Have your chance to be a prospector and build these genuine 3D Puzzles of Yellowknife's symbolic head frames! Made in Yellowknife these puzzles provide hours of interactive fun for you and your family!
- This 3D Puzzle model involves glue to be put together, Glue and instructions included!
- 10 inches in height
- 25 piece puzzle
Recomended age is 15 yrs and older.
CAUTION for young children when using the glue, Parental supervision is ADVISED
Yellowknife owe's its fortunes to the rich mineral deposits under its cold frozen surface. Gold was first found by prospectors in 1989, but it wasn't until 1938 that the first gold bar was poured at Con Mine. Over the years, several smaller mines opened and in 1945 Giant Mine went into production. The two largest mines, Con & Giant, produced over 10,000,000 ounces of gold equivalent to over 11 billion dollars! Major gold mining in yellowknife ended in 2004, however, gold exploration continues to this day...