It also built dams and ditches to generate hydroelectricity, and by 1911 the 7,500-kilowatt (10,100 hp) North Fork Hydro Power Plant was operational about 50 kilometres (31 mi) from the dredges it energized. The Canadian Klondyke Mining Company built the Twelve Mile ditch in 1909, which would supply the water to operate hydraulic monitors on dredges. There, financial services provided by the banks, administrative services provided by the Government of Canada, and the rail and steamship transportation network terminating at the city ensured that machinery needed for operation of the dredge would be readily supplied.

Integral to the operation of the dredge were the services available at Dawson City. This is considered the site where the Klondike Gold Rush began. During its operational lifetime, it captured nine tons of gold.Ībout 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) south of the dredge's current site, further into the Klondike Valley, is the Discovery Claim where gold was found in August 1896 by prospector George Carmack, his Tagish wife Kate, her brother Skookum Jim, and their nephew Dawson Charlie. It was in use from late April or early May until late November each season, and sometimes throughout winter. With its 72 large buckets, the dredge excavated gravel at the rate of 22 buckets per minute, processing 18,000 cubic yards (14,000 m 3) of material per day. It is the largest wooden-hulled dredge in North America. It is now located along Bonanza Creek Road 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) south of the Klondike Highway near Dawson City, Yukon, where it is preserved as one of the National Historic Sites of Canada. 4 is a wooden-hulled bucketline sluice dredge that mined placer gold on the Yukon River from 1913 until 1959. Historic gold-mining dredge in Yukon, Canada Dredge No.

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