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Article: High-grade zone found at pebble: called 'extraordinary' and 'phenomenal,' this mine has great potential, but with logistics and other difficulties, will it be profitable?(Northern Dynasty Mines Inc.)
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- Alaska Business Monthly
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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Joni Paule spent last summer and fall handling mineral-rich rocks taken from a mammoth-sized gold-copper-molybdenum deposit near her Lake Iliamna home.
"Sometimes I'd go home with glitter all over my clothes ... the rocks are green to gray. They're gorgeous," said Paule, who earned $15 per hour working up to 50 hours a week from April through October, splitting drill core taken from the Pebble project, located some 15 miles northwest of the community of Iliamna.
"I'd probably come back and do it again. It's good physical work-keeps me busy," she said, in early October. "During fishing season, they let me have time off, so it's been really good."