Above Stikine River, Canadian government boosts huge mining project you’ve probably never heard of

By Max Graham – Northern Journal 

A major copper-and-gold mining project in the rugged mountains of northwestern British Columbia — upstream from a Southeast Alaska fishing town — is poised for a boost from the Canadian government.

Canada’s department of natural resources last month announced that it plans to inject about $15 million U.S. into a massive copper and gold development just 25 miles from the Alaska border. The project is perched above tributaries of the Stikine River — a major salmon-bearing waterway that flows into Alaska’s Inside Passage between the small towns of Wrangell and Petersburg.