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The northern gold fleet

twentieth-century gold dredging in Alaska

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The northern gold fleet

twentieth-century gold dredging in Alaska

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The Northern Gold Fleet is the story of how new gold-dredging technology was applied to the rich placers of the Far North from 1899 to the present, leading to mass production and economies of scale that made previously unprofitable resources profitable. The bucket-ladder dredge was a single, complex apparatus that rivaled ocean freighters in size. At once ugly, spectacular, and awesome, the dredges dug, classified materials, and performed gold-saving and tailing-disposal functions.

A richly illustrated and comprehensive history. The Northern Gold Fleet is part environmental, part technological, part corporate, part labor, and part Alaskan in its thrust, offering a picture - both dazzling and absorbing - of how new technology simultaneously helped build the economy and lay waste the resources of Alaska.

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University of Illinois Press
Language
English
Pages
302

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Subjects
History, Gold discoveries, Gold mines and mining, Gold dredging, Gold mines and mining, alaska, Alaska, history
Places
Alaska
Times
20th century

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The northern gold fleet: twentieth-century gold dredging in Alaska
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Table of Contents

"Jackass machinery" at Nome : the early years
Small dredges and small profits : the pre-World War I boom
"It takes a little more than 'hot air' to thaw some of that ground" : the Hammon Consolidated gold fields at Nome
The gold dredging operation par excellence: the Fairbanks Exploration Company
Between the wars
Fairbanks Exploration goes to war
The postwar world of dredging
Steam, diesel, or electric power?
Winchmen, point doctors, and bull cooks
Navigating the northern waters.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-286) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
622/.3422/09798
Library of Congress
TN423.A7 S74 1996, TN423.A7S74 1996

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302 p. :
Number of pages
302

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OL796569M
ISBN 10
0252022181
LCCN
95032474
OCLC/WorldCat
32924859
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2254355
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4411700

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