What would Alaska be without gold? This video is a glimpse of what it was like to mine gold around the 1960s. These prospectors had the luxury of using mans creations to break up soil and river banks to expose gold. As efficient as it was, this often polluted nearby streams and waterways which was detrimental to salmon populations at the time. It definitely beats the early mining methods; a pan, pickaxe, shovel and water, much more romantic in away. But like everything in life, we progressed and