Mystery material comes apt beach of Alaskan villag

State and federal scientists are trying to identify a mysterious orange substance that cleaned up on the shore of a village in northwestern Alaska this week.
Mitchell said the substance also was base in the Wulik River, which streams into the lagoon and is a source of the village's drinking water. She said the village would delay topping off its water cache tanks, which it does every summer so that it has enough water because the winter, until the substance namely identified.
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Kilvalina, a village of almost 430 folk, is about 650 miles northwest of Anchorage, Alaska.
An orange sheen could be seen in the village
Hignutt said it's not swiftly remove what the substance is.


The state Environmental Health Laboratory is preparing to mail samples to scientists by various labs, including a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration laboratory in Juneau, said Emanuel Hignutt, the EHL's interpretative chemistry manager.
The substance also may have rained down aboard the village Wednesday nightfall, because it was found in buckets that some dwellers used to collect rainwater that night, Mitchell said.
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The stuff on the shore had "an oily feel to it, like child oil Cheap Oakley Sunglasses," resident Mida Swan said Friday. She said she detected not odor from the substance.
Residents on Wednesday noticed one orange luster in the lagoon in front of Kivalina, Alaska, and clumps of the substance on the coast, city manager Janet Mitchell said.