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Dozens of fish died near an Alaska gold mine. Two months later, regulators still don’t know what killed them

By Max Graham, Northern Journal October 7, 2024

On the morning of Aug. 9, state biologists discovered dozens of dead fish in a creek near the Kensington gold mine in Southeast Alaska.

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