Alaska Dispatch has published an interactive map plotting Alaska's operating mines, active prospects and abandoned prospects.
Assembled by Ground-Truth Trekking, the map allows the user to click on one of the state's 75 mineral prospects, which brings up a box of key facts including metals, size and corporations involved.
The couple that founded Ground-Truth Trekking, a lifestyle blog centred around foot and paddle treks, "said the map project was started to end the mystery for villagers who sometimes were left wondering why helicopters whoop-whooped overhead," Alaska Dispatch reports.
Source:
http://www.mining.com/alaska-mineral-prospects-mapped/
