Meet Morgan

Morgan Lauren is following in the footsteps of her great-grandpa, Herb Boyle, who ventured to Alaska in 1951 to mine. He and his wife, Patricia, settled in Sutton — a small coal mining town.

Morgan’s passion for prospecting started at a young age. Growing up in Alaska she says she doesn’t remember a time before prospecting, “Alaska is freedom and prosperity. If you enjoy the outdoors and prospecting this is the place to be. I’m so thankful to have been born and raised here. Not many kids are raised around the mining industry and I remember not just seeing gold as a kid, but seeing it by the coffee can load.”

Morgan’s family would ride out to remote locations to pan and dredge. The trips slowly grew from quick day panning trips to multi-day dredging as the kids grew older and more capable. Eventually, she started venturing into Alaska’s wilderness to recover gold on her own.

After high school Morgan began working in Prudhoe Bay, AK in the Alaskan oilfield. At 18 she got her foot in the door as a housekeeper while learning about opportunities in the field. About a year later she was picked up by an engineering contractor as a general laborer. It was this job that Morgan says sculpted and pushed her into the remainder of her oilfield career. During her time with the engineering contractor she learned the basics of construction, how to read blue prints, how to weld & build scaffolding, how to sandblast and coat and had her first work related seat time in a loader and skid steer.