Juneau mining district (oz) gold, 1.9 million oz silver, and 40 million lbs lead. Since the late 1970s, with gold prices rising to $600-$800 an oz many claims were staked again. Old prospects and mines were reexamined but did proceed further than that. It was only in 1985, that efforts were made to reestablish the old great Alaska Juneau Mine. The yield from the Mines in the Juneau Gold Belt during the period 1880-83 was worth $157,000,000 from 6.7 million oz gold, 3.1 million oz silver, and 45 million lbs lead. Since 1985, many mining establishments are examining possibilities of restarting some of
Juneau, Alaska ships between the months of May and September. The city is named after a gold prospector from Quebec, Joe Juneau, though the place was for a time called "Rockwell" and then "Harrisburg" (after Juneau's co-prospector, Richard Harris). The Tlingit name of the town is ("Base of the Flounder’s River," ‘flounder,’ ‘base,’ ‘river’), and Auke Bay just north of Juneau proper is called ("Little lake," ‘lake,’ ‘diminutive’) in Tlingit. The Taku River, just south of Juneau, was named after the cold wind, which occasionally blows down from the mountains. Juneau is unusual among U.S. capitals (except Honolulu, Hawaii) in that there