The river rich in gold: it has attracted hundreds of thousands of people to pan for gold for hundreds of years, with a total value of tens of billions of dollars

There are many famous mountains and rivers in China, some of them have become very famous tourist attractions, and some have become the "mother river" in one place. But in foreign countries, there is a place where the river can fish out gold, so that in the past hundreds of years, it has attracted hundreds of thousands of gold prospectors to work hard for gold in this small place. In the Yukon Territory on the Canadian border in North America, there is a river called the "Klondike", which was the "mother river" of the early Canadian Indians.

As the population around the river surged, people built hydropower stations and a number of roads in the upper reaches of the river, gradually allowing the lower reaches of the Klondike to usher in different water flows between dry and rainy seasons. In the rainy season, the water volume of the entire Klondike River increases sharply, flooding everywhere, while in the dry season, the water volume of the Klondike River is only the size of the mouth of a bowl, and the exposed rock formations on the surface of the river bed can be clearly seen.

Since the construction of the hydropower station upstream, the fate of the Klondike has also been changed. No one imagined that the lower Klondike in the dry season is still a place that can achieve overnight prosperity. Due to the large amount of floods in the rainy season, the rock formations under the riverbed have been washed away, so in the dry season, people can clearly see golden stones on the surface of the riverbed.

The person who first discovered the secret of the Klondike River made the first pot of gold in this way, but it didn't take long for the secret to spread by ten or ten, and eventually hundreds of thousands of gold diggers spread. Many gold diggers have become permanent residents of this place, and a gold rush town with a population of tens of thousands has also been formed. In its heyday, the population of the gold rush town reached 200,000, which is equivalent to the population of a small and medium-sized city in Canada.

It is said that since the discovery of gold in the river, gold worth tens of billions of dollars has been dug in the river. It is strange that people come back to the river after the rainy season every year and can still harvest gold. Many people believe that the water brings the gold, so that the gold of the Klondike always feels like it will never be dug out.