Photo: A meeting of mine workers

Randy Wanamaker, executive director of the Berners Bay Consortium Human Resources Development Corp., shakes hands with Clifford Adams, Richard Austin and Michael Milligan Saturday as they prepare to board a Coastal Helicopters flight to the Kensington gold mine. The AIC/Kake Tribal joint venture employees are members of the first work crew to go to the mine and start work on construction of the tailings facility at the mine.

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