Dredge Buckets - Dawson City, Yukon
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These buckets, located on Upper Bonanza Creek Road, near Dawson City, Yukon. are on display next to Dredge No. 4, a Canadian National Historic Site.
Waymark Code: WM12TJW
Location: Yukon Territory, Canada
Date Posted: 07/13/2020
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"This floating bucket-line dredge symbolizes the importance of Yukon’s gold dredging operations in Canada from 1899 to 1966, when the last of its kind shut down. Built in 1912 by the Canadian Klondike Mining Company, this machine worked the gravels of the Klondike River Valley. Dismantled and refurbished by the Yukon Consolidated Gold Company in 1940, it mined Bonanza Creek until 1959 and sank the next year when a dam burst. Dredge No. 4 illustrates the evolution of gold mining in this area, from the labour-intensive manual techniques of early prospectors to large-scale, corporate industrial extraction methods."
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Type of Machine: Dredge
Year the machine was built: 1912
Year the machine was put on display: After 1992
Is there online documentation for this machine: [Web Link]
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