Gold mining operations

Clip of gold mining operations. Scenes include hydraulicing, point slamming, dredge operations, sluicing, aerial dragline, molten gold being formed into bricks, and weighing of gold bricks (Color/Silent/16mm film).

This film sequence is an excerpt of AAF-1091 from the Machetanz Collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska & Polar Regions Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks.

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