![]() Larger material is sent out the back to be discarded in tailings piles. The buckets lift the material on board and dump it into a hopper, leading into a trommel which screens the gravels, sending fine material to be cleaned up for gold. Gold dredges are large floating machines which use steel buckets on a rotating 'bucket line' to excavate material such as sands and gravels from river beds. Operations continued with moderate success until 1984. He purchased the dredge sometime after 1958, although it may not have been operational until after 1973. "Mr George Heywood started working the site in 1958 where he developed the dredge operation on Porcupine Creek. he is everyone's mate! Well anyway this is what I found out. I guess they didn't think that more people would find this area so fascinating. you can't help but be interested! Why are they here?!?!? I looked for an information sign and other than the one that cited "Porcupine Flat Dredge" there was no other information. ![]() ![]() This is literally on the side of the road.
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