TIMELINE OF HAINES BOROUGH COMMUNICATIONS RE: ORE DOCK

2012: Port Development Steering Committee

2016-2018

Discussions begin regarding Lutak Dock as a deepwater port

Haines Borough

Comprehensive Plan

MOU with Prophecy

Platinum

R&M retained by Haines Borough, releases a report outlining five dock design options (all dock options would allow for ore export via Handymax ship)

2020: AML pays for the construction of a new ro-ro dock and the face of the Lutak Dock is closed (and has not reopened since).

2021

Haines Borough applies for a $20M RAISE grant

2022

Northern Economics

Port Development Report

HEDC 2018 Economic Baseline Report connects Yukon mines, the Palmer Project, and the Lutak Dock

December weather event shows geohazards in Lutak Inlet

Haines Borough commissions a

Jobs Analysis and Benefit-Cost Analysis to support its RAISE grant application .

3/24/22 PHAC meeting with Yukon mining reps brings the topic into the public eye

AML signs MOU with Haines Borough

AIDEA expresses interest in moving Skagway's old ore port infrastructure to the Lutak dock

Haines Borough retains R&M and Turnagain Marine, begins progressive design-build dock project with contracted consultant .

Timeline

This timeline is just a brief snapshot of the more relevant communications, studies, and reports commissioned by the Borough (or the Yukon) regarding the Lutak Dock and its use as an ore transfer facility.

The idea of attracting Yukon mines to use the Lutak Dock goes back more than a decade. There is ample and compelling evidence to this effect, but for the sake of space, we've included only some of the most relevant.

Exploratory drilling by Constantine Metal Resources leads to the first resource estimate for the Palmer Project

In 2010, two events coincided-Constantine made the first resource estimate for The Palmer Deposit and the renewed interest in the Lutak Dock as a deepwater port.

Haines Borough commissions an assessment of the Lutak Dock's potential to be developed/expanded into a deepwater loading port

"Develop conceptual plans for a deep draft dock and loader to handle ships with 36 feet of draft (Handymax)"

This memo accompanied the 2012 Northern Economics

Port of Haines: Potential for Development report.

MAY 31, 2012

"The Haines Borough recently launched a Haines Port Development Steering Committee. Three residents have since formed the Haines Port Development Council - described as a private-sector cooperative research group - with a similar aim to encourage Yukon Territory mines to ship through Haines."

— Chilkat Valley News