Friday, July 15, 2011

Trip to the EL Dorado Gold Mine

El Dorado Gold Mine
The train to the mine

Showing how things work in the Mines

That is one long sluice box

There showing us how they dump the dirt in

the sluice box and tons of water wash it down

the box.Then they clean the grates out and pan

the gold out of the gravel


And this is what they get GOLD
We get a bag of poke and have to pan out the
Gold. They say if you don't have more than 8 pieces
in your pan you will get a new bag of poke.
What you fine in your pan you get to keep and
they will weigh it and tell you what you got.
I had $7.60 and
Donna's Was worth $15.00
and we didn't get rich LOL
This Nugget Is 19oz worth $60,000.00


Was found North of here


They said it is the biggest one found in Alaska


1 comment:

  1. That looks like fun and something I have always wanted to do.

    Helen

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