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The Regular Stuff: Chat, Buy, Sell, Off Topic, etc. => Off Topic => Topic started by: Stoker on June 28, 2024, 07:53:09 pm
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It really is almost nothing compared to the devastation wrought by Glaciation, and it is far less destruction than that caused by the creation of a city, and that city destroys nature all around it for hundreds of miles, or all over the earth for that matter, pulling in the resources it needs in continuing to exist.
Those tree huggers live in those cities, mindless of the relationship that they share and reliance that they have on what they claim to hate!
Mindless hypocrisy as I see it!!
If you can't grow it .... you have to mine it .... and there truly are not any other forms of resource wealth available to man, in any real economy!!!
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I know that some "treehuggers" most likely would disagree, but personally i find areas like this very interesting, having all these historical elements/landmarks left behind.
Great pictures Daniel, thanks for sharing!
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Daniel:
Great memories.
A wonderful thread.
Thanks for posting the pictures.
I am heading back to Alaska in August 16 for some fishing on the Lake Iliamna drainage.
Charlie
Wouldn't need a "caddy" for all your gear would you??? ;c)
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Daniel:
Great memories.
A wonderful thread.
Thanks for posting the pictures.
I am heading back to Alaska in August 16 for some fishing on the Lake Iliamna drainage.
Charlie
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Again referring to the TV show and Tony Beets, he was missing some of the dredge buckets for his dredge resto and went searching for them, he was lucky and found some sitting as yard ornaments in people front yards and paid them well for them.
He found a dredge master who knew his stuff and got the dredge working and pulled in a lot of gold.
Perhaps he should have taken a drive down Gold Bottom Creek, on the other side of King Solomon Dome from his workings, as when I was there, there were a couple of dredge chain buckets, just sitting in a clearing up the hill from the creek a little way. But of course, they may not have been just the right size buckets to fit his chain?
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Although I didn't "pull in a lot of gold" while I was there, I did get some in most every pan I tried on Claim #6 above the original discovery site which is just below Grand Forks, and is a public access free panning site, or was when I was there!
Sorry for the out of focus photo, but I was obviously trying to get in too close to make the gold look bigger .... ;c)
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While kicking around out in somewhat wild nature, you do often come across ...... well, Nature, in its various forms:
Fireweed and a well camo'd Porcupine:
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Some not too infrequently seen Bear Sign:
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And some not too infrequently seen, source:
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Do you know the best way for an independent miner to make a small fortune in the mining industry?
Answer: Start with a large fortune!!!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OyEvwCpuuQ
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Again referring to the TV show and Tony Beets, he was missing some of the dredge buckets for his dredge resto and went searching for them, he was lucky and found some sitting as yard ornaments in people front yards and paid them well for them.
He found a dredge master who knew his stuff and got the dredge working and pulled in a lot of gold.
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Well okay then, those worked, so here are a few more!
Beaver in the Dredge Pond
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View from the Dredge Bucket Line Control Room
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Dredge Tailings Conveyor
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Some BIGass Gears
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Some BIGass Gears again
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The Bucketline Chain laying in the Pond
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Because Jim expressed a bit of interest in the Big Dredge at the mouth of Bonanza Creek, and the Klondike Gold Fields in general, I thought perhaps it would be appropriate to add a bit more to the story.
On this day I pretty much travelled all across the Klondike Bonanza area including driving over the top of King Soloman Dome and on down Gold Bottom Creek on the other side. Rain pretty much all day, so I decided to take the tour of the Big Dredge to sort of get out of the rain for a couple of hours. Sadly, it was one of the last era dredges, so it was electric powered rather than steam like many of the early dredges were. But awesome big machinery for all of that!
Cabin along Bonanza Creek
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Another old cabin
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Claim Marker and my mobile camp
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More Roadside Artifacts
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Raining again near the top of King Soloman Dome, the high point in the Klondike Gold Fields
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Let's see if these images all post okay, then we'll move on into the dredge to get out of the rain for a bit.