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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 ...
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 of underground workings yielded 1,210 ounces of gold .
Most of the gold recovered from the Admiralty mining district (which consists of Admiralty Island) is a by product of silver and base metal mining. 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 ...
Savannah is the co-anchor of TODAY at NBC News. She also serves as NBC News' chief legal correspondent and as a primary anchor for the network's election coverage. She joined TODAY as a co-host of ...
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Treadwall Mining. 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.
Remember going to crowded outdoor concerts? Hoda Kotb does. One of the perks of being an anchor on NBC’s venerable “Today” morning show is getting to see Jason Mraz or Aerosmith belt one out ...
The KTUU news team routinely wins regional and national awards and in 1999, became the first television station in Alaska with their own satellite uplink truck (NewsStar 2). The National Press Photographers Association named KTUU the Small Market Television News Photography Station of the Year in 2006, 2008 and 2010. [ 21 ]