NOME (AP) — Nome gold miners are expressing outrage about a city letter citing the "negative social impacts" of their industry. Miners stormed the Nome City Council meeting Monday night to voice their anger about the July 15 letter to the state Department of Natural Resources from city manager Josie Bahnke.

By midsummer of 1898 there were 18,000 people at Dawson, with more than 5,000 working the diggings. By August many of the stampeders had started for home, most of them broke. The next year saw a still larger exodus of miners when gold was discovered at Nome, Alaska. The great Klondike Gold Rush ended as suddenly as it had begun.

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File:Two miners with rocker and wheel barrow at Dexter Creek, near Nome, Alaska, circa 1906 (AL+CA 23).jpg

Hegg spent two years in the Nome area, recording images of the mining activities there until he closed his studio in 1902. Hegg moved to Southeast Alaska, where he worked in the Juneau area until 1918. Eric A. Hegg died in San Diego, California, in 1955. From the description of Photographs and published albums, 1898-1905. (UAA/APU Consortium ...

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Alexander McKenzie's plot to corner Alaska's gold proved to be the last great swindle of the original gilded age, as this seamy chapter in our national life gave way to what become known as ...

Butte Creek Mine, Nome Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA : Location: Butte Creek is a west tributary to the Solomon River. The mouth of Butte Creek is 2 miles upstream of East Fork. Mining took place over the lower 0.3 miles of Butte Creek and about 0.5 ...

Gold mining deposit report for "Deposit #Usgs10282346" (#USGS10282346) in Nome County, Alaska.

In Nome Alaska every summer there are prospectors that set up camps on the beach and many make good money in a season. Some are more professional have sluice boxes, pressure washers, seperators etc. Met one person that made 20 grand in a summer when Au was 300 an oz. Low investment if one can live in a weatherport for 4 months.

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The men, employees of a contractor (Alaska Mechanical, Inc.,) were working at the NovaGold Resources' Rock Creek gold mine near Nome, Alaska. The lift basket became unstable and toppled to the ground, killing the two men. The general manager at the mine reported that an MSHA inspection had occurred at the site 10 days earlier.

It was a funny eclectic ball, people were dressed in turn of the century costumes, big decorated hats, miners, mushers, jeans, carharts and ballgowns. It was nome, you could wear what ever you wanted and it really didn't matter. it was great. Bill, spoiled me and took me to the ball and i …

As aging water systems, climate change, and federal and state bureaucracy threaten the public health of Alaska Native villages across the Bering Strait region, local residents struggle to find the funds for critical water & sewer infrastructure. In part one of this two-part series discussing unserviced communities in Western Alaska, KNOM follows the money.

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Erik Lindblom, date unknown. Photo from Alaska's Digital Archives. Of the three partners who discovered the gold fields at Nome, Erik Lindblom was oldest and the one with the least physical preparation for the arduous job of prospecting and mining. …

The list does not include 36 who were drowned when the Jane Gray was lost. Neither does it include the last reported deaths from drowning of the man who left Hotham inlet for Cape Nome. The Indians have reported the boats lost and the men drowned. The two Pickering brothers are said to have been shot by Indians, whom they ill treated.

Circle City Saloon – Nome, Alaska (1902) This proved true for the isolated town of Nome following the discovery of gold there in 1898. By 1899, the area was organized as the Nome mining district, the town had a population of 10,000, and gold kept turning up on the beaches lining the coast of Nome.

The reality series follows miners searching for gold in the waters surrounding in Nome, Alaska. The miners go underwater to gather the gold in the summer dredging and spring ice dredging seasons. Every season, the series brings a different group of gold diggers.

By Alaska Native News on Nov 24, 2014 Bering Straits, North Slope/Northwest Alaska, Rural. In two days, Alaska State Troopers made three separate Assault IV arrests in …

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The Krutzsch family mined their claims near Nome, Alaska for many years under the name of Krutzsch Mining. In the early '60s, the elder Krutzsch who had worked for years as an un.derground gold miner near Fairbanks, Alaska, bought the property which now includes 147 patent mining claims on 400 acres.

Flags to be lowered for former North Pole Rep. Jeannette James. Gov. Mike Dunleavy will lower the flag for former Rep. Jeannette James, who died this week. She was 91. In 1998, James was first elected; she served 10 years for the North Pole area. She authored and passed several notable pieces of legislation including concealed handgun permits ...

File:Two women and a man at the entrance to a mine shaft, probably vicinity Nome, Alaska, ca 1900 (HESTER 264).jpeg

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Last year, two Nome high schoolers filed a suit against one of Nome's main mining companies after the vehicle they were driving struck a cable attached to …

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'Bering Sea Gold' (also known as 'Gold Divers') is a reality television series that follows a bunch of miners and their gold mining activities in and around the Bering Sea near Nome, Alaska. It is the second Discovery Channel series to extensively feature the Bering Sea after the smash-hit 'Deadliest Catch.' In recent seasons, the […]

NOME MINER INJURED. Monte Blair, a well known Nome mining man, was a victim of a seri ous accident recently when he fell from the roof of the boiler house on the Three Star claim, breaking an arm and dislocating a shoulder. He was taken to Nome for treatment-* EXPORTS THROUGH ALASKA The value of the trade with Siber- ! ian and northern Arctic ...