Ambler road approval next year?
Trilogy Metals hopes for federal approvals in mid-2020 on a proposed 211-mile industrial road from the Dalton Highway to the Ambler Mining District, where Trilogy is working on its Arctic high-grade copper project. If developed, Arctic could ship 40 trucks a day, or 300 sealed containers a week, of concentrates by road to Fairbanks and then rail to the Port of Alaska in Anchorage.

Kensington: 10 more years
Coeur Alaska is finalizing a plan to expand waste storage facilities so the mine can operate for an- other 10 years. Current facilities are sufficient until 2023 but the plan for increased capacity would al- low mining to continue to 2033. Coeur operates the Kensington gold mine near Berners Bay north of Juneau. The mine is a major employer in the area.