Coal Mining in Alaska: Coal Fields of the Alaska Engineering Commission
Unwritten Record
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Mining has been a vital part of Alaska’s economy for hundreds of years. Often when we think of mining in Alaska, we think of gold mining and the gold rush of the late 1800s. An English trader named Captain Nathaniel Portlock first found coal at Coal Cove (presently Port Graham) on the Kenai Peninsula in 1786.
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