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  • Alaska Native worker at Pebble copper gold mine project Bristol Bay

    Pebble mine could bolster Alaska economy

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Sep 26, 2020

    Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. said its Pebble project could provide another source of jobs and revenue to an Alaska economy challenged by an interrelated combination of COVID-19 and low oil prices. Though fewer than 400 cases of COVID-19 have been diagnosed in Alaska, placing it among the lowest states in the country on an absolute and per capita basis, the economic impact of the global pandemic on the largest of the United States is both severe and ongoing. As a result of...