Tony Beets has been mining gold in the Yukon since 1982, and his net worth is estimated at over $5 million. OPPOSITE Gold panning still reaps rewards in the Klondike
If the bulldozers on Tony Beets’ gold mine ever break down he could just use his bare hands. They are gigantic and caked in dirt, the way God’s must have looked the day he created the mountains. Tony came to the Yukon in 1982 for the same reason thousands before him did during the Gold Rush of 1896–1899, but the old stories don’t interest him much.