Pebble Mine in Alaska Holds Promise for US Mining
Alaska’s Pebble Mine contains about 1.3% of all the copper metal that has ever been produced or discovered in the world over the last 10,000 years. The mine also contains roughly 1.8% of all the precious gold metal ever produced and is also the largest rhenium deposit in the world. Rhenium is considered to be a rare element and is used in jet engines, high octane fuels and other military applications. Because this rhenium deposit is domestically produced in the U.S., the military considers it to be vital to the long term security of the country. Pebble Mine is also…