Comment: I have seen coloration from zinc and coal mines in streams, what will uranium do to our waters, that right, uranium mining will never happen in VA!
By: Everett Rosenfeld
An unidentified orange substance is washing up on the shores of an isolated village in northwestern Alaska, and the only thing that investigators can say for sure is that it is not manmade.
Kivalina, a whaling community of about 425 people located in the Northwest Arctic Borough region, has reportedly experienced a rust-colored growth in its water: both in a local lagoon and, according to the Associated Press, even in some resident's rain buckets. What exactly the substance is, no one can yet say, but Anchorage-based NBC affiliate KTUU reported that the Coast Guard is conducting tests to uncover its origin.
"It is not man made, it is not a petroleum substance," Petty Officer David Mosley told KTUU.
Another local theory is that the mysterious growth is a product of a nearby zinc mine, but that has yet to be substantiated. The Red Dog mine is located 46 miles upstream of Kivalina, but a spokesman disavowed any obvious connection between his operation and the orange substance.
Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/08/08/mysterious-orange-goo-washes-up-on-alaska-shore/#ixzz1UabePSqn
