GOLD DREDGING IN NOME, ALASKA 

Great To see Ron Engstroem finally run his dredge, he worked on it for so long, its a neat little dredge he has there near Dexter! Best Regards from Anchorage! Lars

RIP mr. Mayor you will be missed we all will miss you in Nome

I just love these bucket line dredges, amazing technology for when it was built 100 or so years ago, amazing and one day I might have a vacation to Alaska and visit Nome to see one of these massive leviathans, thanks for sharing this video, greetings from the UK 🇬🇧. Phil

#5 is massive and Tony Beets would go nuts having that thing.

its so neat seeing another dredge operational in the gold fields! Not many are left in running order!

Amazing work.. speechless

Thank you great video

Great video 👍I would love to make it up there some day and get a pan in the water!

very interesting, very cool, thanks !

Nicely done video. I visited the Dredge (#3 I believe) next to the Chatanika Lodge near Fairbanks. I believe it's close in size to this one. Unfortunately that one was burned by vandals.

Yeah they used to do this 50 years ago

we used to have lot of this machine to mine a TIN in Malaysia during 70s 80s ... now only a nostalgia of the past ...

Mosquitos up there aren't big. Around the up of Michigan I saw one with a wood tick on it.

With Centrifugal concentrator Flexicone you can get twice more gold

What would the oilers do? Also, I've heard that early dredges in the early 1900s required dozens of people to operate. What would they all be doing?

It's a pity if you get a three inch gold nugget, it will go out with the other rocks.

WOW I can’t believe the size of some of these dredges...... some engineering feat for their time but also the space needed for them to work in.....🤔 not to mention their working environment 🤭

Awesome

I've been inside dredge 5. Pretty spooky place

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I live near gold fields in nor cal we have dredges as big as cities

Like I can't believe company's spent so much money building these things and now they are just sitting

Sometimes the dredge tailings pile is very lucrative with a gold detector. Those big dredges missed alot of gold big and small.

interesting video

Who’s here after the psat?

Tony beets use one in gold ruch

That mayor is very passionate about gold

Don’t the mosquitoes just about bone a person out in those parts? I heard tell that the black fly is the state bird lol

Dredging is easier than other forms of mining true......but it is also one of the 2 most destructive ways to mine alluvial placer gold

They don't use them anymore why

I only buy it :| I like throwing it back too.

Marty Feldman

What happens if a nugget bugger than 3 inches goes through? Does it end up in the tailings?

Its hard to beleave man can build such monsters.

Why are these not being used more like what Tony is doing?

Right now there are claims that produce 900 oz an hour your town produces an had produced not much

Tony Beets might have a somewhat limited vocabulary in dealing with people.. bleep -bleep.. but as far as being efficient he's right on using a dredge. Look at ll the machinery Parker Schnabel has to use, all the trucks all the dozers all the wash plants and conveyors and FUEL to run them all not to mention breakdowns like flat tires or broken treads or worse.plus all the men he has to PAY!! A dredge has it all under one roof and it takes a handful of men to run it. It just chews away while sitting in it's pond and does it's thing. I am amazed Tony can get parts made for something that old but apparently its not a problem. I like to see the dredge at work but as far as working for Tony...Ummm no thanks! :D

anyone in nome alaska? so i am do or die now. 52 years old. and been watching gold shows like jeff williams and most others for many years. i just want to try this. price to fly here now is 355 dollars and I may just do it. I'm partially disabled I can walk just not jog or run. i would be bear food. 4 shore. but still, I want to try before I die. its the experience, not the money. now i am on disability and need money but i have to try or die. do or die. any help or any info? anything? i want to go to nome far west

Who checks the tailings pile for monster nuggets

Mayor dude reminds me of Gene Wilder

Yes but built in todays times.

Those things are really creepy

I don't know about that "water detection" machines, but I have been in the mineral and water detection business for about 30 years now and so far I have tested a lot of machines, only to find they did not work and the money spent went down the drain. My water Dowsing is a hundred% accurate and I do it from a photograph off of Google earth images. Of course I find other things also, like precious-metals, graves, crude-oil. I can scan five to ten square miles from a Google Earth image in about a day and mark the water or mineral locations, large and small. I also discriminate the type of element, for example I can tell any one of the six platinum group metals apart from one another. And I can detect all of the stable elements on the chart of elements. I have done over 300 blind tests to this affect. I am not at all limited on depth detection. I did an oil deposit that was 6800 feet deep. Many of my blind teste were private people giving me permission to scan their houses and marking where their values were.

The value of gold is not high. The value of the USDollar is low.

Black history in malaysia. 20 alive 5 missing 3 die.

Beautiful machines that just sitting there doing nothing. How dumb can you be not to be running these machines. The amount of gold it can make you is insane. You dont need 5-6 machines working to dig and move dirt. You have everything there in this machine. You just need water and you are good to go pretty much.Just look at tony beets. His dredge probably made him 1000 ounce already.

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