Gold mining -- photograph

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Seale, Linda N.

• Pouring liquid gold into a mould to make gold bricks, Giant Mine, Yellowknife, NT, September 1965. Anyone able to carry the 12.5 kg brick one-handed to the Post Office in town, over 3 km away, could keep it. The price of gold was then about CAN$35 per ounce (28 g)

• Date created

  1965-09-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Liquid gold
  • Gold bricks
  • Gold mining
  • Yellowknife, NT
  • Giant Mine
  • Pouring gold
  • 1965
  • Yellowknife, NT

• Type of Item

  Image

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3Z31NP56

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 International