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Helicopter flying over a glacial valley in Alaska.

Helicopters unlock mineral exploration

With a world now connected by commercial aircraft, defended by sound-breaking jets, and explored by the bizarre rotors of a helicopter, aviation is a concept now often taken for granted but still no... — Updated 9/14/2023 Full story

 
An infographic showing the composition of an electric vehicle battery.

Alaska's crust: A battery to clean energy

For those in the know, Alaska's resources aren't just some surprise windfall for renewable energy technologies. While precious metals like gold and silver have been the primary focus of more than a... — Updated 8/24/2023

 
Kate Carmack posing for a photograph in Seattle wearing pure gold jewelry.

Woman who helped discover the Klondike

For over a century, the men of the Discovery enjoyed the reputation, renown, and riches; now, Kate Carmack will be remembered too. Tales of the original Klondike discoverers that opened the floodgat... — Updated 6/29/2023 Full story

 
Alaska Aviation Hall of Fame Ron Sheardown Canada Nunavut exploration mining

Pioneering explorer, pilot Ron Sheardown

Few men and women could attest to having lived with an adventurous spirit and actually having gone and adventured, but this isn't so for mining and aviation pioneer Ronald Sheardown. Soon to be... — Updated 6/15/2023 Full story

 
A replica of the original locomotive brought to Canada in 1836.

Canada was built on the back of a train

While the journey west during the frontier days often paints a picture of strife and hardship, not every tale was filled with sorrow and loss. Although covered wagons were definitely a thing, the... — Updated 5/4/2023 Full story

 
Wesley Earl Dunkle's flight logbook at the Alaska Aviation Museum.

Alaska still feels the work of Wesley Dunkle

As we honor tradition and significant achievement toward mining, mineral exploration, or all-around trailblazing in Alaska, there are many individuals who have been immortalized through the Alaska... — Updated 12/3/2022

 
Eerie photo of Slide Cemetery in Dyea, Alaska, from the Palm Sunday Avalanche.

Eerie vision of Far North ghost towns

For this special spooky edition, North of 60 Mining News is revisiting some of the most bizarre and disturbing ghost towns in its northern coverage area. From one of the most haunted places in... — Updated 10/10/2022 Full story

 
Multimillionaire Charles “Chuck” Fipke, holding a bag of samples.

Sky-high success, feet firmly on the ground

It all began in 1991, when geologists Charles E. Fipke and Stewart Blusson found 81 small diamonds at Lac de Gras in Northwest Territories, Canada, marking the first diamond pipe discovery in North... — Updated 7/21/2022 Full story

 
Lucky Show Contango ORE Willow Creek Mining District Robert Lee Hatcher map

Willow Creek Mining District revisited

Roughly a 90-minute drive from Anchorage, it can be easy to miss Willow as one makes their way northbound. The view of Denali on the horizon, perhaps a visit to the Princess Lodge or a journey to... — Updated 3/3/2022 Full story

 
Kennecott Copper Mine Alaska Syndicate Stephen Birch J.P. Morgan Guggenheim

Alaskan copper mine, once giant of America

"During the two decades preceding and those following World War I, when the United States produced more than half the world's copper, the mines at Kennecott, Alaska were among the nation's largest,... — Updated 1/20/2022 Full story

 
North of 60 Mining News history Nunavut Canada North Rankin Nickel Mine Inuit

Nunavut mine created legacy of partnership

Found within the newest territory of Canada, Nunavut may seem barren and inhospitable, yet it has provided resources and succor to its First Peoples for thousands of years. While European... — Updated 11/18/2021 Full story

 
Alaska Earth Sciences Bill Ellis geologist history Ambler Mining District

Bill Ellis blazes trail of Alaska discovery

Throughout the relatively short modern history of Alaska, many nameless and oft unrecognized explorers have contributed to the Last Frontier state in ways that future generations will never be able... — Updated 9/30/2021 Full story

 
Alaska mining history Dyea Skagway Klondike Gold Rush ghost town Palm Sunday

Dyea, Alaska: The lost sibling to Skagway

If one were to stand in the dense, silent coastal forest at the head of the Taiya Inlet today, it would be nearly impossible to imagine that 123 years prior, this Southeast Alaska locale was home... — Updated 8/12/2021 Full story

 
British Columbia history Canada Tahltan First Nation mining Mehodihi aboriginal

Tahltan people safeguard ancestral home

From the Coast Mountains in the west to the lower parts of the Yukon's Boreal forest in the north, the Cassiar Mountain range in the east, and the headwaters of the Nass and Skeena Rivers in the... — Updated 6/24/2021 Full story

 
Apollo-Sitka gold mine Unga Island Alaska Aleutian Islands Aleut history mining

Forgotten chain of Alaska mining history

After the United States' purchase of Alaska, and before the boom brought on by the Klondike Gold Rush, a small island just off the Alaska Peninsula would have gold-bearing quartz discovered,... — Updated 5/27/2021 Full story

 
history Canada Northwest Territories Yellowknife City First Nations mining

The only city in Northwest Territories

Far to the north lies the second largest of Canada's three territories, simply named the Northwest Territories, and within this vast region of more than 400,000 square miles lies its only city, the... — Updated 4/29/2021 Full story

 
Seattle Washington Alaska Klondike Gold Rush Gateway to the North Yukon history

The man who linked Seattle to Alaska gold

As the historian Murray Morgan once observed, Seattle residents "tend to look on Alaska as their very own... Seattle stores display sub-arctic clothing, though Puget Sound winters are usually mild;... — Updated 3/25/2021 Full story

 
Alaska Commercial Company mining history Klondike Gold Rush ACC Store

The Alaskan business as old as America

"Less than a year after the formal transfer of Alaska from Russia to the United States, there was formed under California law a corporation named the Alaska Commercial Company. Its home office was... — Updated 1/28/2021 Full story

 
Wheels On Ice Edward R. Jesson Dawson City Nome bicycle Terrence Cole

Thousand-mile ride from Dawson to Nome

Over a century ago, a gold rush pioneer set out on an incredible journey of more than one thousand miles across the breadth of Alaska upon his two-wheeled iron steed, braving the brutal winter... — Updated 1/18/2021 Full story

 
Hyder Alaska Stewart B.C. Canada COVID-19 mining history gold rush

Friendliest mining ghost town in Alaska

Resting on the eastern fringe of the Misty Fjords National Monument, at the head of Portland Canal, the Southeast Alaska mining town of Hyder survives through a symbiotic relationship with Stewart,... — Updated 12/3/2020 Full story

 
Placer gold mining Eagle Gold Mine Dublin Gulch Yukon

Over a century of mining in Dublin Gulch

From sourdoughs dipping pans into creeks at the northern edge of the frontier to enormous haul trucks dumping ore on a heap leach pad, the story of Dublin Gulch is a 125-year saga of trials and... — Updated 9/26/2020 Full story

 
Dolly Varden high grade silver mine project Kitsault Valley British Columbia

The valuable lessons of Kitsault Valley

Mining found its way to the remote Kitsault Valley in northwestern British Columbia around 1910, bringing with it the ups and downs typical of mining regions in a bygone era. Roughly 29 miles... — Updated 9/26/2020 Full story

 
Historic ore car Keno Hill Silver District Yukon Alexco Resource

The silver-lined history of Keno City

More than a century-old silver discovery turned settlement may see a revitalization with recent exploration efforts at the Keno Hill District. Lying within the traditional land of the First Nation... — Updated 9/26/2020 Full story

 
Wise Mike Stepovich Captain Barnette Trading Post 1902 Fairbanks Alaska

An Alaskan fortune: 'Wise Mike' Stepovich

A true northern pioneer far from his Eastern European home, 'Wise' Mike Stepovich, settles in a new land and leaves behind a historic legacy in Alaska's Golden Heart City. The history of Fairbanks... — Updated 9/26/2020 Full story

 
Treadwell Gold Mine on Douglas Island near Juneau, Alaska

Unlikely mine district now Alaska capital

The incredibly interesting history of Juneau is a tale of gold, the persistence of a Tlingit chief and a series of chance events that allowed Alaska's future capital to grow and leave its mark on... — Updated 9/26/2020 Full story

 

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