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

Millrock Resources Inc. has cut a deal to buy the Apex-El Nido property, home to two historical high-grade gold mines in Southeast Alaska that have largely been forgotten.

Located on Chichagof Island, about 70 miles southwest of Juneau and about the same distance northwest of Sitka, the Apex and El Nido mines churned out at least 17,000 ounces of gold from ore that averaged about 1.4 ounces per...