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, as well as the Tlingit Indians of Southeast Alaska, and the Russians. In 1900 the prospectors staked out their claims and named those claims the Nikolai Mine.