The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
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A rich piece of Alaska's gold mining history is sitting in a dump in Tok after being demolished because the Bureau of Land Management deemed it dangerous. The Jack Wade Dredge at Mile 86 of the Taylor Highway was dismantled last month. The abandoned dredge sat on the bank of Jack Wade Creek for 72 years and was a popular tourist attraction on the 160-mile road from Tok to Eagle. "People loved to camp at it and to pan for gold there," said Robin Hammond, the postmaster in the small mining town of Chicken a few miles south of...
