North of 60 Mining News - The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North

One of six new 190-ton Caterpillar haul trucks hit the dirt at the open pit Fort Knox gold mine near Fairbanks, Alaska, on Sept. 1, part of a $15 million-plus capital investment in the mine's dirt-moving fleet this year.

Fairbanks Gold Mining Inc., a subsidiary of Toronto-based Kinross Gold, has gone on a $24 million-plus equipment shopping spree this year and last, increasing capacity of the F...