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Gold Dredge 8

Fairbanks, AK

A preserved bucket-line gold dredge anchors a tour of Interior mining history north of Fairbanks. Visitors can see the giant machine up close and learn how industrial placer mining reshaped frozen ground at a scale far beyond hand panning.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: golddredge8.com

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