Alaska geologists find use in minerals survey

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Speaking geologist is a foreign language to most, but understanding excitement is universal.

It is written all over Melanie Werdon’s face and loud and clear through her voice as she talks about the good old fashioned detective work of Alaska state geologists that led to significant findings of gold and strategic mineral anomalies during 2011 both in William Henry Bay north of Juneau and at the Moran deposit west of Fairbanks.