A state agency last week awarded Constantine Metal Resources lease rights to nearly 100,000 acres of land 30 miles northwest of Haines for mineral exploration, development and production.
The lease encompasses an area more than twice the size of the Alaska Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve, located mostly between the Tsirku and upper Chilkat rivers.
The Mental Health Trust Land Office received only one application for the lease offered in February, said Mike Franger, the trust’s…
