Alaska’s Pebble Mine Project Provides MAJOR Economic & Employment Benefits

Lorimer Wilson May 26, 2013 Comments Off on Alaska’s Pebble Mine Project Provides MAJOR Economic & Employment Benefits 5,558 Views

The Pebble Mine Project is a world-class copper, molybdenum and gold deposit in Alaska with the potential to employ over 16,000 in high-paying jobs across a wide range of industries for 30+ years boosting the state ecomomy and generating significant tax revenues in the process.

The following infographic* was originally posted at www.visualcapitalist.com under the title The Pebble Project: Economics and Employment.

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*http://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-pebble-project-economics-and-employment (This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License; Copyright 2012 © Visual Capitalist. The Pebble Limited Partnership (PLP) was created in 2007 by co-owners Northern Dynasty and Anglo American plc to design, permit, construct and operate a modern, long-life mine at Pebble. Both companies have equal representation on the Pebble Partnership Board of Directors. This infographic was designed to summarize the results of a report by IHS Global Insights on the economic and employment impact of the proposed Pebble Mine in Alaska.)

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Alaska’s Pebble Mine Project Provides MAJOR Economic & Employment Benefits

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