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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 .
The Swanberg Dredge is one of several gold mining dredges that dot the landscape near Nome, Alaska. Also known as the Johnson-Pohl Dredge, this one is located at about mile marker 1 of the Nome-Council Highway just inside the city limits. The dredge stands in a pond about 200 feet (61 m) north of the highway in a small pond.
The Bima (IMO number: 7633789) [1] was a bucket-line dredge. It was built to mine tin in offshore Malaysia and Indonesia. In the late 1980s, it was moved to Nome, Alaska, US, to mine seafloor placer gold deposits in the Bering Sea off the coast. Being unprofitable at gold mining in Nome, it was sold for scrap in 1990.
The Nome mining district, also known as the Cape Nome mining district, is a gold mining district in the U.S. state of Alaska.It was discovered in 1898 when Erik Lindblom, Jafet Lindeberg and John Brynteson, the "Three Lucky Swedes", found placer gold deposits on Anvil Creek and on the Snake River few miles from the future site of Nome.
Tagiuk Provider (MMSI number: 368052470; IMO callsign: WCW8211; USCG id: 650398), [1] [2] formerly Arctic Endeavor, is a 205 ft (62 m) 1500-ton ice-class flat-topped deck cargo barge adapted to being a clam-shell crane scoop mining platform for placer gold mining in the Bering Sea off Nome, Alaska, United States.
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.
The Tuvli 160 (USCG id: 516564) [1] is an ocean-rated crewed flat-topped barge in the process of being adapted into a powered littorals at-sea excavator-boomed suction dredge mining vessel. [2] It is owned by Pomrenke Mining and its registered home port is Nome, Alaska, USA. [1] The Tuvli 160 was featured in 2018 season 10 of Bering Sea Gold.
In the 1910s, the Shovel Creek Gold Dredging Company operated on Shovel Creek, about 2 miles (3 km) above the junction of the creek with the Solomon River. The dredge buckets had a capacity of 2.5 cubic feet (0.071 m 3). The ladder was constructed for digging to a depth of 15 feet (4.6 m). Gasoline engines were used to furnish power.