Alaska Pipeline & Gold Dredge

In the afternoon we went to Goldstream Valley near the town of Fox, about 12 miles north of Fairbanks, to see the remains of the Fairbanks Exploration Company's Gold Dredge No. 8. First our guide Tim showed us the finer points of the Trans-Alaska pipeline. Then on a narrow-gauge railroad we rode through the site with a guide explaining the gold dredging process with re-enactors assisting. The final presentation took us to the actual machine itself, Gold Dredge No. 8, a huge machine so large that it altered the terrain it chewed up. Finally we each were given a bag of soil made from the tailings garnered from the site. We sat at a trough with a gold pan and sifted through our soil. Glenda's bag yielded $19 worth of gold; mine yielded $30 worth. We combined our gold and I bought Glenda a little necklace which contained and displayed the gold we had panned.Læs mere