Pogo Mine
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
$250 per person 
A visit to the underground gold mine located near Delta Junction, Alaska. Depart Westmark Hotel at 7 a.m. by bus to tour the new Pogo Gold Mine project located 145 km southeast of Fairbanks in the upper Goodpaster River Valley. The Pogo deposit has a defined probable resource of 7 million tonnes grading 16.12 g/t.  The Pogo Gold Mine began production in 2006 with expected annual gold production of 350,000 to 450,000 ounces over the 10 year life of the mine. Seats limited to the first 30. So signup soon.

Fort Knox Gold Mine
Saturday, March 22, 2008.
$125 per person. Limited seating.
Depart Westmeark Hotel at 8 a.m. by bus to tour the Fort Knox Mine operated by Fairbanks Gold Mining Co., subsidiary of Kinross Gold Corp.  This ope-pit mine is 42 km northeast of Fairbanks and mined by conventional open pit methods.  The Fort Knox Mine will have produced 4 million ounces of gold by the time of the field trip at an average grade of 0.025 ounces per ton (0.857 g/t Au).  A new heap leach facility is projected to continue gold production through 2017.