That gold lay on average around 30 feet below the ground. It couldn't be mined with traditional mining techniques, it had to be dug up. To do that, large dredge boats would be assembled on site ...

In 1971, the Sumpter Valley Gold Dredge was added to the National Register of Historic Places, and 20 years later it was purchased by a public land trust and private individuals, who restored the ...

Gold Dredge No. 8 is a five-story, 1,065-ton structure. The bow gantry is 43feet tall and supports a beltdriven bucket line containing 68 steel buckets. Each bucket holds six cubic-feet and weighs ...

From the 1930s to the 1950s, with time out for World War II, this dredge’s buckets ate earth, spewed rock, and found gold $4.5 million worth at a time when its value was $35 per ounce.

A look inside a historic gold dredge near Marysville 02:29. Call it a history lesson paved in gold. A Yuba City man, 94, sent a letter to CBS Sacramento inviting us to tour something that played a ...

The Snowstorm Dredge was constructed in the 1930s after most of the gold mining activity in the state had long diminished. The Middle Fork of the South Platte River, however, had never been mined.

The historic Gold Dredge No. 3 north of Fairbanks went up in flames on Saturday afternoon, yet lack of fire service jurisdiction left the burning landmark without any firefighters.

The landscape of Baker County still holds scars from when giant gold mining dredges turned the Powder River and greater Sumpter area upside down for miles around.