(Bloomberg) -- South32 Ltd. is optimistic the incoming Trump administration will open up access to a copper-rich region in northwest Alaska, where the Australian miner has development rights.

The principal aim of the metallurgical testwork is to develop a preliminary process flowsheet optimized for metal recovery for the Whistler gold-copper mineralization, that will be used in the ...

Whistler is the closest large undeveloped gold-copper mineral deposit to Anchorage, Alaska's largest city (see Figure 1) and therefore has good proximity to existing highways, port facilities ...