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The Bureau of Land Management recognized Alaska miner Jim Olmstead with the agency's 2005 National Sustainable Mineral Development Award in the Small Operator Category.

The award recognizes the efforts of individuals and companies in implementing the principles of sustainable development, a concept adopted by the United States and 192 other countries to balance environmental, economic and social considerations in planning for mining operations.

Olmstead has been mining gold on Gold Creek, 200 miles up the Dalton Highway, since 1996, where his one-person summer operation has progressed from a suction dredge to a small Case 450 tractor...