![]() Eighty-ton trucks will soon be driving across it as part of Kinross’ 250-mile ore haul. Trumpeter swans land on the Chena river near a bridge on Peger Road. Snowmelt feeds the creeks that form a mosaic of muskeg in nearby Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge, a migration corridor for hundreds of bird species. The route follows the Tanana River across the Interior, where spruce-covered foothills knuckle below the stark peaks of the Alaska Range. ![]() Kinross Alaska, the majority owner and operator, will haul the rock on the Alaska Highway and other roads to a processing mill just north of Fairbanks. Roughly 250 miles to the southeast, plans are developing to dig an open-pit gold mine called Manh Choh, or “big lake” in Upper Tanana Athabascan. She slows for a patch of ice, explaining that the steep turn is just one of many concerns she has about a looming project that could radically transform Alaskan mining as the state begins looking beyond oil. (Sean McDermott/Grist)Ī dusting of snow clings to the highway as Barbara Schuhmann drives around a hairpin curve near her home in Fairbanks. A portion of the Alaska Highway between Fairbanks and Tok.
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