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Corps: Alaska mine would have adverse impacts on salmon site

by Associated Press
| August 25, 2020 12:03 AM

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA (AP) — A proposed gold and copper mine at the headwaters of the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery in Alaska would cause “unavoidable adverse impacts,” the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said in a letter to the developer released Monday.

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