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History preserved
Fascinating historic dredge preserved for tourists to explore and understand how gold and tin mining took place in the area. A huge dredge operating from 1936 to 1954 producing 70,000 ounces of gold a...
The El Dorado dredge is an impressive piece of heritage listed historical machinery that you can get up close to. Plenty of historical information at the site: well worth the detour to get here: take...
The dredge operated from 1934 until 1954 extracting tin and 2.2 tons of gold valued today around $60 M.It is a massive steel structure weigh over 2,000 tons. It is well signed and open for visitors b...
Explanatory signage is excellent. This 2,100 tonne machine was more of a floating factory than dredge. It was maneuvered by a series of winch-lines attached to the 'shore'. Raw material in from the...
The dredge may have seen better days, but you get a sense of what it must have taken to get this operational back in the early 1900's. The levers to work it must have taken some time to get to know...
History preserved
Fascinating historic dredge preserved for tourists to explore and understand how gold and tin mining took place in the area. A huge dredge operating from 1936 to 1954 producing 70,000 ounces of gold a...
Impressive
The El Dorado dredge is an impressive piece of heritage listed historical machinery that you can get up close to. Plenty of historical information at the site: well worth the detour to get here: take...
Massive & Historically Interesting
The dredge operated from 1934 until 1954 extracting tin and 2.2 tons of gold valued today around $60 M.It is a massive steel structure weigh over 2,000 tons. It is well signed and open for visitors b...
Needs to be seen to be believed
Explanatory signage is excellent. This 2,100 tonne machine was more of a floating factory than dredge. It was maneuvered by a series of winch-lines attached to the 'shore'. Raw material in from the...
Part of a bygone era rich in history
The dredge may have seen better days, but you get a sense of what it must have taken to get this operational back in the early 1900's. The levers to work it must have taken some time to get to know...