Prospecting & Detecting
Northwestern Alaska Mineral Resources
February 2016 by Steve Herschbach
Gold and jade are actually only minor mineral resources for the Northwestern Alaska region as a whole. Modern prospecting has focused more on base metal than precious metal resources.
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