Five Norton Sound tribes are asking a federal judge to throw out a key federal permit for a large-scale gold mine proposed in Bonanza Channel, an estuary about 30 miles east of Nome. The mine, proposed by a Nevada company called IPOP LLC, would dredge more than two-and-a-half miles along the channel's estuary bed. Oral arguments for the case went before a federal judge on June 16 in Anchorage. The tribal governments of the Village of Solomon, N…
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