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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 ...
The "Discovery Claim (Claim 37903)", a mining claim on Bonanza Creek where the Klondike Gold Rush began, the discovery of which marked the beginning of the development of the Yukon; [4] and "Dredge No. 4", a preserved bucketline sluice dredge used to mine placer gold and which symbolizes the importance of dredging operations to the evolution of ...
The dredge commenced operations on lower Chicken Creek in September and worked for approximately five months every year thereafter until October 1967, when it produced its final cleanup. In 1998, the 500 ton dredge was moved overland to its current location at the Chicken Gold Camp.
Dredge No. 4 Starting approximately 10 years later, large gold dredges began an industrial mining operation, scooping huge amounts of gold out of the creeks, and completely reworking the landscape, altering the locations of rivers and creeks and leaving tailing piles in their wake.
Dredge #4, Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. Photographed on 12 August 2009. The Dredge was a major gold producer during the early 20th Century. Joint ©© Arthur D. Chapman and Audrey Bendus. Date: Taken on 12 August 2009, 11:40: Source: Dredge #4, Dawson City, Yukon: Author: Arthur Chapman from Australia
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Tombstone Mountain Glissade Pass August 2016 A View of Tombstone Mountain. Tombstone Territorial Park is a territorial park in the Yukon, one of three territories in Canada.It is in central Yukon, near the southern end of the Dempster Highway, stretching from the 50.5 to the 115.0 kilometre marker.