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Entrepreneur answers call of the wild

Gold-seeking couple in Chicken captures national hardrock mining award; incorporates tourism business into reclamation vision

When a University of Alaska Fairbanks professor moonlighting as a consultant asked student Mike Busby to drive out to a gold mine north of the city, Busby had no idea the day trip would change his life.

It turned out the mine was looking for workers and hired Busby on the spot. That opportunity in the mid-1970s thrust Busby into a gold mining career in Interior Alaska that has lasted for 30 years....

 
 

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