Copper And Copper Compounds
Copper And Copper Compounds at Fort Knox Mine have more than doubled since 2010 (through 2024).
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Fort Knox Mine
Total reported releases 17.6M lb held roughly steady year over year (-2%). Total releases concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.
1 FORT KNOX RD, Fairbanks, Alaska · 212220 · Metal Mining · operated by Kinross Gold CORP (Usa) INC
Anomaly engine
Notable Signals
Manganese And Manganese Compounds
Manganese And Manganese Compounds at Fort Knox Mine have more than doubled since 2010 (through 2024).
Total reported releases
Total reported releases at Fort Knox Mine have more than doubled since 2010 (through 2024).
Copper And Copper Compounds
Copper And Copper Compounds releases at Fort Knox Mine rose from 304k lb to 2.3M lb (7.6×) between 2023 and 2024.
Showing the 4 most editorially weighted signals out of 6. Lower-severity signals fold into the chemical breakdown and history charts below.
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Manganese And Manganese Compounds
Manganese And Manganese Compounds concentrations have fallen 50% since 2015.
Arsenic compounds
Arsenic compounds concentrations have more than doubled since 2016.
Copper And Copper Compounds
Copper And Copper Compounds concentrations have more than doubled since 2011.
Lead compounds
Lead compounds concentrations are up 56% since 2010.
Chromium and Chromium Compounds(except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region)
Chromium and Chromium Compounds(except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region) concentrations have fallen 12% since 2019.
Zinc compounds
Zinc compounds concentrations have fallen 45% since 2015.
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution)
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.
Vanadium compounds
Vanadium compounds concentrations have fallen 31% since 2015.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Fairbanks North Star Borough County, AK (no Census block groups within 3 miles — falling back to containing county): a population of 96,299. Why we surface this →
6.9%
Low-income
32.2%
People of color
7.1%
Under age 5
11.8%
Over age 64
Source: Census ACS 2018-2022 (5-year), county-level fallback. Indicator-level percentile and EJ-disparity scores are surfaced on the county page and the state page — they describe wider regional exposure burdens, not effects attributable to a single facility.
Source. EPA Toxics Release Inventory · retrieved 2026-05-07. Reporting year 2024. TRI is a federal public-domain dataset under 17 USC §105.
What this is not. TRI quantifies releases reported by the facility under EPCRA §313 — not ambient air or water concentrations measured at receptors. We do not attribute individual health outcomes to specific facilities; that exceeds what the data can support.