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"Artic" (Arctic) Mining Co. gold placer operation

Arctic Mining Company, Bangor Creek, Nome Borough, Alaska, USA

Hydraulic excavation of gold placers at "Artic" (Arctic) Mining Co site, Bangor Creek, Nome, Alaska circa 1915.

The Report of the Territorial Mine inspector to the Governor of Alaska For the Year 1915 identified Bangor, Little, Anvil, Dry, Boulder, Center, Dexter, Hastings and Hobson Creeks as the principal creeks on which placer mining was ...
Photo ID: 193435    View Count: 60

Beatson Mine

Beatson mine (Beatson-Bonanza Mine; Big Bonanza Copper Mine), Prince William Sound District, Valdez-Cordova Borough, Alaska, USA

The Beatson Mine, at the now-defunct town of La Touche, Alaska, circa 1918.
Photo ID: 202644    View Count: 40

Gold Dredge, Fox, Alaska

Fox Creek Mine (ARDF - LG061), Fairbanks District, Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, USA

A gold dredge operated by the F E Co. (Fairbanks Exploration Co., a subsidiary of United States Smelting Refining & Mining Co.) at work at Fox, near Fairbanks, Alaska, circa 1930's (?)
Photo ID: 164182    View Count: 76

Gold Dredge, Nome circa 1915

Nome Borough, Alaska, USA

No 2 Gold Dredge of the United States Smelting and Refining Co. in operation near Nome Alaska circa 1915. The digging ladder, a mechanized series of buckets which picked up gravel to be sorted onboard the boat, is visible in the front center of the image.
Photo ID: 193511    View Count: 36

Portal to the Apollo Mine

Apollo Mine, Unga Island, Aleutians East Borough, Alaska, USA

Photograph of what appears to be tourists at the portal of the Apollo Mine circa 1900.
Photo ID: 158666    View Count: 96

Red Devil Mine (1942)

Red Devil Mercury Mine (Red Devil Mine), Red Devil, Sleimut District (Sleetmute District), Kuskokwim Region, Bethel Borough, Alaska, USA

Head frame of Red Devil Quicksilver Mine. Kuskokwim Region. 1942. Photo courtesy of USGS.
Photo ID: 206814    View Count: 51
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