Posts Tagged ‘ alaska ’

Alaska: “The Most Important Strategic Place in the World,” Part II

Feb 14th, 2008 | By Byron King | Category: Commodities
IN HIS LAST PUBLIC APPEARANCE BEFORE HE DIED, William “Billy” Mitchell (1879-1936) testified before a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. It was 1935. The U.S. was in the grips of the Great Depression. Mitchell recalled how, as a young Army officer, he helped string a telegraph wire across ...read more


Letters to the Editor: Alaska

Jun 28th, 2007 | By Byron King | Category: Oil
An old pipeline welder once told me, “Once you go to Alaska, you never come all the way home.” I thought he was just a silly romantic, but after returning from the 49th state, I can understand what he meant. I am back home, among family and friends, but part ...read more


A Gold Nugget from Alaska

Jun 20th, 2007 | By Byron King | Category: Gold
You may know that I recently completed a trip from south to north across Alaska, from Seward on the Pacific Coast up to Prudhoe Bay and the Arctic Ocean. I was investigating the geology of Alaska in the company of a group of other geologists, and looking at the mineral ...read more


“Pretty High Land”

Jun 19th, 2007 | By Byron King | Category: Oil
I told you last week that I have come up to Alaska to participate in a geological field trip, looking at the rocks, minerals, and energy resources of the 49th state from the Kenai Peninsula in the south to Prudhoe Bay and the Arctic Ocean in the north. I have ...read more


There’s Money to Be Made in Alaska’s Resources

Jun 12th, 2007 | By Byron King | Category: Oil
I have taken wing and come up to the great state of Alaska to go on a geological field trip. We are traversing from the Kenai Peninsula in the south to Prudhoe Bay and the Arctic Sea in the north. I’m looking at one critical component of the nation's energy resource ...read more


$7,200,000.00

Jun 4th, 2007 | By Byron King | Category: Oil
It was one of the most unlikely transactions in all of geographic history. One nation did not want to sell its patrimony. The other nation did not want to buy a worthless bit of real estate that was too far away to be of concern. To the seller, the price ...read more