8 cut a 4.5-mile (7.2 km) track and produced 7.5 million ounces of gold.įNSB GIS exhibit showing Gold Dredge #8 in pond between TL-2 & 9 on portions of USMS 851 & 1643. Starting in the 1920s, water was brought to the area through the 90-mile (145 km) Davidson Ditch for placer gold mining. It is located on the Old Steese Highway between Fairbanks and Fox in the central part of Alaska. 8 was operated by the Fairbanks Exploration Company (FE), a subsidiary of the United States Smelting, Refining & Mining (USSR&M) out of Boston, Massachusetts from 1928 to 1959. These small independent operations were replaced by heavily financed mining exploration corporations from the lower 48 States. They were no longer productive for small mining operators with pans, picks, shovels, and sluice boxes. It was one of eight huge floating stacker dredges which ate up gold bearing rock left behind when the early drift mines had been sold by the early miners. One very lucrative tourist venue is an abandoned gold dredge in Fairbanks. They come in huge cruise ships to disperse throughout the interior to experience the lore that was Alaska in golden days of yore.
But this one involves busloads of summer tourists. Just south of the arctic circle 160 miles in Fairbanks, Alaska there is a new gold rush.
while claim disputes during the gold rush in the early 1900’s continues today long after the paystreak has paid out.
The biggest was the boundary survey between Canada and the U.S. As a surveyor in Alaska there are tales of travails in the field which appear in many journals.
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