OLD DREDGE TAILING PILES

placertogo

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Aug 25, 2010
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Many of those old dredges threw everything over 1/2” out the stacker meaning anything over 1/2” containing gold is in the tailing piles. Good luck!
 

N-Lionberger

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The trommel screen sizes on dredges varied a bit. Out in the neighborhoods I poke around all the dredge tailings easily accessed are from bucket ladder operations, more often than not the sluice tailings are covered by the waste rock from the stacker. As I understand the best bet is chasing big nuggets with a detector in areas where broken up chunks of bedrock are seen in the stacker piles.
 

johnedoe

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There are a lot of old tailing piles being reworked at a profit ..........
 

alaskaseeker

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I agree, tailing piles are being reworked, but not with a MD, first of all you have to realize that they got most of the big gold, the fines are what they lost mostly, I know some have been lucky, I have spent much time in those piles from the Klondike to many places in Ak, I had better luck elsewhere... IMG_3210.JPG
 

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