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Norton Sound seabed mining
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Summary
U.S. Department of the Interior contemplating a minerals lease sale for commercial seabed mining off the coast of Nome.
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What the public record and Alaska's newsrooms have said about this, as our triage desk logged it. Items here are leads we tracked, not Daily Alaska reporting; stories we published are listed above.
October 29, 2026
Council mulls resolution on moratorium for seabed miningThe Nome Nugget · reported
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Last updated October 29, 2026 · Stories: 0