Alaska Mining Superstore

[flakmagnet]

That is hands down the best mining and prospecting outlet I've ever seen and far beyond anything I could have imagined. I especially love the variety of dredging equipment. It's been a long time since I was dredging and I miss it every day.

Congratulations.

[Cal_Cobra]

That's a great legacy to leave behind, really something to be proud of. 

[UtahRich]

Dang - opportunity for a road/plane trip to Alaska missed!    Steve, I need more lead time.    ?

[okara gold]

Hey Steve. Congratulations on a lifetime of dedication to your passion and the positive outcome you have had on the thousands of people you have helped over the years, and continue to inspire today. That store is awesome! 

[Dean Stone]

Very nice store, You just need to find some nice gold claims to lease, and rent to us dumb butts that don't know how to go about that. That way you can make money with your store and on the claims. We can rent a week or two from you every summer .

[Steve Herschbach]

On 2/28/2023 at 11:40 PM, GeoBill said:

I have to ask.

When I was working in Alaska, I'm guessing in the early to mid '80s, I picked up a T-Shirt from a mining supply store in Anchorage that had in large letters "SUCK ROCKS" and in smaller letters "with a Keene Gold Dredge". My wife coveted that shirt and it went with her when we parted. I missed that shirt (I guess more than the ex) and went over to the Keene Engineering store in in LA to see about getting another one. Their answer, was Nope, only available in Alaska.

Any chance that was your store? Would love to get another.

Cheers

The shirts are now in stock again. Though now it says "SUCK ROCKS..... with a gold dredge" to make it generic to all brands.

I was just up at the new mining store and am happy to report they just broke a million dollars in sales for their first year, and actually turned a profit even with all the startup expenditures, both items exceeding our expectations. I'm working on a new catalog website for them right now, but it will be an ongoing project to add product and photos for the next few months. The main issue being good photos, as for a lot of our stuff there are only poor ones or none to be snagged on the internet. I may have to go up again just to spend a week getting product photos. Anyway, still fleshing out the framework/details and but it is mainly functional at this time at https://miningsuperstore.com/

We might go to direct online sales down the road, but it is not really the main focus, as sales figures with no website at all might reflect. We are adding Gold Claimer brand trommels and such this year, and things like that are not really point and click shopping. But we do want people to be able to see what is on hand more without having to make a drive from Talkeetna or Fairbanks, or flight from Nome, and the catalog site will help with that.

The employee owned stores as a whole had record sales and record profits - again. We had a fabulous company breakfast meeting on the last day where Dudley and I announced the big news and handed out the bonuses. Not only did we get a tear jerking standing ovation but the crew gave Dudley and I each a memento. Very satisfying. 

[phrunt]

The story behind the store is great and the staff are clearly so proud to be part of it all.  A life changer for many.

I couldn't help but notice this gold pan/sluice? contraption on the shelves, I've never seen one before, what is it called? I'll have to look it up.

[Steve Herschbach]

Banjo Pan from Gold Cube

https://goldcube.net/product/banjo-pan-worlds-fastest-gold-pan/