Study trails toxic dust from Red Dog mine in Alaska.

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | Date: August 10, 2004 | Copyright information

By Sarana Schell, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 10--Lead dust, likely from the world's largest zinc mine, has drifted over miles of Northwest Alaska tundra, but at low enough levels it should not affect people who subsistence hunt and gather there, the National Park Service reported Monday.

The newly released Park Service study tracked how far dust from mine operations drifted from the 45-mile road between the Red Dog mine and the port that passes zinc to ships. About 20 miles of the road crosses Park Service land, through ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

High court issues order in Columbia pollution case: Solicitor general brief sought in Teck Cominco appeal.
; ...complex case, filed in 2004 against Teck Cominco Ltd. by two leaders of the Colville Confederated Tribes. Teck Cominco's large lead and zinc smelter is...source of historic river pollution. Teck Cominco stopped discharging slag to the...
Olympic gold is just one aspect of Teck Cominco
; ...Canada provided by Canadian mining giant Teck Cominco. Vaiicouvcr-biiscdTeck Cominco was chosen...one of its six home-country projects. Teck Cominco is one of the strongest and oldest mining...mines in the Hemlo District in Ontario.Teck Cominco holds a 50-percent interest in the ...
Teck Cominco and EPA Reach Impasse Over Lake Roosevelt Environmental Study
; ...2004, months of discussions between Teck Cominco and the U.S. Environmental Protection...Washington State of past slag discharges by Teck Cominco's Trail, British Columbia, lead-zinc...bordering the lake. At issue: Whether Teck Cominco, a Canadian company operating in Canada...
Teck Cominco Acquires Approximately 93% of Aur Resources Common Shares
; ...COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Aug. 22, 2007) - Teck Cominco Limited (TSX:TCK.A and TCK.B, NYSE:TCK...pursuant to the offer ("Offer") made by Teck Cominco to acquire all Aur Shares. All conditions of the Offer have now been satisfied. Teck Cominco has taken up and accepted for payment...
Teck Cominco Increases Holding in Fording Canadian Coal Trust to 19.95%
; ...COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Sept. 24, 2007) - Teck Cominco Limited (TSX - TCK.A; TCK.B; NYSE - TCK...per unit. The units will be acquired by Teck Cominco's wholly-owned subsidiary Teck Cominco Metals Ltd. under a private agreement with...
Teck Cominco Makes Friendly C$41 Per Share Offer for Aur Resources
; ...receive C$30.75 in cash and 0.2187 of a Teck Cominco Class B share per Aur common share at...add over 200 million pounds or 43% to Teck Cominco's annual copper production and 136...expected to be immediately accretive to Teck Cominco's earnings and cash flow per share...
Teck Cominco to pay for pollution studies.
; ...settlement with Vancouver, B.C.- based Teck Cominco Ltd. was announced late Friday in Washington...to the agreement and fears it may let Teck Cominco off the hook for cleaning up Lake Roosevelt...said spokeswoman Jani Gilbert. We feel Teck Cominco is the polluter and should pay for ...
Pollution study ordered: Teck Cominco pact targets fouling of Columbia.
; ...settlement with Vancouver, B.C.- based Teck Cominco Ltd. was announced late Friday in Washington...to the agreement and fears it may let Teck Cominco off the hook for cleaning up Lake Roosevelt...said spokeswoman Jani Gilbert. We feel Teck Cominco is the polluter and should pay for ...
CORRECTION FROM SOURCE: Teck Cominco Makes Friendly C$41 Per Share Offer for Aur Resources Highlights - Aur shareholders to receive C$30.75 in cash and 0.2187 of a Teck Cominco Class B share per Aur common share at full pro- ration
; ...add over 200 million pounds or 43% to Teck Cominco's annual copper production and 136...expected to be immediately accretive to Teck Cominco's earnings and cash flow per share...complete and corrected release follows. Teck Cominco Limited (TSX:TCK.A and TCK.B, NYSE:TCK...
Teck Cominco Exercises 3 Million US$5 Warrants
; ...or "Nautilus") is pleased to announce that Teck Cominco Limited ("Teck Cominco") has agreed to exercise, 6 months early, its...per share for a total of US$15 million taking Teck Cominco's shareholding to approximately 7.2% of the...