The World Gold Panning Championships 1977 in Tankavaara Finnish Lapland.

content description: After a day’s work gold diggers party drinking and listening to accordeon players, Kalle Pehkonen (left) and Urpo Leppänen (middle) during the first ever World Gold Panning Championships, which is held in the Tankavaara Gold Village, Sodankylä, Finnish Lapland on Sunday 24 July 1977. The one drinking beer from a bottle is probably Pellervo Kankainen, who owned many gold digger…