Facts
- MSHA status
- Temporarily idled since Feb 19, 2025
- Type
- Surface
- County
- Fairbanks North Star
- State
- Alaska
- Land status (BLM data)
- State land
- Nearest town
- Central
- Employees reported
- 2
- Operator
- North Fork Mining and Exploration
- Coordinates
- 65.4219, -145.1825
- MSHA mine ID
- 5002114
Source: MSHA Mines data set, retrieved 2026-10-13. Status and counts can lag real operations.
Land status comes from the BLM Surface Management Agency dataset and can be out of date. Check ownership before you go near any mine site.
History and geology (USGS)
- USGS site name
- Wyman Placer Mine
- USGS status
- Past producer
- Commodities
- Gold, Silver, Tin
Matched by location to the USGS Mineral Resources Data System record 10184821 (retrieved 2026-10-13). The database was last updated around 2011, so history may be out of date.
Gold mines nearby
- Gold Dust Operations 9 mi · intermittent
- Willow 15 mi · intermittent
- Porcupine Creek Mine 25 mi · intermittent
- Fort Knox Mine 46 mi · active
- Fairbanks Creek Mine 65 mi · intermittent
- 101 66 mi · intermittent
- Pedro Creek Mine 73 mi · intermittent
- Js-4 74 mi · intermittent