Monday, August 8, 2011

#37 FAIRBANKS

Fairbanks is a small city with a big past, gold was found close by and the town developed to serve the miners, There is a real nice University here, and we spent the better part of a day in the museum and watching films about Alaska, the land and the people. The are several active gold mines nearby and we visited this one.

That is a large gold nugget in my hand worth $60,000, with gold now over $1700 it is closer to $70,000. Sadly they would not let me keep it.


Th e university has a musk ox farm, they are big and ugly.





Diane panning for gold.







And she found some, She was able to find a whole lot more in the jewelry store.










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