As they're actively gold mining, they're constantly uncovering the remains of Ice Age animals like woolly mammoths. It's a routine part of their operations.
Without gold mining, it would be impossible to excavate through these frozen valleys. So using all this heavy equipment, they do all the excavation, and we collect all the fossils.
It's also a real part of the gold mining culture. In photos from the turn of the 20th century, miners pose with mammoth tusks, showing pride in their finds.
We weren't quite sure what it was at the beginning. The creature turned up in the mines in July 2016, thought to be just a dog.
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