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Alaskan Gold

A little more than a decade ago, Roger Zack bought a business from a friend and began making products from what he calls one of Alaska's most underappreciated natural resources: moose droppings.

Zack has three "grades" of moose droppings. One is used to make lip chap, while another is large enough to be drilled.

"Most all other nuggets are what we call ‘jewelry class,' or ‘gems of the north,'" he said.

It's a gem of an idea that Zack keeps mining for laughs.

"It won't heal your lips, but it keeps you from licking them," Zack said of the lip chap.

I see these things in the airport all the time. They looked about the right size, but I didn't think they were real.

Now for that gift list....

Economics and Markets Posted by AlexC at January 9, 2007 12:41 AM