2024 Fall Convention Presentations

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TECHNICAL SESSIONS
 

Geoscience Investigations

• DGGS Earth MRI geologic mapping and geophysics program update

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Exploration Project Highlights

• A Hyper-spectacular Occurrence with Fall to Earth

• Cook Inlet Regional, Inc. (CIRI) Farewell Mineral Exploration

• Filling in the Blanks: In-region Exploration for Doyon Limited

• Thermal (Long-wave) InfraRed Remote Sensing for Porphyry Exploration at the Oreo Mountain Cu-Mo-Ag-Au Prospect, East-Central Alaska

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Climate Change in the Last frontier: forecasts and what it means

• ​Cost-effective Strategy for Investigating Permafrost at Remote, Northern Mine Sites

• Critical Metals and their role in the green energy, transportation and AI driven future

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Alaska Advanced Exploration Projects

• Building Alaska’s Next Gold Mine – Update on Contango Ore Johnson Tract Project

• The Whistler Gold-Copper Exploration Project - The Road to Rediscovery

• Update on the Estelle project

• The Illinois Creek Project: A New Discovery in an Emerging CRD District

• Graphite Creek – Technical Advances

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Mines and Advanced Projects

• Concentrate! Lessons from Cleanup Around a Cons Storage Building

• Dawson Mine Update, Mining of Low Angle Vein Systems, and Planned Gravity Recovery Enhancementsver mine

• Up-Hill Mining Backfill Challenges: When Gravity Is Not On Your Side

• Manh Choh: A Legacy of Sustainable Progress in Interior Alaska

• Usibelli Coal Mine: The Next 81 Years 

• Pogo Project, Alaska:  "Geology and New Gold Discovery"

• Pogo Optimization and Successes: 2024 Operational Update

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AMA Policy Issues

• DNR's Water Management Program and regulations update

• Towards Sustainable Mining Initiative

• Don’t Get Rejected – Best Practices for Location Sketch Maps

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Alaska's Energy Challenges 

• Introduction to session: current energy consumption at Alaska's mines, Requirements for success

• Railbelt energy grid: status and options for expanding the system

• Micro-nuclear power and storage options for rural Alaska 

• Southcentral pending natural gas shortage: results from options study to fill the looming deficit 

• Interior energy infrastructure; coal's role in providing afforable and reliable energy today and in the future

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