Winterfun in Tankavaara - Snow Panning
When it's only six months left for the competition, you better start your daily training rutine!
World Gold Panning Championship competition will be organized at Tankavaara Gold Village in August 5th-10th 2019.
The event that has spread to the world has started in the Tankavaara Gold Village in 1977. Now the competition returns home at the same time as we celebrate 150 years of Lapland’s Gold Rush.
Gold Panning in the living backwoods, Sompio area in Lapland, are an experience for the whole family whether you are going to compete or to cheer in the audience.
The event is free for the public! In honor of the World Championships, there are many different programs and excursions available.
You may be the gold panning champion in the world!
More information: tankavaaragold.fi
Sluicing at Karuoja gold claim, Lemmenjoki national park, Finland
This film is about some of the methods I used when sluicing for gold in 2014 at Lemmenjoki national park, Finland, in the claim called Karuoja
Film by: Seppo Huhtamäki 2014
Music: Die Minimalistin :Mémoire Mortel
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Gold Hunting Finland
My recent gold hunting trip to Lapland, Finland, above the arctic circle.
Music: Easy Jam Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
Finally it was time to pack the home made sluice box into the car and head toward the Northern goldplains above the Arctic Circle. A friendly claim owner gave us a permission to try the new sluice on his land and so we eagerly prepared for a week-long camping in the enchanting Lapland wilderness.
I had designed the sluice’s water intake based on the information found from the Internet, but the experienced claim owner told me immediately that the size of the intake would not be enough to ensure the proper water flow. So the first thing I had to do was to modify the sluice in order to fit a two inch fire hose connector as the main water supply line.
In the beginning there were also some other difficulties, for example to get the water pump started, but I had learned from the gold hunting videos and TV series that one can kind of expect hardships to be a part of the prospecting, especially when working far away in the middle of nowhere. Well, we didn’t have a seasonal goal or an ongoing competition with a neighboring team, but we were on vacation and our intention was just to get in touch with the hobby and learn by doing.
However, there was one challenge that really hit my nerves: Camera's memory card got jammed, which caused me to lose a large portion of the video footage. I noticed that too late, and that’s also why this video didn’t come up exactly as I had planned.
Anyway, before long, the machines were up and running and the water began to flow in the sluice. Digging and carrying sand in heat of 30 degrees Celsius didn’t feel too bad, since I had been waiting for this moment for so many months!
The prospecting area was next to a small swamp. Since the summer 2018 was exceptionally dry and hot, the swamp was drying up and getting enough water was challenging. On the other hand, drought allowed hand digging deeper than usual, since the water started to build up in the bottom of the pit only in the depth of one and a half meter. I was told that in the previous summer diggers hit the water in just under a meter.
Under the thin layer of topsoil and roots, the ground was mainly sand and moraine, made up of different layers. The first one meter layer was quite dense and hard, so it was easier to first break it up with a shovel or pickaxe. There were only few rocks in the ground, and the biggest of them were only few kilos in weight.
Because of the dryness and heat, the water circulating in the sluice became really cloudy and muddy. I felt it might clog the grooves, so just to be sure I removed and cleaned the mats every day. At the end of each day, I also did a small trial panning to see if there were any signs of gold on the ground layer that was dug out during the day. Gold was found, although mainly in tiny dust-like particles, which in Finland are called ”breathless nuggets”. Still, it must be said that seeing the first gold nugget in the bottom of the pan was really a memorable experience.
In total, I was able to dig in parts of four days; The scorching heat during the days and even the unusually hot nights took their toll and quickly drained the energy. I could dig only in short intervals, after which it was necessary to go and dip into the near by river to cool off. Still, at least in my own opinion, I managed to dig a pretty large hole into the ground and also to get some gold in return.
To see the actual panning and the gold and gemstones I was able to find, please stay tuned in and watch the second part of the trip, which is coming soon in this channel.
Thanks for watching!
(c) 2019 Frozen Toes Entertainment
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AEM Finland - The People of Kittila Mine (English)
A video consisting of footage, information and interviews of some our Kittila employees speaking about the positive changes the mine has had in the surrounding region.
Auslosung GS::8/16 Goldwaschen in Tankavaara
Wir präsentieren hier die Auslosung der GewinnerIn unseres Gewinnspiels Goldwaschen in Tankavaara in Anwesenheit eines Notars, damit unser grundsätzlich gewissenhafter Umgang mit sensiblen Stoffen und privaten Information wieder mal eine öffentliche Beurkundung erhält.
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Winter Swimming In A Frozen Lake | Finland
Our first experience swimming in an icy water in a frozen lake in Finland. Watch the video to find out how did we survive :)
The Resort:
- Smoke sauna and swimming (10 euro for hotel guest or 13 euros for other guest)
- They also have rental shop (snowshoes, ski, fat bikes, swim suits, etc)
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Lapland War | Wikipedia audio article
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Lapland War
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The Lapland War (Finnish: Lapin sota; Swedish: Lapplandskriget; German: Lapplandkrieg) was fought between Finland and Nazi Germany effectively from September to November 1944 in Finland's northernmost region, Lapland, during World War II. Although Finns and Germans had been fighting the Soviet Union (USSR) together since 1941 during the Continuation War, the Soviet Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive in the summer of 1944 forced Finnish leadership to negotiate a separate peace agreement. The Moscow Armistice demanded Finland break diplomatic ties with Germany and expel or disarm any German soldiers left in Finland after 15 September 1944.
The Wehrmacht had anticipated the turn of events and drawn up plans for an organised withdrawal to German-occupied Norway called Operation Birke (Birch). Despite a failed offensive landing operation by Germany in the Gulf of Finland, the evacuation proceeded peacefully at first. The Finns escalated the situation into warfare on 28 September after Soviet pressure to adhere to the terms of the Armistice. The Finnish Army was required by the USSR to demobilise while at the same time pursuing German troops out of Finnish soil. After a series of minor battles, the war came to an effective end in November 1944 when German troops had reached Norway or its vicinity and took fortified positions. The last German soldiers left Finland on 27 April 1945 and the end of World War II in Europe came soon after.
The Finns considered the war a separate conflict because hostilities with other nations had ceased after the Continuation War. From the German perspective, it was a part of the two campaigns to evacuate from northern Finland and northern Norway. Soviet involvement in the war amounted to monitoring Finnish operations, minor air support as well as entering north-eastern Lapland during the Petsamo–Kirkenes Offensive. Military impacts were relatively limited with both sides sustaining around 4,000 in total casualties—although the Germans' delaying scorched earth and land mine strategies devastated Finnish Lapland. The Wehrmacht successfully withdrew and Finland upheld its obligations under the Moscow Armistice, although it remained formally at war with the USSR and the United Kingdom until ratification by the 1947 Paris Peace Treaty.