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The Nixon Fork mine was an underground lode gold-copper mine located 32 miles (51 km) northeast of McGrath, Alaska. Placer gold was discovered nearby in 1917, by 1918 hardrock mining was underway, and continued intermittently until 1964.
The mine had a 2 miles (3.2 km) shaft running through Mount Roberts that reached the Perseverance Mine near Gold Creek. [5] It adjoined the Alaska-Juneau Mine. [6] The mine's low-grade ore is situated on a mountain above the Gastineau Channel. Its ore body covered approximately 2,000 acres (810 ha), more than 2 miles (3.2 km) in length, with 20 ...
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 1910 explosion was the worst disaster in Alaska mining history. [7] The mine was still yielding gold in 1917 when the Treadwell, 700-Foot and Mexican mines (excavated to a depth of more than 500 feet (150 m) below sea level under Gastineau Channel) suddenly began leaking and were evacuated. Hours later the mines collapsed.
The Willow Creek mining district, also known as the Independence Mine/Hatcher Pass district, is a gold-mining area in the U.S. state of Alaska. Underground hard-rock mining of gold from quartz veins accounts for most of the mineral wealth extracted from the Hatcher Pass area. The first mining efforts were placer mining of stream gravels, and ...
The Red Dog mine is a large zinc and lead mine in a remote region of Alaska, about 80 miles (130 km) north of Kotzebue, which is operated by the Canadian mining company Teck Resources on land owned by the NANA Regional Corporation.
On July 20, 2021, the Alaska Department of Natural Resources granted Donlin Gold the right to lease state land to build a pipeline that will power its mine. [5] On May 27, 2021, the commissioner for the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation upheld a key state water quality certificate for the Donlin Gold project, citing numerous analyses performed by multiple federal and state ...
Alaska grew up around the eponymous Alaska Mine, where pre-colonial miners are believed to have mined about a million tonnes of ore. Messina Transvaal Development Company (MTD) started producing copper in 1959 and the mine closed in 1977. MTD built a smelter nearby in 1966 and a refinery in 1980.