ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Large stretches of salmon-spawning streams and thousands of acres of wetlands would be wiped out if a large-scale mining project were to be built in southwestern Alaska's copper-rich Bristol Bay region, according to a report issued Friday by the Environmental Protection Agency. The report, while not directly addressing it, is a potential blow to the massive Pebble ...

The possible failure of a dam holding waste from a large-scale mine near the headwaters of one of the world's premier salmon fisheries in Alaska could wipe out or degrade rivers and streams in the region ...

Rivers and streams in the world's premier wild salmon fishery would be greatly degraded for decades should a vast gold and copper mine be built and then see a failure in the dam holding back its mine waste, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said in a draft report Friday.

Rivers and streams in the world's premier wild salmon fishery would be greatly degraded for decades should a vast gold and copper mine be built and then see a failure in the dam holding back its mine waste, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said in a draft report Friday.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Failure of a large-scale mine planned near the headwaters of one of the world's premier salmon fisheries in Alaska could wipe out or degrade rivers and streams in the region for decades, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said in a draft watershed assessment released Friday.

JUNEAU, Alaska - The possible failure of a dam holding waste from a large-scale mine planned near the headwaters of one of the world's premier salmon fisheries in Alaska could wipe out or degrade rivers and streams in the region for decades, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said in a draft watershed assessment released Friday.

VANCOUVER, May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Fire River Gold Corp. and Mystery Creek Resources Inc. (collectively, the "Company") [TSXV: FAU| OTCQX: FVGCF| FSE: FWR] is pleased to provide this update ...

TORONTO, CANADA-- - Seabridge Gold Inc. announced today the results of an updated National Instrument 43-101-compliant Preliminary Feasibility Study for its 100% owned KSM project located in northern British ...

Ann Miller and her husband Douglas used to live on Valmont Road — directly across the street from the primary tailings pond dike dam at Valmont Butte that is suspected of being a pathway for the contamination that ended up in the wells north of Valmont Road over the years.

As Seattle welcomed the spring’s first shipment of Copper River salmon flown in from up north, a draft federal report warned of potential catastrophic impacts if a huge open-pit mine goes in near Alaska’s — and the world’s — greatest salmon fishery. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 10, based in Seattle, after working on the project for 15 months, released its preliminary ...