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Clips of a small rig drilling prospect holes in advance of a gold-mining dredge at either the Coal Creek or Woodchopper Creek historic mining camps, located in what is today the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve in eastern Interior Alaska. By drilling and testing for gold concentrations at regular intervals, a map could be made of an entire creek valley. This map then allowed gold mining companies to aim their giant dredges toward the highest concentrations of gold (Color/Silent/16mm film).

This sequence contains excerpts from AAF-138 from the Cordle collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives.

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