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  2. Fairbanks Gold Rush - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Tanana River - Wikipedia

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    Fairbanks, a metropolitan area with about 100,000 residents in 2019, is a center of placer gold mining, which has continued in the basin since the mid-19th century. Limited farming also occurs in the valley near Fairbanks. [10] During World War II, it was proposed to resettle Finnish refugees in areas around the Tanana River (Operation Alaska ...

  4. Gold mining in Alaska - Wikipedia

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    The Greens Creek mine is a silver-lead-zinc-gold mine owned and operated by Hecla Mining, located on private and federal land in the Admiralty mining district, 18 miles (29 km) southwest of Juneau. The Greens Creek deposit is a polymetallic, stratiform, volcanogenic massive-sulfide deposit that opened in 1989.

  5. Fairbanks mining district - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. Felix Pedro - Wikipedia

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    Pedro Creek in Tanana, Alaska. Felix Pedro's discovery of gold here in 1902 began the Alaskan gold rush. Felix Pedro discovered gold in the Tanana Hills northeast of Fairbanks on or about July 22, 1902 [6] in a small unnamed stream (now known as "Pedro Creek") northeast of Fairbanks, prompting him to exclaim "There's gold in them there hills ...

  7. Goldstream Dredge No. 8 - Wikipedia

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    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 cut a 4.5-mile (7.2 km) track and produced 7.5 million ounces of gold. [2]

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