Indian Valley Mine: Indian, Alaska

We met some friends here who had planned the trip, so I hadn’t done a lot of research ahead of time. The kids were hoping to actually dig through an open field of dirt, but instead this place provides buckets of dirt to search through. There were 10.00, 20.00, 50.00 and 100.00 dollar paydirt buckets available. Once we got our bucket, the staff members were very helpful in explaining the process and helping individual kids. There were small gold flakes and other very small pieces of gemstones in our dirt. The kids had fun sorting through the dirt very slowly in small batches. My two split a 20.00 bucket and I was surprised at how long this lasted.

Find them at: http://indianvalleymine.com or (907)444-6898