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Recognizing Southeast Alaska as a mining district
Alaska aims to unlock $65.4 billion in mineral resources and clean up legacy mines using greener extraction methods amid regulatory uncertainty, officials said.
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Recognizing Southeast Alaska as a mining district
Many Alaskans and folks Outside, including in Congress, do not realize that the Tongass National Forest is a Volcanic Mass Sulfide area the size of West Virginia and, accordingly, a major Alaska mining district. Patricia Roppel’s 1991 book, “Fortunes from the Earth,” catalogues over 120 legacy non-gold mines (copper, zinc, barite) throughout Southeast Alaska that were mined from the 1890s forward. The legacy gold mines throughout the Region (lik…
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