...Deep Trench vein and Goat Creek vein,The vein system was discovered in 1988 by Echo Bay Mining Co. and the federal Bureau of Mines.Grande Portage found gold at least 440 feet deep in the Deep Trench vein. It also reported good assays from...
...pursuit plane. In 1942, Japanese troops occupied Attu Island at the end of the Aleutian chain. In 1950, the Federal Bureau of Mines Station was completed on Juneau (Mayflower) Island. In 1969, the M/V Tustumena docked at Anchorage. It...
...pursuit plane. In 1942, Japanese troops occupied Attu Island at the end of the Aleutian chain. In 1950, the Federal Bureau of Mines Station was completed on Juneau (Mayflower) Island. In 1969, the MV Tustumena docked at Anchorage. It was...
...pursuit plane. In 1942, Japanese troops occupied Attu Island at the end of the Aleutian chain. In 1950, the Federal Bureau of Mines Station was completed on Juneau (Mayflower) Island. In 1969, the ferry Tustumena docked at Anchorage. It...
...Engineers in the mid-1960s to help the military figure out how to build roads and buildings on permafrost. The federal Bureau of Mines later excavated a 200-foot-long offshoot to test techniques for Interior Alaska gold prospectors. In the...
...photographs to create a small museum. They named it the Tom Pittman Geology and Mining Museum after a longtime federal Bureau of Mines employee who died in 1992. "The main reason we're doing this is to let the people of Juneau know there is...
...pursuit plane. In 1942, Japanese troops occupied Attu Island at the end of the Aleutian chain. In 1950, the Federal Bureau of Mines Station was completed on Juneau (Mayflower) Island. In 1969, the Tustumena docked at Anchorage after refurbishing...
...family had always wanted to move to Alaska, so when Sarah received a transfer to Alaska through her work with the Federal Bureau of Mines in 1968, their wish was fulfilled. Barry loved hunting, fishing and camping with his son and his friends...
...with her husband and their two children on the Alaska steamship SS Baranof when Miro found employment with the Federal Bureau of Mines in Douglas. In 1954, she re-entered the work force as a clerk stenographer for the Alaska Department of Labor...
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