The barge-turned-gift-shop next to the Tanana Chief Sternwheeler didnât exactly sink. When the Chena River was low, it became frozen to the river bed. When breakup came, and the water rose, the Chena River swallowed it.
âThis was a unique year, and the water just came over everything,â said Craig Ketzler, president of Greatland River Tours. âIt melted fast.â
A recovery effort is in progress, but the Tanana Chief is expected to be closed to river tours for a second summer. Last summer, they were closed due to Covid-19.
Ketzler arrived from California, where he was working, on Sunday to oversee the barge recovery. He had been kept informed of the situation by Roger Burggraf, his stepfather and business partner.
Figure 2: Photo of the decommissioned Grant Mine headframe (left) and core storage warehouse at Grant Mine (right). Drill core from Grant Mine, other parts of the Ester Dome project, and the Treasure Creek project have all been preserved here.
Plans are being made to do an initial round of drilling in Summer 2021. The longitudinal section presented in Figure 3 illustrates the historic mine workings and drill intersections obtained in the 1990s by operators American Copper & Nickel (“ACNC”) and Silverado Gold Mines.
No exploration work has been carried out since the 1990s. Millrock has not independently verified the drill intersections indicated on Figure 3.
Figure 2: Photo of the decommissioned Grant Mine headframe (left) and core storage warehouse at Grant Mine (right). Drill core from Grant Mine, other parts of the Ester Dome project, and the Treasure Creek project have all been preserved here.
Plans are being made to do an initial round of drilling in Summer 2021. The longitudinal section presented in Figure 3 illustrates the historic mine workings and drill intersections obtained in the 1990s by operators American Copper & Nickel (“ACNC”) and Silverado Gold Mines.
No exploration work has been carried out since the 1990s. Millrock has not independently verified the drill intersections indicated on Figure 3.