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
Sumpter Valley Gold Dredge
The Sumpter Valley Gold Dredge is a historic gold dredge located in Sumpter, in the U.S. state of Oregon. Gold was discovered in Sumpter in 1862. Three gold dredges were put into service in the Sumpter Valley district between 1912 and 1934.
Sumpter Valley Gold Dredge
Dredge in the early 1900s
Sumpter Valley Dredge #3, 2005