Clip of gold mining operations. Scenes include hydraulicing, point slamming, dredge operations, sluicing, aerial dragline, molten gold being formed into bricks, and weighing of gold bricks (Color/Silent/16mm film).
VIDEO HERE (6:44 minutes)
Clip of gold mining operations. Scenes include hydraulicing, point slamming, dredge operations, sluicing, aerial dragline, molten gold being formed into bricks, and weighing of gold bricks (Color/Silent/16mm film).
VIDEO HERE (6:44 minutes)
A drag line feeding a sluice box. That's a new one on me.
ReplyDeleteA lot of fancy terms that you don't hear on Gold Rush...
ReplyDeleteRobert Service comes to mind. There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold. The Artic trails have their secert tales that will make your blood run cold. The Northern lights have seen queer sights but the queerest they ever did see, was the night on the marge of Lake LaBarge I cremated Sam McGee.
ReplyDeleteThe gold prospector in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs movie (six 'shorts') is absolutely not to be missed.
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