2/29/2024 0 Comments Gold rush thistle creek dredgeThey were in great use for a half century before that. Prior to Tony's attempt, no industrial floating dredge had been used in the Klondike for a quarter century. It scoops or pumps/vacuums the bottom of the watercourse and pushes it onto the wash plant.įloating industrial dredges had been used in the Klondike for a long time, since 1901. Small scale placer mining in the White Gold District, Yukon.A dredge is a piece of mining equipment used on watercourses. The lower left is looking at the controls in the wheel house and abandoned dredge buckets (lower right). The visitors are geologists (the writer is the third person from the right). Photos of the dredge and visitors that was taken in 2009. Helicopter photos of the gold dredge at Thistle Creek. Jack Hoffman and some of the Discovery film crew at the Dawson airport in 2010. Helicopter photo of the Thistle dredge from the TV episode. Tony Beets, best of luck with your venture! It will be great to see it brought back to life. The Thistle dredge only operated for about 5 years during the 1940's. He has already refurbished another dredge in the Klondike and it is producing placer gold. He has purchased the dredge and plans to get it up and running later this year. One of the main characters in the TV series is Tony Beets. The dredge is located about 100 kilometers south of Dawson City of Klondike fame. What was amazing is that I first visited the dredge in 2009. I was amazed to see footage of an abandoned gold dredge on Thistle Creek a tributary of the Yukon River. Last Friday (January 22, 2015) I watched a new episode of the Gold Rush series on the Discovery channel. This post is for the fans of the show Gold Rush on the Discovery Channel,
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