The Pebble Project, also known as the Pebble Prospect or Pebble Mine (Project), is a proposed copper-gold-molybdenum mining project in the Bristol Bay region (200 air miles southwest of Anchorage) near Lake Iliamna and Lake Clark in Southwest Alaska. The prospect is proposed by the Pebble Limited Partnership, originally made up of Anglo American along with Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd., though, through divestiture, only Northern Dynasty Minerals remains the only mine developer.  The project would extract copper with significant amounts of molybdenum, gold, silver, rhenium, and palladium, and comprise an open-pit surface mine with associated infrastructure including a 270-megawatt power generating plant, an earthen dam, a 10-square mile containment pond, a 188-mile natural gas pipeline extending to the Kenai Peninsula, mine and port access roads, an 18-mile crossing of Illiamna Lake, and a port facility on the western shore of Cook Inlet. The developer has carried out detailed environmental and economic studies, and is seeking federal permitting amidst legal challenges and public debate.