Tagged: hard-rock mining

Nordale Adit at Homestake mine a remnant of Fairbanks hard-rock mining

Before the development of Fort Knox gold mine northeast of Fairbanks, it’s likely that most people had only heard about the Fairbanks area’s placer gold production. The early drift mines and later dredges that...

Headframe and garage all that’s left at historic Nordale Adit

We drove out to the Wolf Creek area northeast of Fairbanks this weekend to take a look at the Nordale Adit—the entrance to an old hard-rock gold mine. The mine (on the north side...