Choie Sew Hoy also known as Charles Sew Hoy was a New Zealand merchant, Chinese leader, gold-dredger and a New Zealand Business Hall of Fame laureate. He was born in the village of Sha Kong in the Poon Yu District of Guangdong Province, China in about 1838.
Choie Sew Hoy, 1880s
A gold dredge is a placer mining machine that extracts gold from sand, gravel, and dirt using water and mechanical methods.
Gold Dredge, Klondike River, Canada, 1915
The Yankee Fork dredge near Bonanza City, Idaho, which operated into the 1950s.
Gold Dredge operating in Nome, Alaska in 1993