Searching for a Strike. Stocky Yrjoe Korhonen pans for nuggets and gold grain in a creek near the Lemmen River of northern Finland, some 250 miles north of the Polar Circle. He uses the same primitive methods as the prospectors who worked the old Klondike and Yukon strikes in America.

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Searching for a Strike. Stocky Yrjoe Korhonen pans for nuggets and gold grain in a creek near the Lemmen River of northern Finland, some 250 miles north of the Polar Circle. He uses the same primitive methods as the prospectors who worked the old Klondike and Yukon strikes in America.

Associated Press · [ca. October 1965]

RightsCC0 — Public Domain

CollectionDigital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

[Information from item housing] Gold: Includes Mining

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