Title from caption: "No. 1 above Discovery Cleary Creek, Alaska, Fairbanks mining dist." Written on front of postcard, " Showing mode of dumping the buckets of gravel which is taken out of ground. Sluice boxes on troughs are laid at side of...
61 second film clip, black & white silent Clip shows gold miners panning, using rocker boxes and sluice boxes. Narration describes small-scale gold mining.
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6 min, 22 sec film clip, color/silent. Footage includes: men operating a hydraulic "giant", men drilling thaw points, interior and exterior operations of a gold dredge, excavation by bulldozer and steam shovel, men sluicing gold and scooping...
Title taken from caption. "9299 -- (39) Here we see the miners digging loose the bank and shoveling the dirt into the stream. Sometimes blasting is used to loosen the bank. The stream carries the soil with the gold which is in it to a sluice...
Title taken from caption. Cataloguer's note: A close-up shot of miners at work. A miner seen here is pouring water in the sluice box; a basic method used to separate (by washing out) dirt from gold. As noted on the photograph, this image is...
Title taken from caption. Cataloguer's note: A view of the gold claim and men at work. Note the man with the pick-ax, half-way up the dirt pile, behind the three men at the sluice box.
Title taken from caption. "Mastodon Mining Co. bought the ground from former owner - old man, Gus Erickson. Company paid $37,000 in 1933. I helped Gus to mine early in the spring. Later, Gus left the place and he gave the cabin to me. The...
Title taken from caption. "Circle district in 1937 or 1938. Elevated sluice boxes supported by well built trestles." Photograph type and size: 35 mm neg. 74 - 6, 3 1/4 x 4 1/4.
Title taken from caption. 1937 or 38 ? Mastodon Creek (way ahead after creek) Placer Mining operation. Elevated boxes used very efficiently. Pay dirt and lots of rocks (schist slabs) was dumped by the dragline into well constructed box with...
Title taken from caption. "In 1935 or 1936. 120 horsepower centrifugal pump against 100 feet head was used. In take - 12" pipe, outlet - 14" connected to 18" pipe delivering the water up to creek to the elevated boxes (Sluice boxes)." ...
This is a view of a bridge-like structure, perhaps used to transport sluice boxes and similar items. Notice the small waterfall and the moving water down below.
A man is standing next to the pipeline and the pressure hose is in operation. The high pressure water is evident by the mist seen here on the left. The sluice box is also visible in the center as well as, the still water from the creek located to...