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00:00In addition to the cautionary note regarding forward-looking statements and imagery,
00:06please see cautionary language on our website at www.trilogymetals.com.
00:13This video shows our future plans to build a mine at Arctic.
00:17It is clearly forward-looking and much work lies ahead to make this a reality.
00:22Trilogy Metals is developing the Ambler Mining District in Alaska to produce copper, zinc, lead, gold, silver, and cobalt.
00:38All metals necessary to support our modern way of life.
00:41Alaska feels the effects of climate change more than any other region in the United States.
00:54The Paris Accord on Climate Change identified meaningful actions to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and slow down climate change.
01:01Use more alternative forms of energy such as wind, solar, hydro, nuclear, and geothermal.
01:12And, replace the internal combustion engine with electric vehicles.
01:17Both of these transitions will take approximately five times more copper than conventional energy and transportation to achieve.
01:24Copper is essential to building a carbon-free, sustainable energy future.
01:29So, where is copper mined today?
01:32Thirty-five percent comes from Central Africa, where corruption, child labor, and poor working conditions are common.
01:38And, thirty-five percent comes from the Andean Copper Belt of South America, where mines use precious water necessary for farming and other critical applications.
01:47This sometimes causes social unrest and even violent protests.
01:51The Ambler Mining District, located in northwestern Alaska,
01:58is another location blessed with abundant copper.
02:02Shortly after Alaska became a state,
02:04these lands were chosen specifically to develop their mineral potential by the state of Alaska.
02:10In addition, Nana Regional Corporation also selected lands for the mineral potential as a result of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, or ANCSA.
02:19The Ambler District is rich in copper, zinc, lead, cobalt, gold, and silver.
02:27There are dozens of known deposits in the Ambler District, including Arctic, Sun, Sunshine, Smucker, and Bornite.
02:36To date, billions of pounds of copper have been discovered, and more exploration will likely lead to more discoveries.
02:43Since 2004, Trilogy has expended over $100 million exploring the district.
02:49At Arctic, Trilogy is conducting a feasibility study and readying the project for permitting.
02:55Meanwhile, continued exploration at Boronite is proving up more copper and cobalt resources in the hopes of defining a second world-class deposit.
03:08The Arctic deposit sits under the first set of foothills that make up the Brooks Range.
03:13The rocks that host Arctic are over 350 million years old, deposited on an ancient seafloor.
03:24Drilling at Arctic has identified a probable mineral reserve containing 43 million metric tons grading 2.3% copper, 3.2% zinc, 0.6% lead, half a gram of gold, and over an ounce of silver,
03:40making it one of the highest-grade open-pit copper resources in the world.
03:44A total of 163 drill holes define the extent of mineralization.
03:51In addition, detailed studies on the hydrology, geochemistry, and rock mechanics for pit slope stability studies,
04:00along with extensive environmental baseline information, have been carried out.
04:05Arctic is planned to be mined as an open-pit surface mine.
04:09The strip ratio is expected to be 7 to 1, meaning that 7 tons of unmineralized rock will be mined for every ton of ore.
04:18This ensures maximum recovery of the copper-bearing rock.
04:22Ores will be processed in a mill, while unmineralized rock and tailings will be deposited in a tailings and rock storage facility.
04:30At the end of the mine life, the area will undergo reclamation, as discussed later in this video.
04:37We anticipate that the mining process will start with drilling and blasting to break up the rock into smaller pieces,
04:43that can be loaded onto large haul trucks carrying 100 tons of material.
04:55The non-mineralized rock will be hauled to a material storage site located near the head of the valley.
05:04The ore-grade material will be hauled to a crusher for further size reduction.
05:09The crusher and coarse ore stockpile will be housed in buildings to help prevent fugitive dust contamination.
05:16The ore will be fed to a semi-autogenous grinding mill, or a sag mill, followed by further grinding in a ball mill.
05:23The mills will grind the crushed ore fragments into fine, silty material.
05:28Flotation tanks separate the metals into three concentrates.
05:31A copper concentrate, a zinc concentrate, and a lead concentrate containing most of the gold and silver.
05:39The current plans are for the concentrates to be stored in a storage shed,
05:43where they will be loaded into special concentrate containers with locking lids.
05:47This is designed to prevent any loss of concentrate to the environment.
05:51Note that the trucks would not enter the concentrate shed, and therefore will not be contaminated with metal dust.
05:58The containers will then be loaded onto flatbed trucks.
06:03Trilogy intends that concentrates will be hauled along the proposed Ambler Mining District Industrial Access Road,
06:10also known as AMDAP, a 211-mile private road currently being permitted and planned to be built by the Alaska Industrial Development Export Authority, or ADA.
06:20This proposed road will connect to the Dalton Highway near Coldfoot.
06:25Bridges will be built high enough for traditional river access for hunting and fishing.
06:29During caribou migration season in the fall, trucks will stop to allow the migration to proceed unhindered.
06:42This practice has been demonstrated to be effective over a 30-year operating period at the Red Dog Mine.
06:49At the Dalton Highway, a security gate and guard station will ensure that the AMDAP remains a private road for commercial use only.
06:57No public access for hunting and fishing would be allowed.
07:01Approximately 40 trucks per day will haul concentrates to Fairbanks, where they will be unloaded and stacked until ready to be reloaded onto flatbed rail cars for the journey to a year-round port in south-central Alaska.
07:21At the port, containers will be unloaded and stacked until they are emptied into bulk shipping carriers.
07:27A special rotobox mechanism fitted to an overhead crane will pick up the concentrate boxes and lift them into position, opening the lid and depositing the concentrate directly into the ship hold.
07:39This approach is designed to minimize dust pollution. Approximately half a million tons of concentrate is planned to be shipped per year.
07:48The concentrate will likely be transported to Korea, Japan and China, where ample smelting capacity exists to process the concentrates into usable metals necessary to sustain our modern lifestyle.
08:01We expect that approximately 450 jobs will be needed at the Arctic mine. More should the Borneite project be developed.
08:15These jobs include haul truck drivers, mechanics, heavy equipment operators, drillers and blasters, maintenance and inventory specialists, electricians, millwrights,
08:29carpenters, accountants, chefs and caterers, nurses and EMTs, communications and IT experts, along with engineers, geologists, environmental scientists and managers.
08:48The jobs go beyond the mines. By using the existing infrastructure in Alaska, there would be jobs all along the transportation route.
08:56For example, 24 people will be needed at three maintenance stations, several more at the security gate, a dozen in Fairbanks for transport and transfer to the Alaska Railroad,
09:07and finally at the port in South Central Alaska to load the ships bound for Asia.
09:13Developing the Ambler Mining District will create hundreds of jobs throughout Alaska and help maintain Alaska's important transportation infrastructure.
09:21In Alaska, mining requires a rigorous permitting process involving state and federal agencies and the Northwest Arctic Borough.
09:31Trilogy plans to initiate this process in 2019. A detailed reclamation plan is an integral part of the permitting process,
09:39and a multi-million dollar bond will be required to ensure this reclamation work will be completed, including water treatment and long-term monitoring.
09:48Trilogy is committed to developing the Ambler Mining District in a responsible manner, with the utmost attention paid to maintaining the subsistence lifestyle of the local Inupiaq and Athabaskan residents, Alaska's first people.
10:03Copper and cobalt mined in the Ambler District can be used to generate clean, non-carbon forms of energy generation,
10:12or in emission-free electric vehicles.
10:16Alternative energy and electric vehicles are part of the solution to meaningfully address climate change and air pollution,
10:24issues that we all care about and must change for a better future.
10:28This video represents our plan to develop the Arctic deposit.
10:32If you have any questions, please contact us at info at TrilogyMetals.com.
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