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2. Willow Creek mining district - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

3. Gold mining in Alaska - Wikipedia

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   The Alaska Empire underground lode mine recovered gold from quartz veins in metamorphic rocks. Discovered and staked in the 1920s, production of about 20,000 tonnes of 0.25 ounce-per-ton gold ore occurred in the mid-1930s.

4. 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.

5. Juneau gold belt - Wikipedia

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   The Juneau gold belt is located in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Alaska. This belt is approximately 100 miles (160 km) in length, north/northwest-trending, [1] and extends from Berners Bay southeastward to Windham Bay, 60 miles (97 km) southeast of Juneau, and includes Douglas Island. [2] [3] : 25 The belt contains over 200 gold ...

6. Crystal Mine - Wikipedia

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   Crystal Mine is located near Juneau in the U.S. state of Alaska. The quartz ledge at the Crystal Mine was first discovered in 1895 by B. Heins. It was so named because of the large pyrite cubes which were found occurring in the surface outcrops of the ledge. Gold was extracted till 1905 from quartz using ten-stamp mill and from about 1,000 feet ...

7. Alaska-Gastineau Mine - Wikipedia

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   Alaska-Gastineau Mine. The Alaska-Gastineau Mine (alternate: Perseverance Mine) [1] was a gold mine in Perseverance, about 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Juneau, Alaska, USA. [2] It was briefly the largest gold mine in the world. [3] The mine was operated by the Alaska-Gastineau Mining Company. [1]