nome alaska gold mining

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  Nome Gold Mines, Alaska - The Center for Land Use …

  202446 · Nome is an historic gold mining town on the western edge of Alaska, notable especially due to its remote location on the extreme northwest edge of the North American continent. The area inland from town is churned up by historic dredging operations. Current gold mining activities are relatively minimal. In the 1990's, the Alaska Gold company ...

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  Nome, Alaska – Mining on the Richest Beach on Earth

  20161113 · Gold Rush to Nome, Alaska. Nome is a fascinating little town in Western Alaska. Gold miners found millions of ounces of gold by prospecting on the beaches.

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  Corps denies permit for company seeking to dredge for gold …

  2022913 · The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers rejected an application from a company seeking to dredge for gold in Safety Sound east of Nome.

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  PLACER MINES | AMA

  Placer [plas-er] gold mining in Alaska began in the 1800s when Russian miners first discovered deposits on the Kenai Peninsula. However, no gold production occurred at the time. It wasn’t until 1870, when placer miners in Southeast Alaska, through dogged determination and intense exploration efforts, discovered vast deposits of ore, launching …

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  Underwater miners off Nome, Alaska, get a reality show - MINING…

  2012127 · Reality show producers, who have made shows about ice road trucking and underground coal mining in Virginia, have now turned their lens on underwater gold miners that work the waters off Nome, Alaska.

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  Gold Rush Heritage in Nome, Fairbanks, & Girdwood | Travel Alaska

  2  · Learn about Alaska's gold rush on this six-day itinerary to history-oriented places around the state including Fairbanks, Girdwood, and Nome.

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  The Beginning of the Nome Gold Rush (In Pictures)

  This one was found just below Anvil Creek in 1899 by the Pioneer Mining Company. It was those methods that produced a staggering amount of gold in the first shipment from Nome, Alaska to Seattle, Washington in 1899. The first few years saw an explosion of people flock to Nome with over 30 miles of tents stretched along the beaches at one point.

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  The Real Insane Story of the Nome Gold Rush - Bering Sea …

  On July 10, 1899, the gold prospecting camp called Nome City almost exploded into violence. A miner’s meeting was called to order in the Northern Saloon – where almost 600 angry men gathered in the large tent intending to declare all of the existing mining claims in the Nome district void and illegal, and to reopen some of Alaska’s ...

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  Where to Stay in Rugged Nome, Alaska: Hotels, B&B’s,

  This Nome Alaska, hotel is chock full of gold mining decor, and aptly so, the Dredge #7 Inn is owned and operated by a mining family with three generations of Nome Alaska mining ties. The swanky (for Nome) digs are located just outside of town, right off the Nome-Teller Road, in the middle of the arctic tundra.

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