Fort Knox gold mine is located about 25 miles northeast of Fairbanks in the Fish Creek drainage, which has been mined for more than a century.

It is owned by Kinross and operated by subsidiary Fairbanks Gold Mining Inc.

You won't find any gold nuggets lying around - the gold at Fort Knox is microscopic - which requires operations on a huge scale to make it economic. Higher grade ore is run through a milling process to extract the gold.

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