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Wednesday, Jul 25, 2012 - 8:00 AM
"Alaska Gold"
The Bristol Bay region of southwest Alaska is home to the last great wild sockeye salmon fishery in the world. It is also home to enormous mineral deposits - copper, gold, molybdenum - estimated to be worth some $300 billion. Now, two foreign mining companies are proposing to extract this mineral wealth by digging one of North America's largest open-pit mines, the "Pebble Mine," at the headwaters of Bristol Bay. G
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