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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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