“To some, they look like a big pile of rocks,” said Dawson mayor Wayne Potoroka. Now, the City of Dawson has plans to turn one section of those old dredge tailings into a municipal historic site. They’ve sat there for decades, the legacy of the industrial gold dredging operations that dominated the region from the end of the Gold Rush until the 1960s.Īs the massive dredges crawled up creek beds in the Klondike, extracting gold from the gravel, the waste rock was ejected from their sterns, forming long, scalloped, snake-like mounds that have largely resisted nature’s attempts to take them back. July Creek Placer Co.The massive piles of gravel and rocks on either side of the North Klondike Highway are one of the most distinctive features of the drive into Dawson City. Fourth of July Creek Bauer Ellington Fourth f Julys Co.Edgecumbe Exploration Prospect (Placer).Chichagof Mining District (Chicagof Mining District).
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