Photo Courtesy Kinross Alaska
Roger with Kinross Gold Corporation’s Paul Rollinson at the groundbreaking for the Manh Choh Mine.
Roger Burggraf donating gold collection to museum
will be created at the museum. The highly condensed history of Alaska gold mining will include key individuals from the turn of the 20th century, including operators of small claims up to dredges. It will also in- clude the transition period into mod- ern large industrial efforts through present day. The exhibit will show- case alluring gold nuggets, as well as dust and representative ore samples collected over Roger’s lifetime. Audio clips from interviews with Roger will share personal insights to this his-
tory in his own words. Stories from historians and other miners will be incorporated as well. The exhibit will feature wall pan- els and a large, custom-built case in the museum’s Gallery of Alaska. As currently conceived, the grounding visual element will be a geologic map of Interior Alaska with many new- ly donated objects mounted directly over the map to highlight local min- ing history, its geographic scale and
Legendary miner's life to be on display at UA Museum of the North Alaska mining icon Roger Burg- graf has generously donated his per- sonal gold collection to the Univeristy of Alaska Museum of the North in Fairbanks. The collection spans his nearly 50-year career as a miner and mine operator, and will be part of an ex- hibition on gold mining history that
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The Alaska Miner
Spring 2025
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