Emergency federal government assessments are being sought for a spill of more than 105,000 gallons of tailings slurry at the Kensington Mine that occurred Jan. 31, although officials with mine owner Coeur Alaska say no damage to nearby salmon habitats occurred and there are “no long-term effects from this spill.”
The spill occurred at a welded joint in a pipeline that likely started as a “pinhole” and increased in size due to pressure from the…