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HISTORY
During a heavy metals investigation of the southern Alaska Range in 1967 a U.S. Geological Survey Team discovered occurrences of lead, zinc and silver of potential economic significance. USGS Circular 559 described the find and reported assays of 52.2, 56.3 and 309.8 ounces of silver per ton. The reported cost of this government project was $7 million, and the Bowser Creek exposures were considered to be the find of the summer.
Following the public release of Circular 559, I, Barry Murray, staked the ground for a small limited partnership that was to become The Alaskamin Company.
At this time Alaskamin entered into a joint exploration venture with Homestake and Granby Mining Companies. For the right of first refusal, these major mining companies supplied geologists and operating expenses for a summers season of mapping and sampling.
Len White and J. Buchholz of Homestake Mineral Development Company of Vancouver, B.C., Canada. in June 1968, verifying sampling of the Bowser Creek mineral exposures reported in the release of U.S. Geological Survey in Circular 559, and 569.
The late, great, Alaskan Bush Pilot Don Sheldon (read the book of his life: Wager With The Wind) was part of my team the summer of 1968 that accomplished so much staking, trenching for the homestake geologists,while building a camp consisting of of a log cabin, and seven tent frames.
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