He has a drilling company now. He said that maybe some of us would grow up to be geologists or engineers. Women also mine gold not just men. There are a lot of placer mines around Fairbanks. Think of a valley.
Erosion carries the gold and it settles because gold is heavy.
You have to dig it out. Sometimes, if the gold is deep, people dig shafts. If the shaft has to only go down around eight feet, they can do it with shovels. If they need to go really deep, drilling rigs can be used. They dig it and pan it.