Placer mining workshops offered
April 4, 2016
One-day introductory workshops for placer miners will be offered in Palmer, Soldotna
and Tok during April and May.
Donald Keill, who has nearly 40 years of experience as a mining engineer and geologist,
will teach an introduction to placer mining workshop April 23 in Palmer, April 30
in Tok and May 14 in Soldotna. Keill is also a certified mineral examiner and the
owner of Keill Engineering in Fairbanks.
The workshop will cover placer exploration and mining, including placer geology, claim
staking, hand and mechanized methods, mining agreements, permitting, mine plans, mining
economics, reclamation and more.
The workshops, offered by the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension
Service, will run from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Palmer and Soldotna. The Tok workshop
will begin an hour later. The fee is $75 or $50 if students register 10 days before
a class begins. Register at http://bit.ly/ces-workshops and see class details at www.uaf.edu/ces.
The workshops will meet in the Kerttula Building at the Matanuska Experiment Farm
in Palmer, the Kenai Peninsula College Steffy Building in Soldotna and at the university
Tok Center. For more information or to schedule a workshop in your community, contact
Meg Burgett at 907-746-9472 or asburgett@alaska.edu.
ADDITIONAL CONTACT: Debbie Carter, 907-474-5406, dscarter@alaska.edu.