The Nixon Fork Mine, located about 25 miles northeast of McGrath, has changed hands numerous times in the last century. The area was mined intermittently by various small operations from 1918-1964, the Nixon Fork mine operated from 1995-1999, and then was re-opened briefly in 2007 by a different operator. Most recently, Canadian-based Fire River Gold Corporation owned the infrastructure at the small underground mine and the right to the mining leases. The mine is already fully permitted and bonded, and almost all the required equipment and infrastructure are still in place which made restarting the operation relatively easy. The mine is powered by an on-site diesel generator facility and the fuel is delivered by air. During the previous opening of the mine, the empty fuel planes returned with ore concentrates to Fairbanks, where the ore was then shipped to Canada for further processing. The most recent plan had also called for for removing the ore by plane, and shipping it from Anchorage to a refining facility in Utah.
Fire River Gold spent around $1.25 million in 2010 on a "Re-Evaluation Program" for the mine. This program also included surface and underground exploration for additional mineral deposits nearby. In February 2011 they released the results of a preliminary economic assessment for reopening the mine.
Fire River’s future plans for Nixon Fork involved extracting the remaining lower grade ores near the existing mine, as well as reprocessing some of the old mine tailings, using cyanide heap leaching. In addition, Fire River was exploring the area for additional deposits
piperdriver0624
Amazing. So much fun to get the DC-6 fully loaded into that strip. I would definitely take more of those strips pretty please 🥺.
thank you so much for sharing
cdc455
Perfect! Thanks a lot for your work, finally some useful destination for the growing virtual DC-6 fleet. Especially since MS/Asobo left out most Airfields in Alaska - even if they were in FSX already (Ganes Creek, Candle...and so on) - leaving us with few destinations for now. So keep up the great work, well appreciated!
JNBennett64
thx 4 the eye candie
DADGAMETIME author
You bet. I also repaired the runway. MSFS had it as asphalt and I changed it to gravel and the appropriate color. Changed it to the correct length and width and flattened the terrain and added eye candy.
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