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Article: The other side of the mountain. (True North gold deposit)
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- Alaska Business Monthly
- Article date:
- July 1, 1997
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The next six months are crucial to the True North gold deposit, a neighbor to the massive Fort Knox Mine, and Fairbanks' best hope for another large-scale, hard-rock gold mine.
About 20 miles north of Fairbanks, Cleary Summit is the peak of the first range of hills north of town. Gold prospectors opened the area almost 100 years ago with some of the first strikes in Interior Alaska.
A thriving community of miners and families formed on the north side of Cleary Summit, living close to both placer and hard rock mines that dotted the spruce- and birch-covered hills. Later, massive dredges worked creek drainages in the area, both near the Chatanika Gold Camp and ...