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It all started about 40 years ago i got bit by the gold bug in Colorado then we moved to Alaska in 92 bought a little 2 1/2 inch dredge found gold in reserection creek so bought a new 4 inch from Steve Herschbach at mining and diving . Attended a couple of outings down at crow creek with Steve Herschbach doing detector classes wife and i were hooked . Was able to buy 5 mining claims on silvertip creek dredged there for several years bought a 6 inch dredge from mining and diving we did ok there but i always wanted to try dredging up north Fairbanks area i saw a claim on eBay up near central but it was pulled of eBay after i bid the owner emailed me asking if i would be interested in the four claims above i said yes his family was just trying to get rid of them due to hard times.  Well the dredging was terrible because the creek was froze after a couple of feet. So i bought a small excavator built a small trommel  got a plan of operation started digging dirt the trommel maybe would run 5 yards an hour  but i was in good gold so we built a larger trommel out of a huge propane tank also built a feed hopper with a conveyor this plant will run about 35 yards an hour at but at this time we still had day jobs i worked for the Alaska railroad but 2 years ago i retired from the rr after 27 years. well last year with the virus we went up early mid may spent 3 months up there we are 100 miles north east of fairbanks no cellphone no internet gods country so i mined wife made quilts ,hunted Cariboo ,met some locals but the gold was good   first photo june 28 2017 still ice in creek bottom    second photo boss searching for heart shaped rocks   third photo and forth is stripped for this coming season     what is truly amazing about this valley the gold is just on the left side of the valley                                                                                                                                                                                      thanks doug

Since we are all bottled up inside staying out of the cold maybe this will warm up our insides for the winter.

thanks Doug

happy new year every one  -6 snow on the ground wasilla alaska

looks like there was a vein that it come out of and the host rock was broken off of it just my opinion

doug

i had a camel we tried using it for dredge clean ups about one half of the gold went out the back this was about 15 years ago they might of change things but i got rid of mine now i use a gold cube which i am very happy with i do clean ups coming out of our trommel that we run 40 yards an hour 

almost looks like tozalina lake

1 hour ago, phrunt said:

I see that happening on the Gold Rush show, they're always paying for things in gold.   I always thought it'd be illegal as you are avoiding sales taxes but then it can't be illegal or they'd be hiding it, not putting it on an international TV show.    I would imagine in NZ it would be illegal to buy something from a shop with some gold.  Even million dollar things like wash plants are paid for in gold on Gold Rush, the sales tax missed on something like that.

Alaska doesn't have sales tax some cities do have a local tax no state tax here either I have traded gold in the past for items so where you buy some things tax makes a difference when we bought our motorhome in Arizona the tax was over 10,000 dollars  

currently +18 snowing heavily with 36 inches on the ground with 12 more expected in Wasilla Alaska its been a real cold winter its been in the -40s in Fairbanks area all month hasn't gotten up to freezing for more than 90 days   

every one take care doug

we are leaving Alaska heading south to Nevada and Arizona for two months do we need to watch out for snakes and creepy crawlers leaving Wednesday

thanks doug 

awesome thanks for sharing

thanks for sharing

doug

thanks for sharing

awesome

merry Christmas to all from alaska

up here in Alaska starting Sunday the bottom is going to fall out of the thermometer the forecast is up to -55 I hope the cold don't get down there 

merry Christmas everyone from Wasilla alaska

thanks for sharing you have more snow than we do in Wasilla Alaska although its -8 below zero

thanks doug

thank you for sharing merry Christmas

doug