn Potential of the Yukon-Tanana Uplands, Eastern Alaska, USA—A Mineral Resource Assessment*

• Progress Report: Cobalt at Bornite

• Alteration Characteristics of the Newly Discovered AG Zone Deposit Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide Prospect, Palmer Property, Southeast Alaska*
   

INDUSTRY OVERVIEW and POLICY UPDATES

• Alaska Mining 2020: Discoveries are Waiting

• Office of Project Management and Permitting: Looking Forward

• Alaska Mineral Tenure Post-SB155

• Clean Water 404 Changes Within the Last Year

EARLY AND INTERMEDIATE STAGE EXPLORATION PROJECTS

• The Oreo Mountain Porphyry Cu-Mo-Ag-Au Prospect and Exploration History, Metallogenics and Industry Activity in the Tanacross Quadrangle, East-Central Alaska

• 64North Project - First Year Exploration Highlights From An Emerging Gold Camp*

• The Tibbs Gold Project: An Outlier in the Goodpaster Mining District

• The Complete and Continuing Story of the Niblack Project; Prince of Wales Island, Southeast Alaska
   

ADVANCED STAGE EXPLORATION PROJECTS

• Alaska’s Pebble Opportunity - a project update

• Alaska’s Next Gold Mine - Advancing the Peak Gold deposit to a production decision in partnership with Kinross and the Tetlin Tribe

• Ambler VMS Belt- A New Company, New Access, and New Opportunities

• Swabs and Jobs: Rising to the Challenge at Donlin

ELECTIONS RECAP & POLICY UPDATES

• 2020 General Elections Recap

• Investing in Alaskans, Access, and Infrastructure for Alaska’s Resources

• Implications of the Supreme Court's Maui County Decision for the Mining Industry

• The Essential Art of Prospecting*
   

MINING OPERATIONS

• The Future of Kinross in Alaska

• Recent Water Quality Changes in Northwest Alaska Observations from the Red Dog Mine

• Hecla Greens Creek Mine Drystack Tailings: North Extension Project

• Kensington Mine - A Stalwart Member of the Community Looks to its Future

KEYNOTE

• Attracting Venture Capital for Large-Scale Mine Exploration and Development in Alaska*

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OTHER CONVENTION PRESENTATIONS
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POSTER SESSIONS

• Rite in the Rain to iPhone: a transition to digital underground data collection at Kensington

• New Detrital zircon ages indicate potential for expansion of the Upper Triassic Hyd Group along strike from Hyd Group host rocks of the Palmer VMS prospect, southeast Alaska 

• Supra-subduction zone origin for ultramafic rocks from the Seventymile ophiolitic terrane, eastern Alaska

• Water Quality Violations in Alaska 2011-2019

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PROJECTS (PROSPECTORS' TENT & CORESHACK) 

• Boulder Prospect

• Elliott Creek

• Oreo Mountain

• Tibbs

• Zarembo Island

• Amanita | Golden Zone

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SHORT COURSE
 

PLACER MINE PERMITTING - coming soon!

• Application for Permits to Mine in Alaska (APMA) – Dave Charron

• Surface Uses of Mining Claims and Land Use Permits – Dave Charron

• DEC Placer Mining Wastewater Discharge Permitting – DEC Water Staff

• State Placer Mine Reclamation Laws – Dave Charron

• Federal Laws and Regulations ‐ What they look like in Alaska – John Hoppe

• Exploration Notices and Mining Plans of Operations. – Joe Galluzzi

• How to get your mining application processed with the least amount of steps (or meetings). – James Whitlock

• Getting Bonded – John Hoppe

• Getting to the Mining: Beginning development and mining – Tara Hutchinson

• Water Management – Taylor Bennett

• Managing Reclamation – Fred Transberg

• Question and Answer session with BLM Staff