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Last Chance Mining Museum

99801 Juneau, AK, United States of America (USA) (Alaska )
Address 1001 Basin Rd
 
 
Floor area unfortunately not known yet  
 
Museum typ Exhibition
Mining
  • Craft
  • Electric motors/generators/pumps
  • Mine- & Parc Railways

Opening times
 Summer: daily 9:30am - 12:30pm and 3:30 - 6:30pm or by appt.

Admission
Status from 07/2023
 $5
call for special rates for private tours and groups.
Contact
Tel.:+1-907-586-53 38   
Homepage
to Location / Directions
www.alaska.org/detail/last-chance-mining-museum
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Location / Directions
N58.307474° W134.401011°N58°18.44844' W134°24.06066'N58°18'26.9064" W134°24'3.6396"
Juneau, is the capital city of Alaska. It is a unified municipality located on the Gastineau Channel in the Alaskan panhandle

Juneau is not directly accessible by road, although there are road connections to several areas immediately adjacent to the city. Primary access to the city is by air and sea. Cars and trucks are transported to and from Juneau by barge or the Alaska Marine Highway ferry system.

Sea

The State-owned ferry system is called the Alaska Marine Highway. The Southeast ferries connect Juneau with 13 other cities in Southeast Alaska and other destinations north via Whittier, as well as with the continental road system in Bellingham, Washington and Prince Rupert, British Columbia. Going north, the ferries dock in Haines and Skagway connecting to the Alaska Highway via Whitehorse Canada.[36] In addition to the traditional Alaska Marine Highway ferries, high speed catamarans known as "Fast cats" connect Juneau with Haines and Skagway in half the time of the traditional ferries, needing around 4 hours travel time.

The Jualpa Mining Camp, also known as the Last Chance Basin Camp, is a former gold mining camp, just outside the city of Juneau, Alaska. Its main building is now operated as the Last Chance Mining Museum by the Gastineau Historical Society. The camp was located on the southern banks of Gold Creek, about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Juneau, near what is now the end of Basin Road.
Description

http://www.alaska.org/detail/last-chance-mining-museum:
Located in the historic compressor building associated with the former Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company which operated in Juneau from 1912 until 1944. The museum features one of the world's largest air compressors and other industrial artifacts associated with hard rock gold mining. The site also includes electric locomotives and rail cars which hauled men to the mine and ore to the mill. Access to the museum is via a short hike up the hill on a trail of uneven terrain-well worth the effort. Museum is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and Alaska Gold Rush Properties.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
The camp was the site of one of the largest gold finds in the Juneau mining district. It was established between 1910 and 1913 by the Alaska-Juneau Gold Mining Company and operated until 1944, producing more than $80 million worth of gold. The largest surviving structure of the camp is its air compressor building, which was 84 feet (26 m) long, and still houses the compressor used by the company. Also surviving are a variety of railroad-related resources, which the company used to bring or to its mill on the Gastineau channel, an electrical transformer house, powder magazine, and cable hoist.

The camp, with a total of 21 contributing buildings and structures, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
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