ALASKA'S FORT KNOX GOLD MINE
The E-Sylum (6/16/2013)
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If you're curious about where some of the gold for new coins comes from, see this article Dick Hanscom forwarded about the Fort Knox gold mine in Alaska. Thanks! -Editor
Fort Knox gold mine is located about 25 miles northeast of Fairbanks in the Fish Creek drainage, which has been mined for more than a century.
It is owned by Kinross and operated by subsidiary Fairbanks Gold Mining Inc.
You won’t find any gold nuggets lying around — the gold at Fort Knox is microscopic — which requires operations on a huge scale to make it economic. Higher grade ore is run through a milling process to extract the gold.
To appreciate the scale of this massive operation, look closely at the below photo. Those tiny specks are big dump trucks. -Editor
To read the complete article, see: Unearthing treasure: Fort Knox gold mine by the numbers (www.newsminer.com/business/unearthing-treasure-fort-knox
-gold-mine-by-the-numbers/article_8da281e6-d3d2-11e2-a863-0019bb30f31a.html)