Feds Begin To Look At Effects Of A Possible Large Spill At Proposed Alaska Mine

By Yereth Rosen

(Alaska Beacon) -- Nearly six years after it approved permits for the Donlin Gold mine, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is launching a new study of a possible large waste spill at the site.

The agency is working on a supplement to its environmental impact statement to comply with a federal court order that found the original environmental study, completed in 2018, to be deficient. U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason ruled in June 2025 that the Corps had...