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Article: Northway Exploration Project Shows Promise: Rock containing gold and silver deposits has been visible from the Alaska-Canada Highway for decades. (Mining Special Section).
- Article from:
- Alaska Business Monthly
- Article date:
- November 1, 2001
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Mineralized rocks from one of the state's most recent gold discoveries have been visible by thousands of Alaska Highway travelers for nearly 60 years.
Since construction of the Alaska-Canada highway in 1942, a hillside road cut at the Northway village junction has exposed rocks containing significant amounts of gold, silver and other valuable minerals.
"The fact that it is sitting on a road is doubly embarrassing to the mining community, because everyone has driven by it going 80 miles an hour," said Curt Freeman, a Fairbanks-based consulting geologist. "Here it is, in our back yard and no one knew it was here."
Despite some earlier exploration ...