The Alaska Miner Spring 2025 6 Legendary miner's life to be on display at UA Museum of the North Alaska mining icon Roger Burggraf has generously donated his personal 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 exhibition on gold mining history that 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 include the transition period into modern large industrial efforts through present day. The exhibit will showcase 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 history in his own words. Stories from historians and other miners will be incorporated as well. The exhibit will feature wall panels 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 newly donated objects mounted directly over the map to highlight local mining history, its geographic scale and Roger Burggraf donating gold collection to museum CONTINUED on PAGE 8 Photo Courtesy Kinross Alaska Roger with Kinross Gold Corporation’s Paul Rollinson at the groundbreaking for the Manh Choh Mine.
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