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Nicolai's Copper: The Nicolai Mine

It all started here:

The property name "Nicolai's Mine Camp" is historically-based on a transaction between Chief Nicolai of Taral and a group of prospectors known as the McClellan Group. In return for a cache of food for his starving people and other considerations that are detailed in my historic novel, "Legacy of the Chief," Nicolai sent his brother Skilly to guide the men to the site where his Native people had extracted copper ore for eon. This site had been used as the Lower Ahtna's main trading commodity with the Eyaks on the coast near present-day Cordova, the Tlingit Indians of Southeast Alaska, and the Russians. The prospectors staked out their claims and named those claims the Nikolai Mine.

Location of Historic Nizina District

NIZINA MINING District: Location of Nicolai Mine

Nicolai Mine

Head of Nicolai Creek

Nicolai Vein

Historic Native villages associated with Chief Nicolai of Taral

Doc Billum

Detail from previous map of Native villages associated with Nicolai

Native Village of Taral

Doc Billum's family at Lower Tonsina

Doc Billum's Ferry

Return to Chief Nicolai

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