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 big part in his life and the region — a gold dredge. One of the ...

FAIRBANKS - The Fairbanks Exploration Co.’s Gold Dredge No. 8 at Fox (shown in the drawing) is perhaps the most visible and well-known dredge in the Fairbanks area, but the FE Co. actually operated ...

FAIRBANKS — Summer 2018 will mark my 20th anniversary as a tour guide at Gold Dredge 8 in Fox. In that time, I have worked for several owners and presented information about the gold mining history of ...

The pictures we conjure of gold mining are usually cartoonish – old prospectors in floppy hats, panning creeks or working away with a pickaxe. Rarely do we imagine anything like the Sumpter Valley ...

While a total of nine dredges scoured bedrock gold in the Blue River area, only five worked at one time, during 1917 and 1918. The powerful Tonopah Placers Company dominated area dredging at that time ...