Alaskan Gold: Placer Mining in Interior Alaska

In 1949 the U.S. Smelting and Mining Company hired Alan Probert to produce a film about the fold mining activities in Interior Alaska. KUAC has added a sound track and narration to this original silent 1949 color film. Alaskan Gold illustrates the process of extracting gold under Alaskan conditions, ranging from washing away the frozen overburden and thawing the gravel to dredging the bedrock for