Juneau mining district Juneau mining district The Juneau mining district is a gold mining area in the U.S. state of Alaska. In 1880 a local inhabitant, Chief Kowee, revealed to prospectors Joe Juneau and Richard Harris the presence of gold in what is now named Gold Creek in Silver Bow Basin. The city of Juneau was founded there that year. The strike sparked the Juneau gold rush which resulted in the development of many placer and lode mines including the largest, in their time, gold mines in the world: the Treadwell complex of lode mines on Douglas Island (across a narrow sea channel
Michael J. Juneau Michael J. Juneau Michael Joseph Juneau (born June 29, 1962) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. Juneau was born on June 29, 1962, in Monroe, Louisiana. He received his Bachelor of Science, "magna cum laude", from Louisiana State University and his Juris Doctor, "cum laude", from Harvard Law School, where he was selected as the best oralist in the Ames Moot Court Competition. As a lawyer at his Lafayette-based litigation firm Juneau David, he handled a broad range of civil litigation in state and federal courts across Louisiana.