Gold-mining methods in Canada's Klondike have come a long way since the days of the bearded prospector, crouching beside a stream and patiently swilling water around in a shallow pan. With 1981 being their first full season of operation, Queenstake look forward to 10 years of potental gold dredging operations at this central Yukon The resulting ground will remain thawed, and it is hoped that deciduous trees The tailings piles, mixing back the finer materials so that vegetation begins immediately. Queenstake Resources, owned 28 percent by Canada Tungsten, plan on doing land reclamation at their Clear Creek site. He said very few people would ever have the opportunity to assist in getting a Yukon gold dredge working again.ĭredging stopped in the Yukon in 1966, making this one the only one operating in Canada at present. Its 72 buckets send an eery sound across the valley when they are in motion diggingįor Lerner, it was a dream come true. Nothing goes wrong) and an oiler (who makes two trips per shift oiling the many parts. Lastįall, Queenstake ran the dredge on one four-hour and two 10-hour shifts of three men each: winchman, sterndecker (who watches the trommel and the stacker to make sure The old Vivian 600-rpm diesel generator, weighing 12 tons, was replaced by a new three-ton, 1,800-rpm, 320 h.p. Upstream 90 degrees, and the bucket line put on. The repair work was completed by theĮnd of August 1980, and because the dredge was sitting high and dry, they had to build a dike behind the dredge to refloat it and test its pontoons.
Drawings for some sections were located in San Francisco. Were hired, and the work in rounding up the parts, measuring, etc., began. Georgeīall, a consultant who specialized in repair and reworking of dredges, and Greg Hoggan, former superintendent of Pato Consolidated (a large dredging company in Columbia) Queenstake bought it in 1979.įormer dredge employees of the Yukon Consolidated Gold Corporation were contacted to assist in the remodelling and actual work of the dredge. Mid-1930s from California and worked by Clear Creek Placers until 1955. It was sitting high and dry, but vandals had left garbage all over the place and broken its windows. Steel were purchased to make the parts no longer obtainable, and the entire dredge was stripped down and each part measured for repair and replacement.
Project manager Jeff Lerner indicated there was much advance planning to rehabilitate the dredge, with its 3½-cubic-foot buckets: 150 tons of Year and had it back in operation on a trial run Sept. The dredge's owners, Queenstake Resources, a Vancouver-based mining company, began the major renovation project on the 1930s dredge last
Rebuilt at a cost of $1.5 million, the Walter Johnson Dredge, which resumed operations on Clear Creek June 27, is both a dream come 'Clear Creek, Canada's only working dredge'
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