Gold dredges were used to mine gold in rivers in Alaska on a large scale during the first half of the 20th century by scooping gravel up in front of the dredge and dumping it into sluice boxes. One of the first bucket-line dredges in the famed Fortymile mining country, the Jack Wade Dredge was freighted up the Fortymile River from Dawson in the winter of 1906-07. “People loved to camp at it and to pan for gold there,” said Robin Hammond, the postmaster in the small mining town of Chicken a few miles south of where the dredge sat. The abandoned dredge sat on the bank of Jack Wade Creek for 72 years and was a popular tourist attraction on the 160-mile road from Tok to Eagle. The Jack Wade Dredge at Mile 86 of the Taylor Highway was dismantled last month. Regulator condemns deteriorating Gold Rush relic in Fortymile country as public hazard locals mourn loss as passing of bygone eraĪ rich piece of Alaska’s gold mining history is sitting in a dump in Tok after being demolished because the Bureau of Land Management deemed it dangerous.
MINING NEWS: BLM scraps historic Chicken dredge Providing coverage of Alaska and Northwest Canada's mineral industry
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