Jordan and I went to the Independence Mine. We walked around and looked at the different buildings. It was an entire community with a school, store, houses for families and dorms for the single men. They brought in movies from Wasilla and there were pool tables for entertainment. It was closed down during WWII and then reopened after.This mine used mercury and a very involved process to get the gold out of the rocks. They had very sophisticated equipment and the whole process was over my head. Panning would have been much easier!
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