Saturday, October 4, 2008

Alaska's proposed Pebble Mine

A very controversial subject in the fishing world is Alaska's proposed Pebble Mine. At stake is the world's greatest salmon fishery, the famous Bristol Bay region of Alaska. As with all mining operations ( this mine will become North America's largest open-pit mine ), tailings and toxic products used in the mining process become a potentially catastrophic ecological disaster. The low-grade ore that exist there requires processing huge amounts of materials to make the operation economically feasible.
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