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Alaskan Tokeen Grey Marble Quarry on Marble Island Alaska
Mining of Industrial Minerals in Southeast Alaska
In the mountainsides of Southeast Alaska, prospectors also located what are known as the industrial minerals, the nonmetallic, non-fuel resources essential to construction and for industry. The importance of these non-metallic to the industrial economy is easily overlooked. They are bulky and usually low-value products. Their production is seldom dramatic, and there is often not the opportunity to get rich quickly which lured so many to gold mining.
