It was a thrill to be at our friend's gold mine near the Yukon river. We drove 2.5 hours to Fairbanks, then another 3 hours to Eureka and got shuttled in the cub to the mine.....only a 20 minute flight. we spent 4 days there ove the 4th of July. These photos show an excavator loading gravel into the sluice box. The big rocks roll off the top, the smaller stuff gets tumbled in the barrel and the gold settles on the carpet as seen above....we are picking nuggets off the carpet.....