Red Dog Mine News

As the world watches a Russian tanker crawl toward Nome, its belly full of gasoline and diesel fuel, two northwest Alaska villages faced a more immediate need this week.

The U-S Environmental Protection Agency today reports that Alaska mining operations account for ninety percent of the toxic chemical releases in the four-state Pacific Northwest Region.

The State of Alaska expects China to be its top export customer in 2011, overtaking Japan, which until recently had been purchasing more of the state's goods than any other country.