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Feb 12, 2021Ahtna Marine and Construction forms dredging JV with J.F. Brennan. 12 February 2021. Alaska-based Ahtna Marine and Construction Company (AMCC) has established a new joint venture with Wisconsin marine contractor J.F. Brennan Company. Together, AMCC and ..
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Apr 20, 2021Alaska Prospecting Forum; Take your moose hunt to the next level! The Alaska Moose Hunting Guidebook is now available for Apple devices and for Amazon Kindle. This 360-page book is a great resource for any Alaska moose hunter, regardless of experience level.
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The Nome district is the part of the Seward Peninsula drained by the Solomon River and other streams flowing into Norton Sound and the Bering Sea as far west as Cape Douglas. When the news reached Dawson, 8000 men left for Nome inside a week. Beginning early in 1899, a stampede exceeded in North America only by the California and Klondike gold
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Oct 17, 2021ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A search is underway in Alaska for two men who went missing after their gold mining boat overturned. Three men were aboard the dredge on Thursday as it made its way back
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The search for gold in Alaska has been going on for at least the past one hundred sixty years. Many large gold nuggets have been found but it wasn't until 1998 that Barry Clay located Alaska's largest gold nugget ever . It weighed over 294 troy ounces and was discovered at Barry's Swift Creek Mine in the Long / Poorman area near Ruby Alaska.
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The clusters of abandoned claims doesn't necessarily mean there's no gold there—it could mean there just wasn't enough gold there for a large corporate mining company. Now zoom in about 40 miles east of Nome Alaska to the Big 4 River Valley area. This area is rich with prospecting opportunity.
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Alaska Gold. The Bristol Bay region of southwest Alaska is home to the last great wild sockeye salmon fishery in the world. It's also home to enormous mineral deposits — copper, gold
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Fortymile Gold Placers is a placer gold mining company located in the Yukon, in northern Canada. We operate as a registered partnership. The Fortymile River straddles the Yukon/Alaska border, with its headwaters in Alaska and its confluence with the Yukon River in the Yukon Territory. The Fortymile district was the site of the first gold rush
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Mar 11, 2021In 1934, a man named Charles Joseph Rauscher worked on Gold Dredge No. 8 in the Goldstream Valley. Last summer, his daughter, Lue, visited the dredge and mentioned her link
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Alaska's List is a huge, online classifieds service, featuring hundreds of mining and diving items for sale by users throughout the Greatland and beyond. Clean, well-organized, and professionally moderated, Alaska's List is classifieds done right!
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Sep 26, 2021Gold Dredge Number 8 is a popular tourist destination in the Fairbanks area of Alaska. The site has a lot of historical significance when considering the gold mining history in Alaska as a whole, as it was the site of one of Alaska's richest gold rushes.. Each year the dredge attracts thousands of visitors who come to not only learn about the history of gold mining in Alaska but to try
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The Global Marine Mineral Resources project researches deep ocean minerals within the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone and throughout the Earth's oceans. Our research concerns the setting, genesis, and metal enrichment processes of mineral deposits, the relationship between marine minerals related and deep-sea biota, and the potential geochemical
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27 reviews of Gold Dredge 8 If you are ever in Fairbanks Alaska and want a little taste of Alaskan history, Gold Dredge No. 8 may be just the ticket you are looking for. You get to tour a real gold dredge, learn the history of how they separated placer gold from the earth, gold pan for real gold, and eat some delicious hearty miner stew.
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You can pan for gold at our sluice boxes at either of our locations or take the longer, more adventurist day trips at the Cooper Landing location.The guided day trip starts around 9am. at Prospector John's in Cooper Landing, where we get suited up with rubber boots, rain gear and life preservers for an hour raft trip on the Kenai river to the wild stream we plan to explore and prospect for gold.
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Sep 21, 2021The Donlin Creek gold deposit in southwestern Alaska is considered to be one of the largest, undeveloped, gold deposits on earth and contains as much gold as the Homestake mine. Resources are likely to expand with continued exploration of the deposit and mining. The gold resource is more than 41 million ounces.
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Don't be fooled by the gold prospecting TV shows or the stories though, many, many tourists leave the great state of Alaska empty-handed. Gold was first discovered in Southeast Alaska in the 1870s. The first discovery was made near Sitka in 1872 and the second was made in 1876 in Windham Bay.
Get PriceLearn about modern mining in Alaska and take a guided tour of our authentic Forty Mile Dredge that once mined in the Yukon. Explore Dredge Town and enjoy the views of the Skagway River, Harding Glacier, and the Skagway port. Dredge Town is filled with photo opportunities and places of interest
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News Articles about AB Prospecting while at the ICMJ Gold ProspectingMining Summit (4/1617). Ryan DeShon with AB Prospecting out of Mesa, Ariz. demonstrates a Garrett AT Gold Metal Detector during the Gold Prospecting and Mining Summit at the El Dorado County Fairgrounds April 17. Hosted by ICMJ's Prospecting and Mining Journal, the
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Fairbanks Gold Maps. Our Fairbanks map shows there are currently 20,874 active gold mining claims, and 5,438 abandoned claims located on state lands. This map shows gold mining activity in Alaska's famous Klondike region and is the largest of the four maps that make up Alaska. When you first open our Fairbanks gold map you can see the yellow
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Jan 12, 2021P.O. Box 95, Hazen Drive. Concord New, Hampshire 03302 -- 0095. Phone (603) 271 – 2147. The use of power equipment is not permitted in the White Mountains National Forest for the recovery of gold that includes sluice boxes, rocker boxes and dredges, but recreational gold panning is allowed. Even though gold mining has never been done on a
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Gold Rush paydirt from Alaska is composed of coarse decomposed granite sand containing quartz and other minerals. Each bag is classified down to approximately one-half inch, making it ready to pan. Paydirt is for recreational purposes and may contain nuggets, pickers, fine gold, and/or black sands.
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Dredge Floats. Dredging Pipe Floats (Floating Ring, Float Collars) are made from high wear resistant LMDPE by rotational molding technology. Dredge floats are widely used for supporting suction/discharge hoses. The dredging pipe floats are manufactured in a bright color to act as warning signs to other vessels in the vicinity.
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Jun 23, 2021A male Pacific walrus calf, missing its mother, crawled aboard the gold dredge AU Grabber off the coast of Nome on Wednesday, June 14. When the 120-pound calf was still there the next morning, the AU Grabber crew called the Alaska SeaLife Center's hotline and alerted the authorities about the gold barge's unusual charge.
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Shell dredges can be outfitted for marine mining too. Figure 5 is a simplified schematic of a dredge in operation. Mining with a large suction dredge enables much more cost-effective and simpler mining by only picking up the ground once. Suck it up, strip the gold out, and drop the tailings back on
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Gold Dredging | Nome, Alaska. Gold Dredging in Nome, Alaska. With today's gold prices, more people have their sights on Nome, Alaska for their next big gold mining adventure. Though Nome is one of the most remote communities in Alaska, this is not the Old West that it used to be.
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No question that many gold prospectors would love to own a dredge, and dredges are very cool pieces of prospecting equipment that will allow you to mine some very nice gold nuggets, but the prices for new ones are really high.Don't forget however, that in the earliest days of dredging, there were no manufacturers, and all small suction dredges were handcrafted units made in someone's garage.
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The Klondike Gold Rush days lasted far longer in popular imagination then they did in reality, but by the time the swarm of prospectors had died down, industrial mining had moved right in. The first dredges were set up in 1899. By 1911, when Dredge #4 was built, there were two
Get PriceAug 11, 2021Section 11 AAC 96.020 - Generally allowed uses (a) A permit or other written authorization is required for uses and activities not appearing on the list in this subsection. Unless otherwise provided in (b) of this section, in a special use land requirement in 11 AAC 96.014, or in a public use area land requirement under 11 AAC 96.016, the following land uses and activities, alone
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Fraser River PileDredge (GP) Inc. (FRPD) is Canada's largest Marine, Land Foundations, and Dredging company. FRPD is a recognized leader that delivers state of the art methods and equipment. FRPD's versatile fleet of cutter section and hopper dredges, spud barges, cranes, dump barges, and flat scows and drilling equipment is ready to
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Gold Dredge 8 Tour Enjoy a close up view of the Trans Alaska Pipeline and a presentation about it's construction and operation. Then take a seat aboard a replica of the Tanana Valley Railroad and listen to tales of the gold rush.
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