Alaska Gold Fever Mine Maps — How to Repair Tools

Alaska Gold Fever has no official interactive mine map yet. Mines open through story progress, gold, and tool unlocks, and you revisit them from the town and the surrounding wilderness. The community wiki at alaskagoldfever.wiki sorts the locations into nine claims with their own gold types and unlock gates, while Steam threads from players and the developer name mines such as Mountain Mine, Riverside Mine, and the Abandoned Mine. Use the community list as a planning aid, not an official atlas.

How mines unlock in Alaska Gold Fever

New claims open as you move through the story, spend gold, and unlock tools. The community wiki ties each site to a milestone: the first claim is available on day one, another needs 100 gold, and later mines wait on a cart upgrade, a sluice unlock, an expedition permit, coastal access, or deep mining technology. Because these gates are community-reported, confirm each one in your own save before you plan a route around it.

Once a mine is open you can return to it as often as you like. Early ore is light and cheap to carry, while deeper rock breaks slowly and fills your load fast, so match each trip to what your tools and clothing can handle.

The nine claims listed by the community wiki

The community wiki lists nine prospecting sites and sorts them by size, the gold they favor, a difficulty rating, and an unlock trigger. The table below reproduces that list. It is community data rather than an in-game map, so treat the names as a planning reference and check them against your own journal.

Mine	Size	Gold	Difficulty	Unlock
Eagle River Mine	Small	Dust	Easy	Day 1
Glacier Creek	Medium	Flakes	Medium	100 gold
McKinley District	Large	Nuggets	Very hard	Late story
Bonanza Creek Claim	Small	Dust	Medium	Day 2-3
White Pass Tunnel	Medium	Flakes	Medium	Cart upgrade
Yukon River Bar	Medium	Dust	Medium	Sluice unlock
Chilkoot Ridge	Large	Mixed	Hard	Expedition permit
Nome Beach Sands	Small	Dust	Medium	Coastal access
Tanana Deep Cut	Large	Nuggets	Hard	Deep mining tech

Steam threads use different labels for some locations, including Mountain Mine, Riverside Mine, and the Abandoned Mine, so the community table may not match every name the game shows on screen.

Mine types, gold forms, and difficulty

Alaska Gold Fever separates gold into dust, flakes, and nuggets, and each mine favors different forms. Small claims tend to pay in dust, medium mines produce flakes, and large sites are where nuggets appear. Difficulty rises with rock hardness and depth, which is why tool upgrades matter more than extra hours spent mining.

• Dust runs are the safest start and feed the first tool upgrades.
• Flakes reward a working sluice and steady stamina.
• Nuggets come from large, hard mines and drive the Scrooge achievement.
• Mixed sites give you more than one gold form per trip but leave more waste to process.

Collapse risk, supports, and safety underground

Long tunnels can collapse, and the game gives you support beams and structures to hold the rock back. Placing supports early is cheaper than rebuilding a route after a cave-in. Carry enough light and food for the depth you plan to reach, and keep a clear return path before you start a new shaft. Big mines are also where the developer points players who are chasing nuggets, so expect more rock between you and the good ore.

Repair your tools before a long mine run

A mine map only pays off if your gear survives the trip. Tools and weapons have durability, and a pickaxe that breaks in a deep tunnel wastes the whole run. Repair tools from your inventory by selecting the item and using the repair action, which consumes repair material such as magnetite. Players regularly report that magnetite runs short, and a recent hotfix left some players unable to repair weapons even though tools still repaired, so check your gear at camp before you commit to a distant claim.