Kensington mine

Kensington mine is a gold mine located 45mi north of Juneau, Alaska. The present mine is owned by Coeur Alaska Inc., a subsidiary company of Coeur Mining.Disambiguation: The Kensington mine has dual operational timeframes and locations. The historic workings exist near the top of the ore body, about 2000 feet and more above sea level. These workings were mined in the early 1900s, while the modern Kensington mine accesses the ore body 1,100 feet deeper and is advancing up and down from that point, eventually reaching the historic workings sometime in the late teens of 2000.The Current Kensington Mine consists of a land package that stretches from Slate Creek Cove in Berners Bay, over Lions Head Mountain, and west to Comet Beach on Lynn Canal. The property is divided into two primary parts, with the northern and western portions generally described as the Kensington side, and the southern and eastern portions belonging to the Jualin side, as referenced to the historic Jualin Mine.The first recorded gold production from what would eventually become the Berners Bay district came from the Northern Lights claim on the Johnson vein in 1887. By the early 1900s, numerous other gold-bearing quartz veins had been discovered and mined. These included the Ophir, Bear, Kensington, Horrible, Ivanhoe, Northern Belle, Comet, Johnson, and the Jualin Mine. Intermittent production continued until the late 1920s when organized mining of the Jualin Mine ceased. Attempts were made to revive the Kensington and Jualin mines during the 1930s with little success, and the district became completely inactive by the beginning of World War II.