I LOVED Dawson City ! When I was growing up my parents took us there to camp several times. We’d take the ferry into town and walk around the streets and shops. At least one night my parents would go into town to a place I think was called Galloping Gerties. They had dance hall girls that would put on a show. My sister and I would stay back at camp, roast weenies and marshmallows. On two occasions, a private boys school were there the same time we were so we’d make friends with them and hang out for the night until my parents got back. The drive from Anchorage was incredible! We saw so much historical stuff and native traditions at native towns. Lots of memories!❤️
They had to ban the use of monitors here in Northern California. The miners were blasting down entire mountains which was silting up the rivers and causing entire towns down stream to flood. There's still a few monitors around to see around places like Cherokee, just north of the town of Oroville. There were diamonds discovered there before they found gold. There is still a working diamond mine in that area. And up around Whiskeytown, which I got to explore the old mining town in the early 1960s before Whiskeytown Dam (which my grandfather designed and engineered) was filled and the town got flooded. --- I've never seen any remnants of steam or electric dredges around here but have seen old photos of them working in the Yuba and Feather Rivers, and there are still some tailings piles remaining.
Hi Frank & Sharon, it's so interesting to see the different methods that were used through the centuries to obtain the gold. An awesome video, thank you for having us along on your trip, much love. xx💖🤘🤘
Hi, Frank and Sharon, Thanks for taking us all along to Dawson City. My wife love to watch The Gold Miners, so I've seen some of this stuff. Sharon sure was having fun on that Hydraulic Mining and I got a big kick out of when she ribbed you about doing better than you did. The biggest magnet: "Unstable Structure ---KEEP OFF", up the bucket line you go.. It looked like it would take the rest of your life trying to learn how to operate that dredge.....lol. God Bless and stay safe.
Sharon, excellent photography. Obviously there is still plenty of colour to be had throughout the area, Frank. Great to see the photographs at the end of the videos now, it brings your channel up a level.
Really enjoyable, informative episode. Grand job you were doing with the high pressure hose, the big grins on your faces said it all. Some great photography at the end. Thank you Sharon and Frank. ❤️👍❤️
8:01 your face when she said im doing a better job than you... ha lol priceless hahaha. Nice seeing you really happy..glad you found a good one buddy. Shes a keeper for sure.
AWESOME CLASSIC FRANK COOL TO SEE THESE GOLDEN GEMS BROTHER LOLOLOLOL 🤣🤣 EVEN A CRAPPER A FEW OF THEM LEFT IN THE STATES LIKE MONTANA , WATCH THEM STEPS BROTHER YOU TWO TAKE CARE 🤘🤘🤘
Absolutely fascinating as always thank you :) I think Tony has at least 2 dredges running now doesn't he? Can't wait for the next part of this. Take care
@@exploringabandonedmines Fair enough :) I stand corrected, it was brilliant to look around that one on your video and i can't get over how knowledgeable you guys are :) I always learn something.
To operate a dredge, there would need to be 4 winches for movement side-to-side and forward. A winch for raising and lowering the bucket ladder. A winch to adjust the height of the tailings conveyor. The buckets would be lowered to a depth below the bottom of the pontoons or bedrock and then a winch on the front would pull in line while the winch on the other side would let out line swinging the dredge and bucket ladder in an arc while scooping up gravel. At the end of the swing the front winches would swap roles and the winches on the rear or aft would let out enough line to move forward enough to keep digging into the gravel. The bucket ladder would need to be lower than the bottom of the pontoons so the dredge would float while the swing would be wider than the pontoons so they would not get caught on the gravel or tailings. Modern sand, gravel, and mud dredges use the same method only the cutter is usually a ball type instead of the buckets.
Waaay Cool! Absolutely Mindblowing to think they actually had men that got these mining operations underway, and actually funded by Investors looking for a fast return on their dollars. And to think they also had the Factories running and the designers and draftsmen way back then to build and deliver those Mammoth dredging machines!..and in the middle of nowhere! Speaking of "Mammoth" Machines...those teeth were scary! To think what all existed and roamed the lands centuries ago! I bet that sabre tooth skull would bring a small fortune to a collector! Something to see the old mines too eh?..where the men had originally tried to get to the gold! God! how the hell did they dig through that permafrost!? That was an excellent Video Frank! Vey well done! It was as if I was climbing around through that dredger right with you. Cute to see Sharon "showin you how its done" on that hose too!...eh? Ha - Ha! :o) Yeah,.just imagine what size of gold nuggets all rolled around and went through that tumbler part of that machine eh? I wonder if those investors really did get their money back?..and then some? Probably! $$$ :o) What a lifestyle and job that must have been for the men that did that and lived up there! Kinda funny to see that men are still at it too! Nice to see you and Sharon up in the Sunlight for a change! :o) Thanks again For another evenings adventure! Peace & Luv!
Was that shot of the old gun in the artifact room/man cave from a 1873 winchester repeater!? lots of great content in this vid! always try to imagine while out exploring what the old placer mined valleys and rivers would have looked like back in the 1800s when they were being mined.Watching this vid was like taking a tour right to back into that by gone era! thanks for sharing.
@@exploringabandonedmines 10:19 looks like one of the rarer .22 cal hexagonal barrel 1873 models not an expert just an amature relic/artifact hunter of sorts in spare time.
Well, Frank my Brother this was way way way to much fun. If I would have been there physically with ya man I would have had more fun than a fat rat cut loose in a cheese factory. Awesome as always Frank TY and seriously cant wait to see part 2 :)
I've seen a monitor in New Zealand back when was a little kid, being used to sluice gravel and dirt to find alluvial gold .Still plenty of gold there but the use of hydraulic monitors was banned years ago.
That is sooo cool! A guy could have pretty much endless fun exploring a place like that. Did you get to bring back anything for the collection? I think a sabertooth skull would go nicely in the museum
Hello just some info in Sumster Oregon there what they call Gold Dredge park state park with dredge just like this that you can walk around in side and ranger talks about it free or donations great area. Cjd wash state enjoy.🤔 P.s. and a true story about the dredge worker who did not go home that Night 🤔 Great video To Frank and team
Hello again when my girl friend and I went we walked in the main door we Both had a starage feeling and later about an HR later we found out why we had that strange feeling 🤔 100 o/o all true check it out🤔 now we have a tag lock safety programs in most of the world 🙏 be safe and wise.your video is 100 o/o Great .
It's said that those bucket dredges left so much gold behind in the tailings and ppl have found lots of gold in them. I'd love to be one of them except I would pay to have the rights to prospect. Great video indeed always great to see
Sharon gets to handle the big nozzle. Those tusks, teeth and skulls are way older than the permafrost. Ten thousand years is small cakes. Those older tusks may go back 25 thousand years. This dredge is in better condition from the one that was stuck in that swamp. It would be nice to see a video of a dredge like this in operation. Especially the helm.
I think I'll be going back to Dawson next year. I did NOT spend enough time there when I went in 2013! I wonder if anybody in that pit downtown sampled any of the dirt they were digging!
would love to see that dredger brought back to life, think if I had real deep pockets would be willing to invest in something like this. would it be worth looking for gold in the tailings?
Please tell me they contact the local paleontology department about those finds? Some of those specimens were on amazing condition! Those Bison Latifronds were perfect they also had a horn sheath from the Bison! Then they had what looked like Homotherium skall! (the Saber tooth) I'm a dumb ass I know, but to me, those were worth more than the gold... I love your work frank, I live in Georgia USA where it's kinda hard to find any good mines to go into...funny thing is I'm not far from Dahlonega, Georgia where the first gold rush of America happened in 1829. Maybe one day you could come down here and show me how it's done properly?
@wyomarine you are very correct, I apologize for my wrong identification not sure why I thought it was Latifronds, I know the difference... Maybe my haste in writing my comment, I was at brake at work and didn't have much time to put much thought into it. Thank you for the proper info...
I've been watching from episode one. Seriously Frank, your the only guy to come out of these mines looking 10 years younger. But you didn't mine to much i guess.
6000 PSI ???? I do not believe that hoses that you are showing would take that pressure. But anyway the video was just great. I am surprised that the wash mining is still allowed. That totally devastated the ecology of the area. Man's greed for GOLD is neverending. Peace, VF
@@exploringabandonedmines He probably meant 600 max. Six thousand is way way higher than the piping could take as it looks like aluminum type. Thanks you Frank for your sincerity and honesty on the show. That is why you are successful on TH-cam. Please keep the shows coming. Peace, VF
Nice to see you hanging out with some real Yukon gold. Placer miners like the Favrons are just great people in general, and it's too bad personalities like Tony make them look like a joke.
They were really nice to us. They live there year round and make all their money from Gold mining not producing TV shows and doing a little mining in the summer. They are real Gold miners.
Really cool video but I hated to see remnants of the hard rock miners from so long ago destroyed but considering how prone to collapse all those tunnels and adits were this was probably the most effective way to expose and collect artifacts. The hydraulic mining operation would seem to draw Paleontologists since the bones of the Wooly Mammoths and Saber Tooth Tigers (Cats) have been extinct since the Earth started to warm around 10,000 years ago (Neanderthal's unbridled use of fossil fuels?) Actually, it became too warm for the plants to thrive which caused the Mammanths who were herbivores to die which caused the Cats, who ate the Mammanths, to die. Of course, this was about the same time humans stopped evolving as the weaker species died off while the rest lived on to become politicians and lawyers. Concerning the dredge, why was the conveyor for the waste rock covered?
Doing this they irreparably destroy the (top) soil layer. All organics are flushed away, basically they leave sand only and set up those parts of the environment they touch this way to become desert. It is basically ludicrous to do this (destroy 6, 8, 10 meters of fertile ground only to get to a layer of rock that lays underneath, and not only remove all that lives above that but destroy it permanently. I would be a strong proponent of making this type of (erm could one call it 'mining'?) illegal.
@@exploringabandonedmines And there's a settling pond. Where there's a settling pond there's recoverable organics and I'm sure that much later on those cuts are going to get covered. Also... permafrost zone, it's not exactly like future farmland is destroyed or there was some incredible biodiversity in a climate zone that's liable to freeze solid for better than half the year. Harrick sounds like the people whinging about trampling into the vast mud plains in the Alaskan north...
@@holisti Top soil over the thousands of years keeps growing IF PLANT LIFE AND ~ GROWTH MAINTAINS IN THAT PLACE. Not when it is permanently made impossible be cause the necessary conditions are destroyed. In that case it has to start building up from scratch again, starting with micro - and very small organisms. Now sometimes SOME fertile soil (organic materials, plant rests) may form new small layers if wind and/or water can carry out that way. But that is nothing in comparison, age in this case the subsoil is completely WASHED, even water soluble minerals are wasted. Furthermore whether or not rain, hail, snow will fall in a larger area (as well as the presence of moisture in the local atmosphere) also depend mostly on the presence of plant life there as (besides keeping the fertile soil from being eroded away (washed, blown by the wind) the fauna maintains and manages water, and be cause of the evaporation that it causes, maintains and makes more steady by holding reserves - everything plants manage underground happens through the collective root systems of trees, bushes and all other plants of course - Life's very possibility to maintain with that depends on the very presence of plane life, it is like a cyclic thing, everything in the process both depends on its other aspects and takes care of them. That being said, I would not call a hundred square miles small scale, that is a huge area. The point is that on every (square) meter mankind claims, we are usually killing each and every thing that lives on that amount of surface. Plants and animals 'individually', and with the vast amount of direct surface we claim, tens of not hundreds of thousands of miles asphalted, turned into cities of concrete and stone, plus our influence through chemical products and waste and exhausts, complete species overall, hundreds of 'wild' (solemnly naturally evolved) species disappear every year. Whether it is nowadays with parking lots and for instance concrete high-rises or long time ago millions of square kilometers over the span of centuries by 'the' faraos, who created complete deserts the size of a subcontinent building pyramids (their megalomaniac own superstructure, ones that did not even serve much of any function!) the destruction and devastation humans cause is usually to a great extent irreversible. If it is reversible, it will take so much time, we likely won't be there to enjoy it when recovery has started to come around. No, we are a plague, body, and we don't need to destroy some pristine woods for a bit of gold, there's enough ways to get to it that do not cut into our overall source of life that deeply, and that so not involve making it suffer such great losses. No, I maintain that 'mining' this way is a blunt way to operate. We at least need more intelligent and considerate ways to approach it, which usually requires more work, more effort. If we cannot figure out a far better way to do it, we simply should not touch it.
My Father in law and his Brother had placer mine and they blasted 10:31 in the winter above Dawson City they blew some caps off and blew the windows out of the finning shop one day the guy they were partners with who had leased the claim with got hit head on with mine truck after come back from selling gold and they lost the lease on the claim the guy that owned it took it back sad story when they were doing so good for them
"can`t show you this machine, they so no... climbs up the machine anyway and shows all the cool stuff =D
So good to watch you again Michigan
I LOVED Dawson City ! When I was growing up my parents took us there to camp several times. We’d take the ferry into town and walk around the streets and shops. At least one night my parents would go into town to a place I think was called Galloping Gerties. They had dance hall girls that would put on a show. My sister and I would stay back at camp, roast weenies and marshmallows. On two occasions, a private boys school were there the same time we were so we’d make friends with them and hang out for the night until my parents got back. The drive from Anchorage was incredible! We saw so much historical stuff and native traditions at native towns. Lots of memories!❤️
Diamond Tooth Gerties.
Yes! I was close! 😂. Love that place!!
Frank & Sharon's "welcome" sign = danger keep out 😂 Great still pictures at the end 👍. 🍻 & Rock On!
Looks like fun. Thanks Frank!
Extremely cool, as always. Thx for sharing.
My pleasure!
They had to ban the use of monitors here in Northern California. The miners were blasting down entire mountains which was silting up the rivers and causing entire towns down stream to flood. There's still a few monitors around to see around places like Cherokee, just north of the town of Oroville. There were diamonds discovered there before they found gold. There is still a working diamond mine in that area. And up around Whiskeytown, which I got to explore the old mining town in the early 1960s before Whiskeytown Dam (which my grandfather designed and engineered) was filled and the town got flooded. --- I've never seen any remnants of steam or electric dredges around here but have seen old photos of them working in the Yuba and Feather Rivers, and there are still some tailings piles remaining.
Great content as always Frank!!!!!!! Looking forward to part 2!!!!!!!
Coming soon!
great idea for a series i love gold rush
North, to Alaska, North, The Rush Is On! Or, still going on. Thanks, Frank, and Sharon! Looks like you were having a lot of fun.
Dawson City was a lot of fun. Lots of cool stuff to see there!
Nice work u 2 ! Very interesting!! Thnk u Frank & Sharon !👍👍👍
Glad you enjoyed it
Hi Frank & Sharon, it's so interesting to see the different methods that were used through the centuries to obtain the gold. An awesome video, thank you for having us along on your trip, much love. xx💖🤘🤘
Thanks so much
@@exploringabandonedmines 🤘💖
Great video! You hit pay dirt with this one!
I did!
Beautiful drone work frank
Thank you kindly
I hope you never stop making great videos
That's the plan!
SO VERY COOL, I GRADUATED JUNEAU DOUGLAS HIGH IN 1986. LOVE ALASKA!!! THANKS FOR ALL THE VIDEOS AND MEMORIES!!!
Very cool, loved the tour of the Dredge.
Hi, Frank and Sharon, Thanks for taking us all along to Dawson City. My wife love to watch The Gold Miners, so I've seen some of this stuff. Sharon sure was having fun on that Hydraulic Mining and I got a big kick out of when she ribbed you about doing better than you did. The biggest magnet: "Unstable Structure ---KEEP OFF", up the bucket line you go.. It looked like it would take the rest of your life trying to learn how to operate that dredge.....lol. God Bless and stay safe.
Glad you enjoyed it
great tour frank and sharon
Frank And Sharon great the way you used the hydraulic monitoring . History of the placer mining artifacts.
Wow! Love the history. Can’t wait for the next one great job Frank & Sharon!
Glad you enjoyed it
This is a great video, love the history and the Sabre tooth tiger head!!❤️❤️
Glad you enjoyed!
Sharon, excellent photography. Obviously there is still plenty of colour to be had throughout the area, Frank. Great to see the photographs at the end of the videos now, it brings your channel up a level.
Yes, thanks
Fascinating place, great stuff 👍
Greetings from Clay County, Missouri, USA!
Sourtoe Cocktail ???
Thanks again ! 4 thumbs up! PEACE
Really enjoyable, informative episode. Grand job you were doing with the high pressure hose, the big grins on your faces said it all. Some great photography at the end. Thank you Sharon and Frank. ❤️👍❤️
Glad you enjoyed it. Sharon took the pictures.
Great video. Thank you
You are welcome!
nice grab after going trew the step :)
lookslike you guys had an awsome time this summer and fall!!
We did!
Totally enjoyed that. Dredge was very interesting to see, and in decent shape too.
Yes it was!
Great drone work and a nice explore from that extremely dangerous dredge lol looked very solid too me, thnx loved watching Frank.
Fun as always
Great vid yet again!..lookin forward to the next part
Thanks 👍
Cool tour thanks . It’s almost worn out enough to be a Tony Beets rig .
Doesn’t look like that dredge has been used in years but amazingly the toilet still works.
That tiger skull uas awesome. I would of freaked if i found that
Great video man.. Loved it an I'm really looking forward to the next one. Y'all be safe..🍺🍻✌
Thanks 👍
8:01 your face when she said im doing a better job than you... ha lol priceless hahaha. Nice seeing you really happy..glad you found a good one buddy. Shes a keeper for sure.
Yes she keeps me on my toes!
aye villain, you get my thumbs up for coming up with such a great name
@@harrickvharrick3957 haha thank you
AWESOME CLASSIC FRANK COOL TO SEE THESE GOLDEN GEMS BROTHER LOLOLOLOL 🤣🤣 EVEN A CRAPPER A FEW OF THEM LEFT IN THE STATES LIKE MONTANA , WATCH THEM STEPS BROTHER YOU TWO TAKE CARE 🤘🤘🤘
I got a feeling Frank wished he could go back and see that stuff in it’s hay day!
Been a little while, good to see you're doing alright Frank! cool video! thank you for sharing.
really neat thank you
Very welcome
That's crazy all the dinosaur and tusks wow
Dinosaurs were around millions of years ago. These were from the last ice age 10,000 years ago.
Absolutely fascinating as always thank you :) I think Tony has at least 2 dredges running now doesn't he? Can't wait for the next part of this. Take care
He only has one and a bunch of parts neither is running.
@@exploringabandonedmines Fair enough :) I stand corrected, it was brilliant to look around that one on your video and i can't get over how knowledgeable you guys are :) I always learn something.
watching from Caldwell, Idaho
Your videos are always interesting. We never know what you are going to come up with next. Keep up the good work!
watching from louisville,kentucky
To operate a dredge, there would need to be 4 winches for movement side-to-side and forward. A winch for raising and lowering the bucket ladder. A winch to adjust the height of the tailings conveyor. The buckets would be lowered to a depth below the bottom of the pontoons or bedrock and then a winch on the front would pull in line while the winch on the other side would let out line swinging the dredge and bucket ladder in an arc while scooping up gravel. At the end of the swing the front winches would swap roles and the winches on the rear or aft would let out enough line to move forward enough to keep digging into the gravel. The bucket ladder would need to be lower than the bottom of the pontoons so the dredge would float while the swing would be wider than the pontoons so they would not get caught on the gravel or tailings. Modern sand, gravel, and mud dredges use the same method only the cutter is usually a ball type instead of the buckets.
Waaay Cool! Absolutely Mindblowing to think they actually had men that got these mining operations underway, and actually funded by Investors looking for a fast return on their dollars. And to think they also had the Factories running and the designers and draftsmen way back then to build and deliver those Mammoth dredging machines!..and in the middle of nowhere! Speaking of "Mammoth" Machines...those teeth were scary! To think what all existed and roamed the lands centuries ago! I bet that sabre tooth skull would bring a small fortune to a collector! Something to see the old mines too eh?..where the men had originally tried to get to the gold! God! how the hell did they dig through that permafrost!? That was an excellent Video Frank! Vey well done! It was as if I was climbing around through that dredger right with you. Cute to see Sharon "showin you how its done" on that hose too!...eh? Ha - Ha! :o) Yeah,.just imagine what size of gold nuggets all rolled around and went through that tumbler part of that machine eh? I wonder if those investors really did get their money back?..and then some? Probably! $$$ :o) What a lifestyle and job that must have been for the men that did that and lived up there! Kinda funny to see that men are still at it too! Nice to see you and Sharon up in the Sunlight for a change! :o) Thanks again For another evenings adventure! Peace & Luv!
There dredges were built up there mostly out of wood. All the metal parts came from down south.
Was that shot of the old gun in the artifact room/man cave from a 1873 winchester repeater!? lots of great content in this vid! always try to imagine while out exploring what the old placer mined valleys and rivers would have looked like back in the 1800s when they were being mined.Watching this vid was like taking a tour right to back into that by gone era! thanks for sharing.
I don't remember it isn't mine.
@@exploringabandonedmines 10:19 looks like one of the rarer .22 cal hexagonal barrel 1873 models not an expert just an amature relic/artifact hunter of sorts in spare time.
AWESOME!!! THE YUKON!!!
Yeah!!
Well, Frank my Brother this was way way way to much fun. If I would have been there physically with ya man I would have had more fun than a fat rat cut loose in a cheese factory. Awesome as always Frank TY and seriously cant wait to see part 2 :)
That was Cool
10:14 pretty much the the coolest thing in this video
Should be pannin that, the gold is so fine th3 old machines couldn't pick but big chunks all the tailings from days of old should be rerun
It's amazing that they made that stuff over a 100 years ago. The drudge outside of Virginia City, MT is a 1/4 of that size.
That is actually a small one the others were much larger.
I've been waiting for this!!!! Yes and thank you!
You are so welcome!
This is like a ship.Yes a factory ship.
I've seen a monitor in New Zealand back when was a little kid, being used to sluice gravel and dirt to find alluvial gold .Still plenty of gold there but the use of hydraulic monitors was banned years ago.
those mammoth tusks aren't they worth a lot of$$$$$. GREAT VIDEOS...
Yes they are.
Frank The Tank!!!
That is sooo cool! A guy could have pretty much endless fun exploring a place like that. Did you get to bring back anything for the collection? I think a sabertooth skull would go nicely in the museum
No just pictures
Was it "legal" to follow behind these dredges and mine the tailings? Seems as though there would be plenty of large nuggets left behind.
There could be but they would likely be buried. You might get lucky with a metal detector!
Frank I never know you could handle a big tusk like that with your hands. Am wondering how heavy was that tusk ???? Thanks, VF
About 80 lbs.
@@exploringabandonedmines Thank much for letting me know. Peace. VF
@@exploringabandonedmines If I would need a huge tusk specimen I know the man to call for sure !!!!!! VF
Hello just some info in Sumster Oregon there what they call Gold Dredge park state park with dredge just like this that you can walk around in side and ranger talks about it free or donations great area. Cjd wash state enjoy.🤔 P.s. and a true story about the dredge worker who did not go home that Night 🤔 Great video To Frank and team
Hello again when my girl friend and I went we walked in the main door we Both had a starage feeling and later about an HR later we found out why we had that strange feeling 🤔 100 o/o all true check it out🤔 now we have a tag lock safety programs in most of the world 🙏 be safe and wise.your video is 100 o/o Great .
Thanks for the info!
That dredge was in great condition, was the engine/generator missing?
We visited 5 of them some were wood fired and ran on steam some were electric.
The dredge is amazing be nice if tony. Could get it running
His dredge is on next weeks show.
It's said that those bucket dredges left so much gold behind in the tailings and ppl have found lots of gold in them. I'd love to be one of them except I would pay to have the rights to prospect. Great video indeed always great to see
Sharon gets to handle the big nozzle. Those tusks, teeth and skulls are way older than the permafrost. Ten thousand years is small cakes. Those older tusks may go back 25 thousand years. This dredge is in better condition from the one that was stuck in that swamp. It would be nice to see a video of a dredge like this in operation. Especially the helm.
Tony Beets had an operating one on Gold Rush about 5 years ago.
I think I'll be going back to Dawson next year. I did NOT spend enough time there when I went in 2013! I wonder if anybody in that pit downtown sampled any of the dirt they were digging!
They were running it through the wash plant.
@@exploringabandonedmines I meant where they tore up the road in town in the first drone shot of Dawson.
would love to see that dredger brought back to life, think if I had real deep pockets would be willing to invest in something like this. would it be worth looking for gold in the tailings?
No they already got the Gold out of the tailings,
@@exploringabandonedmines dam was just going to book my flight over and start panning the tailings
Great video I can only imagine how long that took to assemble all of that dredge boy on operator would have to know his shit in which lever to pull
Great Video Frank! Did the dredge supply its own power? I was looking for a generator but didn't see one.
They almost always did
Some were hooked to shore power others were steam powered.
All the man hours in building and equipping a dredger ! Now it just sits their doing nothing sad Great videos as always 5 stars Plus !
It was built for TV. I am glad they did rebuild it, I think it was the best thing on Gold Rush!
Better than Goldrush with Parker this is.
Did the dredge use elecricity to run it or a boiler.
We have seen both types in the Yukon. This one was steam powered.
Didn’t know they still hydraulic mined anywhere in Canada
Please tell me they contact the local paleontology department about those finds? Some of those specimens were on amazing condition! Those Bison Latifronds were perfect they also had a horn sheath from the Bison! Then they had what looked like Homotherium skall! (the Saber tooth) I'm a dumb ass I know, but to me, those were worth more than the gold... I love your work frank, I live in Georgia USA where it's kinda hard to find any good mines to go into...funny thing is I'm not far from Dahlonega, Georgia where the first gold rush of America happened in 1829. Maybe one day you could come down here and show me how it's done properly?
@wyomarine you are very correct, I apologize for my wrong identification not sure why I thought it was Latifronds, I know the difference... Maybe my haste in writing my comment, I was at brake at work and didn't have much time to put much thought into it. Thank you for the proper info...
that dredge is literally a land yacht. it just sails right through that pay.
I wonder how loud it would have been.
I would love to see one running!
Cool video thanks. I just did a video on my channel getting gold inside of an old dredge cool old history.
Frank you said 6000 psi for that Hydraulic monitor ? Nope. more like 200 psi
and the operator on a dredge is called a Leverman Just a friendly FYI
The line is probably less than that. The nozzle pressure is 6,000 according to the operator.
how that ship move/float without water ?
They dig a pond around it and fill it full of water. As the dredge moves forward the pond moves with it.
Are they for sale the Mammoth skull and teeth and tusks?
Not that I know of. I have seen similar for sale in stores around Dawson City.
Them skulls and bones sitting outside is painful to see. I guess they see so many of them it's not a big deal really lol.
Thats how they mine in Ghana and other similar places with a giant hose
I've been watching from episode one.
Seriously Frank, your the only guy to come out of these mines looking 10 years younger. But you didn't mine to much i guess.
It is amazing less grey in the beard and feel younger every year!
6000 PSI ???? I do not believe that hoses that you are showing would take that pressure. But anyway the video was just great. I am surprised that the wash mining is still allowed. That totally devastated the ecology of the area. Man's greed for GOLD is neverending. Peace, VF
6,000 Psi at the nozzle is what he told me.
@@exploringabandonedmines He probably meant 600 max. Six thousand is way way higher than the piping could take as it looks like aluminum type. Thanks you Frank for your sincerity and honesty on the show. That is why you are successful on TH-cam. Please keep the shows coming. Peace, VF
What kind of drone do you use?
DJI Phantom 4
Nice to see you hanging out with some real Yukon gold. Placer miners like the Favrons are just great people in general, and it's too bad personalities like Tony make them look like a joke.
They were really nice to us. They live there year round and make all their money from Gold mining not producing TV shows and doing a little mining in the summer. They are real Gold miners.
They should use these to disperse riots.
Man I would love to buy some of those bones, do you think they would sell any?
You can't take them out of the Yukon without a permit.
@@exploringabandonedmines oh ok, that makes since.
Knife makers might pay some big money for the mamouth teeth and tusks
Really cool video but I hated to see remnants of the hard rock miners from so long ago destroyed but considering how prone to collapse all those tunnels and adits were this was probably the most effective way to expose and collect artifacts. The hydraulic mining operation would seem to draw Paleontologists since the bones of the Wooly Mammoths and Saber Tooth Tigers (Cats) have been extinct since the Earth started to warm around 10,000 years ago (Neanderthal's unbridled use of fossil fuels?) Actually, it became too warm for the plants to thrive which caused the Mammanths who were herbivores to die which caused the Cats, who ate the Mammanths, to die. Of course, this was about the same time humans stopped evolving as the weaker species died off while the rest lived on to become politicians and lawyers. Concerning the dredge, why was the conveyor for the waste rock covered?
Good question I don't know, but they all seem to be.
Are you and tony friends?
No
Way cool eh?
Doing this they irreparably destroy the (top) soil layer. All organics are flushed away, basically they leave sand only and set up those parts of the environment they touch this way to become desert. It is basically ludicrous to do this (destroy 6, 8, 10 meters of fertile ground only to get to a layer of rock that lays underneath, and not only remove all that lives above that but destroy it permanently. I would be a strong proponent of making this type of (erm could one call it 'mining'?) illegal.
The placer mining in Dawson covers a fairly small area less than 100 square miles.
nothing is permanent, nature will always reclaim it back. Dinosaur bones were not lying in modern topsoil, if you if you know what i mean...
@@exploringabandonedmines And there's a settling pond. Where there's a settling pond there's recoverable organics and I'm sure that much later on those cuts are going to get covered. Also... permafrost zone, it's not exactly like future farmland is destroyed or there was some incredible biodiversity in a climate zone that's liable to freeze solid for better than half the year. Harrick sounds like the people whinging about trampling into the vast mud plains in the Alaskan north...
@@holisti Top soil over the thousands of years keeps growing IF PLANT LIFE AND ~ GROWTH MAINTAINS IN THAT PLACE. Not when it is permanently made impossible be cause the necessary conditions are destroyed. In that case it has to start building up from scratch again, starting with micro - and very small organisms. Now sometimes SOME fertile soil (organic materials, plant rests) may form new small layers if wind and/or water can carry out that way. But that is nothing in comparison, age in this case the subsoil is completely WASHED, even water soluble minerals are wasted. Furthermore whether or not rain, hail, snow will fall in a larger area (as well as the presence of moisture in the local atmosphere) also depend mostly on the presence of plant life there as (besides keeping the fertile soil from being eroded away (washed, blown by the wind) the fauna maintains and manages water, and be cause of the evaporation that it causes, maintains and makes more steady by holding reserves - everything plants manage underground happens through the collective root systems of trees, bushes and all other plants of course - Life's very possibility to maintain with that depends on the very presence of plane life, it is like a cyclic thing, everything in the process both depends on its other aspects and takes care of them. That being said, I would not call a hundred square miles small scale, that is a huge area. The point is that on every (square) meter mankind claims, we are usually killing each and every thing that lives on that amount of surface. Plants and animals 'individually', and with the vast amount of direct surface we claim, tens of not hundreds of thousands of miles asphalted, turned into cities of concrete and stone, plus our influence through chemical products and waste and exhausts, complete species overall, hundreds of 'wild' (solemnly naturally evolved) species disappear every year. Whether it is nowadays with parking lots and for instance concrete high-rises or long time ago millions of square kilometers over the span of centuries by 'the' faraos, who created complete deserts the size of a subcontinent building pyramids (their megalomaniac own superstructure, ones that did not even serve much of any function!) the destruction and devastation humans cause is usually to a great extent irreversible. If it is reversible, it will take so much time, we likely won't be there to enjoy it when recovery has started to come around. No, we are a plague, body, and we don't need to destroy some pristine woods for a bit of gold, there's enough ways to get to it that do not cut into our overall source of life that deeply, and that so not involve making it suffer such great losses. No, I maintain that 'mining' this way is a blunt way to operate. We at least need more intelligent and considerate ways to approach it, which usually requires more work, more effort. If we cannot figure out a far better way to do it, we simply should not touch it.
Always one of these in every crowd.. Go away.
My Father in law and his Brother had placer mine and they blasted 10:31 in the winter above Dawson City they blew some caps off and blew the windows out of the finning shop one day the guy they were partners with who had leased the claim with got hit head on with mine truck after come back from selling gold and they lost the lease on the claim the guy that owned it took it back sad story when they were doing so good for them
Are you the Religious trucker from IceRoad truckers
No!
Shouldn’t they turn all the bones in to someone.?
why? and who? ...and WHY?!
@@WacKEDmaN why.? Cause there from the ice age duh an a museum might want them.
@@austincook5488 im sure the museums already have tons of them... literally tons!