A semi-tractor trailer hauling a load of gold ore hit the ditch Sunday after the driver lost control of the rig near milepost 1402 Alaska Highway, about 20 miles south of Delta Junction.
Alaska State Troopers said no one was injured.
The northbound truck operated by North Pole-based Black Gold Transport went off the roadway at about 8:30 a.m. Sunday.
The company called in two heavy wreckers to pull the truck and its two side-dump trailers back onto the roadway. The trailers were loaded with ore from the Kinross Manh Choh mine, near Tetlin.
Black Gold trucks run an average of 60 round trips every day over the 240-mile route hauling ore from the mine to the Kinross mill near Fox, north of Fairbanks.
Trooper spokesperson Justin Freeman said in an email that both lanes of traffic were blocked and backed-up for about a half-hour while the two wreckers recovered the truck and trailers. After that, traffic from both directions was routed onto a single lane until the rig and its trailers were removed later in the afternoon.
Editor's note: This story has been revised.
