By Shane Lasley
Mining News
Red and copper resources at stake
Engineers use $100 million in environmental studies, 100 miles of drilling at Pebble to design economic, environmentally safe mine
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Last updated 7/27/2008 at Noon
ILIAMNA - The Bristol Bay region of Southwest Alaska is the home to two world-class resources: a celebrated sockeye salmon fishery and the humongous Pebble copper-gold-molybdenum deposit. This combination offers the potential for an enduring vibrant economy.
But the challenge for owners of a proposed mine at Pebble is to create a workable development plan for the mineral resource that poses no...
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