AJOT Digital Edition #694

World production of graphite in 2016 was some 1,200,000 tons, with China being the major exporter. None is mined in the United States. If developed, the Alaska-based graphite mine would become the sole domestic source of graphite – high grade Spherical Coated Graphite (CSG.)

When Canada’s Pebble Limited Partnership proposed to develop a mine, over one mile long and 300 feet deep, the mine that would destroy more than 3500 acres of wetland and more than 81 miles of salmon streams in Bristol Bay while it dumps an estimated 1.1 billion tons of ore waste tailings.