‘You can’t eat money’: Residents challenge Graphite One on proposed mine’s environmental impacts - KNOM Radio Mission

‘You can’t eat money’: Residents challenge Graphite One on proposed mine’s environmental impacts - KNOM Radio Mission

For just over a decade, Graphite One has convened community meetings on the Seward Peninsula to discuss its proposed graphite mine just 36 miles north of Nome. The Canadian mining company is inching closer to entering operations and just this spring completed an extensive feasibility study. The Graphite Creek property, while known for its proximity to the western Alaska hub of Nome, is just 27 miles from the villages of Teller and Brevig Mission…