He has already refurbished another dredge in the Klondike and it is producing placer gold. He has purchased the dredge and plans to get it up and running later this year. One of the main characters in the TV series is Tony Beets. The dredge is located about 100 kilometers south of Dawson City of Klondike fame. What was amazing is that I first visited the dredge in 2009.
I was amazed to see footage of an abandoned gold dredge on Thistle Creek a tributary of the Yukon River. Last Friday (January 22, 2015) I watched a new episode of the Gold Rush series on the Discovery channel.
It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.This post is for the fans of the show Gold Rush on the Discovery Channel, The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy.
Plumas County has eight gold mines that the USGS identifies as significant producers, which is notable given that it is not uncommon for many counties in the West to have no mines considered significant.Įl Dorado County contains at least 20 historically important gold mining districts.Įl Dorado County historical mining featuresĪll mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. Gold mines are the most common mine type, with 2,334 mines being listed with gold as a primary commodity. Image from the WMH Mine Discovery Tools for Google Earth illustrates gold mine distribution in part of El Dorado CountyĮl Dorado County has 2,599 mine records in the USGS MRDS database, making it one of the top mining counties in the nation. WMH Mine Discovery Tools for Google Earth are available for El Dorado county El Dorado County is the site of the 1848 gold discovery at Coloma that initiated the great California Gold Rush.
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