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  2. Gold dredge - Wikipedia

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    Gold Dredge, Klondike River, Canada, 1915 The Yankee Fork dredge near Bonanza City, Idaho, which operated into the 1950s. A gold dredge is a placer mining machine that extracts gold from sand, gravel, and dirt using water and mechanical methods. The original gold dredges were large, multi-story machines built in the first half of the 1900s.

  3. Dredging - Wikipedia

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    A grab dredge. Dredging is the excavation of material from a water environment. Possible reasons for dredging include improving existing water features; reshaping land and water features to alter drainage, navigability, and commercial use; constructing dams, dikes, and other controls for streams and shorelines; and recovering valuable mineral deposits or marine life having commercial value.

  4. Trailing suction hopper dredger - Wikipedia

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    One or more, Dredging pumps to create an under pressure in order to suck the substance into the hopper; Transportation tubes to transport the substance from the pipes to the hopper; An overflow to discharge the redundant water overboard; Degassing installation to extract any possible gas from the substance in order to reduce damage and increase ...

  5. AU Grabber - Wikipedia

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    The AU Grabber (pronounced as: Gold Grabber; [NB 1]) is a self-propelled barge excavator dredge used to mine Bering Sea placer gold deposits in the region around Nome, Alaska, USA. It is owned and operated by Richard Schimschat and featured in the Discovery Channel USA mining reality TV show Bering Sea Gold .

  6. Dredge No. 4 - Wikipedia

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    Dredge No. 4 (Hän: Lëzrą Kä̀nëchà "s/he is looking for money") is a wooden-hulled bucketline sluice dredge that mined placer gold on the Yukon River from 1913 until 1959. It is now located along Bonanza Creek Road 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) south of the Klondike Highway [ 1 ] near Dawson City , Yukon , where it is preserved as one of the ...

  7. Placer mining - Wikipedia

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    These smaller dredges commonly operate by sucking water and gravel up through long hoses using a pump, where the gold can then be separated using more traditional methods such as a sluice box. [13] Placer mine worker streams high pressure water to assist with mining operations in Park County, Colorado, early 1900s [19]