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dc.date1930?-1939?
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T05:55:35Z
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-03T09:22:00Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T05:55:35Z
dc.date.available2022-02-03T09:22:00Z
dc.identifierlibimagesNMHFM342
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11124/9677
dc.descriptionKodachrome.
dc.descriptionDate scanned: 2001-05-29.
dc.descriptionIdentifier: NMHFM-342.
dc.descriptionPlastic mount; text on front of mount.
dc.descriptionRelated slides and photographs: NMHFM-131, NMHFM-242, NMHFM-341, NMHFM-361, NMHFM-364, NMHFM-365, NMHFM-366.
dc.descriptionHeld in the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum.
dc.descriptionDonor: Charles Burgess.
dc.description.abstractSlide taken during the late 1930s showing the Fairplay dredge boat under construction. This dredge boat was built by the Yuba Manufacturing Company and shipped to Fairplay, Colorado in sections. The South Platte Dredging Company used it to mine the Fairplay placer along the South Platte River starting in 1941. The Fairplay dredge was electrically operated and was the largest dredge in Colorado. The dredge had over 100 buckets that fed gravel from the river bottom into the dredge's interior where it was milled. The stacker then deposited the tailings along the river channel. The dredge mined up to 15,000 cubic yards of placer gravels per day and could reach to a depth of 105 feet. Dredge operations were suspended in 1942 and resumed in 1945, and finally shut down permanently in 1952.
dc.description.sponsorshipSponsored by the Colorado State Library, the regional library systems of Colorado, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
dc.publisherColorado School of Mines. Arthur Lakes Library
dc.rightsRights management statement available at: http://library.mines.edu/digital/rights.html
dc.subjectSouth Platte Dredging Company
dc.subjectDredges and dredging
dc.subjectGold mines and mining
dc.subjectMining
dc.subjectPlacer mining
dc.subjectScenes, snow
dc.subjectSilver mines and mining
dc.titleFairplay dredge, under construction
dc.typeStillImage
dc.contributor.institutionColorado Digitization Project
dc.contributor.institutionNational Mining Hall of Fame and Museum


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