A Friday story about the Palmer Project gold prospect west of Haines and near the Canadian border used incorrect units of measurement. The project contains 2.6 million inferred grams of gold and 60 million inferred grams of silver, not ounces.
In a Friday article in the Outdoors section about Juneau’s endangered bats, the Empire reported that U.S. Geological Survey data shows that the bat disease white-nose syndrome has killed bats in 25 states. That data provided on the U.S. Geological Survey’s website was out-of-date. White-nose syndrome has now been confirmed in 29 states, according to more up-to-date information from www.whitenosesyndrome.org.
In an news story Thursday about Southeast tribes voicing mining concerns to the State Department, the Empire misidentified the first name of the president of the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska. The president is Richard Peterson, not Robert Peterson.
