GOLD DREDGING IN NOME, ALASKA
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- čas přidán 30. 11. 2017
- GOLD DREDGING IN NOME, ALASKA takes viewers into and around large bucket-line gold dredges with operators and locals to learn some of the ways these ship-like machines mine placer gold in and around Nome, Alaska. Produced by Farthest North Films for an interactive exhibit at the Carrie M. McLain Memorial Museum that opened November 2017.
Great To see Ron Engstroem finally run his dredge, he worked on it for so long, its a neat little dredge he has there near Dexter! Best Regards from Anchorage! Lars
RIP mr. Mayor you will be missed we all will miss you in Nome
its so neat seeing another dredge operational in the gold fields! Not many are left in running order!
if you got rid of the old drives and put modern inverter controlled winches and new bucket reclaimer drive , upgrade the sluices to classify out the fines and run them through a high catch efficiency sluice system , they could be productive again.
one day ...
@@heartobefelt that would be awesome.... This is something I've thought when I've seen them bringing the other big ones back to life on TV... As I work in automation, I was thinking about all the controllers and PLC's and such that could be used to do something like that... Don't see it being financially stable... At least up front, but the end result (on the right ground) would make up for it in no time
#5 is massive and Tony Beets would go nuts having that thing.
I just love these bucket line dredges, amazing technology for when it was built 100 or so years ago, amazing and one day I might have a vacation to Alaska and visit Nome to see one of these massive leviathans, thanks for sharing this video, greetings from the UK 🇬🇧. Phil
Great video 👍I would love to make it up there some day and get a pan in the water!
Nicely done video. I visited the Dredge (#3 I believe) next to the Chatanika Lodge near Fairbanks. I believe it's close in size to this one. Unfortunately that one was burned by vandals.
Thank you great video
Amazing work.. speechless
very interesting, very cool, thanks !
Yeah they used to do this 50 years ago
we used to have lot of this machine to mine a TIN in Malaysia during 70s 80s ... now only a nostalgia of the past ...
Mosquitos up there aren't big. Around the up of Michigan I saw one with a wood tick on it.
With Centrifugal concentrator Flexicone you can get twice more gold
What would the oilers do? Also, I've heard that early dredges in the early 1900s required dozens of people to operate. What would they all be doing?
It's a pity if you get a three inch gold nugget, it will go out with the other rocks.
WOW I can’t believe the size of some of these dredges...... some engineering feat for their time but also the space needed for them to work in.....🤔 not to mention their working environment 🤭
Who’s here after the psat?
LMAO me
Like I can't believe company's spent so much money building these things and now they are just sitting
Jesse Dias .
Yea what a waste.
And when the dredges where originally built gold value was maybe a 10th the prices we are getting now.
Small price for the amount they made with them. They also have low running cost compared to other methods, so money was saved there. The biggest downfall is the difficulty in moving the big bastards!
Countme OUT when they were built it was way less than a tenth. The government set the price of gold and in the 50”s it was about $35 an ounce.
Sometimes the dredge tailings pile is very lucrative with a gold detector. Those big dredges missed alot of gold big and small.
Gold detector?
@@motormech1h343 Yes, years ago my dad and I became members of GPAA Gold Prospectors Assoc of America. At that time "Whites" metal detector company developed a specail unit $870, that was able to determine copper, steel, iron pyrite, quartz, and gold.
Now there's many companies that make a gold detecting unit. Well worth the cost!
Gostei muito dó seu canal é sou garimpeiro
I live near gold fields in nor cal we have dredges as big as cities
I'm now in Paradise, CA and have mined in Nome while living in Alaska. Some of the Nome dredges came from the Oroville area.
Awesome
I've been inside dredge 5. Pretty spooky place
interesting video
Tony beets use one in gold ruch
Don’t the mosquitoes just about bone a person out in those parts? I heard tell that the black fly is the state bird lol
That mayor is very passionate about gold
Dredging is easier than other forms of mining true......but it is also one of the 2 most destructive ways to mine alluvial placer gold
why ? they work in their own pond . there is no turbidity
Its hard to beleave man can build such monsters.
LOL that’s nothing. There are giant earth movers now which could easily, break that those apart and move the wreckage in just a few seconds.
They don't use them anymore why
I only buy it :| I like throwing it back too.
What happens if a nugget bugger than 3 inches goes through? Does it end up in the tailings?
Chris Brent I was going to ask that. They probably got a schoolboy in to watch it for big nuggets
They said anything over a specific size would be in the tailings. Time to buy a plane ticket and a metal detector.
Why are these not being used more like what Tony is doing?
Jesse Dias tony uses a dredge because he has the land to do it and he is a land owner . if you only have a small amount of land or are just leasing and not a land owner it's not feasable. every time you move to a new claim you would have to dismantle the dredge and the rreasembme it. dredged were only used by big mining companies who owned very large claims . small operations never used them because it's not practical in those situations. it's also a huge investment to purchase and refurbish those dredged and you may not see a return for the first couple of years. plus I think tony gets a little help from discovery channel with his dredge expenses.
Tony Beets might have a somewhat limited vocabulary in dealing with people.. bleep -bleep.. but as far as being efficient he's right on using a dredge. Look at ll the machinery Parker Schnabel has to use, all the trucks all the dozers all the wash plants and conveyors and FUEL to run them all not to mention breakdowns like flat tires or broken treads or worse.plus all the men he has to PAY!! A dredge has it all under one roof and it takes a handful of men to run it. It just chews away while sitting in it's pond and does it's thing. I am amazed Tony can get parts made for something that old but apparently its not a problem. I like to see the dredge at work but as far as working for Tony...Ummm no thanks! :D
Tinsby parker is switching to conveyors if u didn’t watch it..
You still have to move overburden in front of the dredge and strip open ground with the dozers so the dredge still has alot of machines parker uses that long conveyor system and moves alot more yards oer hour making the overall cost closer
There is new ones for sale on the net and parts too price ranges 100k to 1 million , Key read, with Guarantee
Just look at the christine rose in alaska. A barge with an excavator and washplant. Look at how much money the pimrenkes can make while burning 10% of the fuel that parker or anybody else does! They dont have to make a lake for water they dont have to have 2 guys running trucks all day to move dirt. If i had the money i would do exactly what the christine rose crew does!
@@adikmen007 No need for a dredge to do the same thing now, Bucket Wheel excavators are common in various types of open caste mines and don't a lake and self move.
Right now there are claims that produce 900 oz an hour your town produces an had produced not much
Marty Feldman
Who checks the tailings pile for monster nuggets
I did some of them but the pickings were better in the Fairbanks area.
Yes but built in todays times.
Mayor dude reminds me of Gene Wilder
Abby something... Abby Normal
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Those things are really creepy
I don't know about that "water detection" machines, but I have been in the mineral and water detection business for about 30 years now and so far I have tested a lot of machines, only to find they did not work and the money spent went down the drain. My water Dowsing is a hundred% accurate and I do it from a photograph off of Google earth images. Of course I find other things also, like precious-metals, graves, crude-oil. I can scan five to ten square miles from a Google Earth image in about a day and mark the water or mineral locations, large and small. I also discriminate the type of element, for example I can tell any one of the six platinum group metals apart from one another. And I can detect all of the stable elements on the chart of elements. I have done over 300 blind tests to this affect. I am not at all limited on depth detection. I did an oil deposit that was 6800 feet deep. Many of my blind teste were private people giving me permission to scan their houses and marking where their values were.
anyone in nome alaska? so i am do or die now. 52 years old. and been watching gold shows like jeff williams and most others for many years. i just want to try this. price to fly here now is 355 dollars and I may just do it. I'm partially disabled I can walk just not jog or run. i would be bear food. 4 shore. but still, I want to try before I die. its the experience, not the money. now i am on disability and need money but i have to try or die. do or die. any help or any info? anything? i want to go to nome far west
The value of gold is not high. The value of the USDollar is low.
Black history in malaysia. 20 alive 5 missing 3 die.
Beautiful machines that just sitting there doing nothing. How dumb can you be not to be running these machines. The amount of gold it can make you is insane. You dont need 5-6 machines working to dig and move dirt. You have everything there in this machine. You just need water and you are good to go pretty much.Just look at tony beets. His dredge probably made him 1000 ounce already.
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