For weeks, truck traffic has been moving equipment and building materials from American Pacific Mining’s Klehini River modular camp on the Porcupine Spur Road in the upper Chilkat Valley. 

The company’s media contacts did not respond to a request for more information about its plans, but in an August 7 information release clarified that it is demobilizing the camp as an austerity measure that will save hundreds of thousands of dollars per month. 

At least…

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