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...First, mining companies get a tax holiday for the first 3.5 years of a mine's operation. In the Interior, the Illinois Creek Mine went bankrupt within two years of operation, so Alaska never collected royalties or any mining taxes from the...
...The Greens Creek mine near Juneau ranked second, with 42.5 million pounds of toxic chemical releases. And the Illinois Creek mine, 300 miles north of Anchorage, released 28 million pounds, ranking it third, according to the Anchorage Daily...
...Fairbanks is Alaska's largest gold producer and there was continued gold production from the Nixon Fork Mine, the Illinois Creek Mine and several dozen placer mines around the state through 1998. The Juneau-based Sealaska Corp. began production...
...trawler Mekhanik Bryzgalin after it was spotted in the Bering Sea. Gold mine gets new operator ANCHORAGE - The bankrupt Illinois Creek gold mine has been leased to the Alaska subsidiary of a Canadian mining company. Viceroy Alaska, a subsidiary of...
...outside Fairbanks continue to set new production records and in 2001 together they produced 411,000 ounces of gold. Illinois Creek, located southwest of Galena, continues to produce as the mine approaches final reclamation. During 2002 Usibelli...
...mine abandons operations or goes bankrupt, as the Illinois Creek Mine in west-central Alaska did in 1999, Chambers...lucky that it was able to fund the closure of the Illinois Creek Mine by finding a contractor who continued to operate...
...from Anaconda Minerals in the early 1980s. One gold project has been developed in CIRI-owned mining claims - the Illinois Creek Mine in western Interior Alaska. Mining is temporarily suspended due to low gold prices, however. CIRI is the only...
...takeover of the financially troubled Illinois Creek Mine, about 60 miles southwest...sought to reclaim the property. Illinois Creek shut down after the 1997 summer...silver remain in the ground at Illinois Creek. But those estimates of economically...
...said. When gold was going for about $375 an ounce in 1996, Dakota Mining started pouring $40 million into the Illinois Creek Mine near Galena, said Steve Hartung, the court-appointed receiver of the mine when it went bankrupt in late 1998...
...from Anaconda Minerals in the early 1980s. One gold project has been developed in CIRI-owned mining claims - the Illinois Creek Mine in western Interior Alaska. Mining is temporarily suspended due to low gold prices, however. CIRI is the only...