<P> Gold is found and has been mined throughout Alaska; except in the vast swamps of the Yukon Flats, and along the North Slope between the Brooks Range and the Beaufort Sea . Areas near Fairbanks and Juneau, and Nome are responsible for most of Alaska's historical and all current gold production . Nearly all of the large and many of the small placer gold mines currently operating in the US are in Alaska . Six modern large - scale hard rock mines operate in Alaska in 2008; four of those are gold - producing mines (an additional gold mine suspended production in late 2007). There are also some small - scale hard rock gold - mining operations . Alaska currently produces more gold (in 2015: 873,984 troy oz from hard rock mines, and 74,360 troy oz (five - year average) from placer deposits) than any state except Nevada . In 2015, gold worth $1.01 billion accounted for 37% of the mining wealth produced in Alaska . Zinc and lead, mainly from the Red Dog mine, accounted for 53%; silver, mainly from the Greens Creek mine, accounted for 8.5%; and coal accounted for 1.5% . Alaska produced a total of 40.3 million troy ounces of gold from 1880 through the end of 2007 . </P> <P> The following are active gold - producing mines and advanced lode exploration or development projects . </P> <Ul> <Li> The Fort Knox mine is located within the Fairbanks North Star Borough, 25 miles (40 km) northeast of Fairbanks . The mine site is located primarily on State of Alaska and the Mental Health Trust lands . The mine is a wholly owned by Kinross Gold Corporation . The mine opened in 1996 and in 2015 produced 401,553 troy ounces (27,535.1 lb; 12,489.7 kg) of gold . Fort Knox is an open - pit operation using carbon - in - pulp, heap leach, and gravity processes to recover gold . At the end of 2015 there were reserves of 162.4 million tons at 0.012 ounce of gold per ton (0.37 g / t), sufficient to carry the mine plan into year 2020, within a total identified resource of 284.4 million tons at 0.013 ounce per ton (0.40 g / t), containing 1,900,000 troy ounces (59,000 kg) of gold . Total 2015 employment at Fort Knox was 657 full - time - equivalent positions . </Li> <Li> The Pogo underground gold mine is owned and operated by Sumitomo Metal Mining and Sumitomo Corp., on State of Alaska - owned land 38 mi (61 km) northeast of Delta Junction in the Goodpaster district . In 2015 it produced 283,000 troy ounces (8,800 kg) of gold from stacked, shallow - dipping quartz veins up to 65 ft thick (20 m). Pogo had 350 full - time - equivalent employees on site in 2015 . </Li> <Li> The Kensington underground gold mine, owned by Coeur Mining, is located 45 air miles north of Juneau and 35 air miles (56 km) south of Haines, located in the Berners Bay mining district . Access to the mine is by air or sea . The ore deposit consists of multiple mesothermal quartz, carbonate, and pyrite vein swarms and discrete quartz--pyrite veins hosted in Cretaceous diorite . Ore is processed in a flotation mill that produces a gold - bearing concentrate . In 2015 128,865 troy ounces (4,008.1 kg) of gold were produced from 21,829 tons of concentrate that were shipped to an off - site refinery . The December 2015 Proven and Probable Reserve was 2.8 million tons of ore at 0.198 ounces of gold per ton (6.16 g / t) with 560,000 troy ounces (17,000 kg) of contained gold out of a total identified resource, inclusive of the Proven and Probable Reserve, of 6.7 million tons at 0.263 ounces of gold per ton (8.18 g / t). There were 332 full - time - equivalent employees at Kensington at the end of 2015 . </Li> <Li> The Greens Creek mine is a silver - lead - zinc mine owned and operated by Hecla Mining, located on private and federal land in the Admiralty mining district, 18 miles (29 km) southwest of Juneau . The Greens Creek deposit is a polymetallic, stratiform, volcanogenic massive - sulfide deposit that opened in 1989 . In 2015, Greens Creek produced 60,566 troy ounces (1,883.8 kg) of gold . The mine also produced 8,452,153 troy ounces (262,891.3 kg) of silver, 61,934 tons of zinc and 21,617 tons of lead . As of December 31, 2015, Hecla reported a Proven and Probable Reserve of 7.2 million tons of ore at 12.3 ounces of silver per ton, 2.80 g / t (0.09 oz / t) of gold, 3.0 percent lead, and 8.1 percent zinc, sufficient for a remaining mine life of 10 years . The total identified resource, including proven and probable reserves, is 11.7 million tons at 12.3 ounces of silver per ton, 0.09 ounce of gold per ton, 2.9 percent lead, and 7.6 percent zinc, containing nearly 143 million ounces of silver . There were 418 full - time - equivalent employees in 2015 . </Li> </Ul> <Li> The Fort Knox mine is located within the Fairbanks North Star Borough, 25 miles (40 km) northeast of Fairbanks . The mine site is located primarily on State of Alaska and the Mental Health Trust lands . The mine is a wholly owned by Kinross Gold Corporation . The mine opened in 1996 and in 2015 produced 401,553 troy ounces (27,535.1 lb; 12,489.7 kg) of gold . Fort Knox is an open - pit operation using carbon - in - pulp, heap leach, and gravity processes to recover gold . At the end of 2015 there were reserves of 162.4 million tons at 0.012 ounce of gold per ton (0.37 g / t), sufficient to carry the mine plan into year 2020, within a total identified resource of 284.4 million tons at 0.013 ounce per ton (0.40 g / t), containing 1,900,000 troy ounces (59,000 kg) of gold . Total 2015 employment at Fort Knox was 657 full - time - equivalent positions . </Li>

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