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Gold-quartz-sulfide hydrothermal vein at the old Grant Mine, Fairbanks Mining District. The Fairbanks mining district is a gold-mining area in the U.S. state of Alaska. Placer mining began near Fairbanks in July 1902, after Felix Pedro (real name Felice Pedroni), an Italian immigrant and Tom Gilmore discovered gold in the hills north of the Tanana and Chena Rivers in 1901.
Goldstream Dredge No. 8 is a ladder dredge operated by the Fairbanks Exploration Company from 1928 to 1959. It is located on the old Steese Highway between Fairbanks and Fox in the central part of Alaska. Starting in the 1920s, water was brought to the area through the 90-mile (145 km) Davidson Ditch for gold mining. The Goldstream Dredge No. 8 ...
Geologic map of the Fairbanks District indicating placer mining along Pedro Creek. The Fairbanks Gold Rush was a gold rush that took place in Fairbanks, Alaska, in the early 1900s. [1] Fairbanks was a city largely built on gold rush fervor at the turn of the 20th century. Discovery and exploration continue to thrive in and around modern-day ...
The Fort Knox Gold Mine is an open pit gold mine, 9 mi (14 km) east of Fox in the Fairbanks mining district of Alaska. It is owned and operated by Toronto -based Kinross Gold . Originally staked in 1913, after very minor mining at the location the property sat idle until being restaked in 1980.
The town of Ruby was established in 1911 as the result of a gold rush. The amount of gold that is in the Fairbanks district is over 8 million troy ounces (250 tonnes) of gold, lodes have yielded over 4 million ounces. [citation needed] Gold was first discovered at the current townsite in 1906 on Ruby Creek. That discovery brought more ...
The Discovery Claim on Pedro Creek is a historic gold mining site in central Alaska.It is located at mile 16.5 of the Steese Highway, northeast of Fairbanks.It is a 19-acre (7.7 ha) site on what is now called Pedro Creek, that was where Felix Pedro made the first major discovery of gold in the area on July 22, 1902.
Coal Creek Historic Mining District; F. Fairbanks mining district; J. Juneau mining district; K. Kasna Creek Mining District; N. Nabesna Gold Mine Historic District;
The Fort Knox Gold Mine north of Fairbanks opened in 1997 after several years of development, [217] and another gold prospect is likely to be developed in the next decade. [218] The same year that Fort Knox Mine opened, Alyeska moved 300 jobs from Anchorage to Fairbanks, making the city the base of its operations for the first time in several ...