...Pacific North West Capital, which is operating the exploration phase, hired Fairbanks geologic consulting company Avalon Development Corp. to manage the prospecting. At the average pace for mining exploration, a study to peg the profitability of...

...production at current projects are starting to put more money into finding new sites, said Curt Freeman, president of Avalon Development Corp., a Fairbanks exploration company. "It's really charged up the industry," he said. "At this time last...

...forfeit their claims. "The impetus there is to do something sooner rather than later," said Curt Freeman, whose Avalon Development Corp. provides services to mineral exploration companies. Freeman said interest around Delta Junction last spiked...

...of the steely gray metals dwindle. "There is huge demand for this stuff," said Curt Freeman, president of Avalon Development Corp., which has several platinum and palladium clients. Platinum and palladium have been mined in Alaska before...