Wrapping up our tour of Nome’s (and the surrounding area) history of gold mining with this video... With this circuit around the outskirts, hence the "ring around Nome" theme, we cover some more of the modern placer gold mining taking place as well as some more of the history by visiting the well-known Swanberg Dredge on the outskirts of Nome.

We also took the Jeep up to the White Alice station above Nome for a view down on the flats leading out to the Bering Sea. I thought this gave an excellent vantage point to see how thoroughly worked that small area has been for gold and where things are in relation to each other. The ponds seen in the video show where work is taking place now, but the rest of the land you can see has all been turned over at one point or another before as well.

The mining activity that you see in this video is working the placer gold of the ancient beaches, which is why the mining is taking place inland, away from the current beach.

I hope you enjoyed this visit to Nome and its surroundings. If nothing else, it is a lot cheaper to come along this way than to go in person!

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Growing up in California’s “Gold Rush Country” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.

These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that colorful niche of our history is gone forever. But, you know what? We enjoy doing it! This is exploring history firsthand – bushwhacking down steep canyons and over rough mountains, figuring out the techniques the miners used and the equipment they worked with, seeing the innovations they came up with, discovering lost mines that no one has been in for a century, wandering through ghost towns where the only sound is the wind... These journeys allow a feeling of connection to a time when the world was a very different place. And I’d love to think that in some small way we are paying tribute to those hardy miners that worked these mines before we were even born.

So, yes, in short, we are adit addicts… I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!

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