The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
Addresses concerns over tailings facility, environmental effects North of 60 Mining News – September 23, 2022
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said in the 2020 Environmental Impact Statement for Pebble that they "could not conceive how a failure could occur" when determining the logistics of a future tailings facility for the mine.
In spite of the current uncertainty regarding a final decision by the Environmental Protection Agency, Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. and Pebble Limited Partnership has outlined the potential locations and solutions of a tailings pond for the proposed world-class copper-gold-silver-rhenium mine in Southwest Alaska.
To alleviate concerns over the environmental impacts a mine like Pebble would have...
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