Yukon bureaucrats, read the Yukon News today.On mining, both the Yukon and Alaska have rich and often similar geology, although the Yukon scores slightly higher on the Mineral Potential Index of the Fraser Institute’s Annual Survey of Mining Companies. Alaska’s mining output was $2.9 billion, ten times more than the Yukon’s $281 million. Alaska is bigger and therefore has more rocks, but if you do the math, Alaska’s mining output per square kilometre is triple the Yukon’s. The border plays a role here, since we have different regulatory regimes. According to the same survey’s Policy Perception Index, Alaska scores #19 out of 86 jurisdictions while the Yukon scores #28. For example, 90 per cent of Alaskan respondents said they got their exploration permits within ten months. Only 42 per cent of Yukon respondents said the same thing.