Alaska Gold Dredge | My Alaskan Life
Oct 18, 2019· The buckets scoop up the gravel and dump it into sluice boxes inside the floating dredge, water is then pumped in to separate the gold from the gravel, and the worthless gravel is then dumped out the back. You can see the piles of gravel from these early mining operations still today around Fairbanks and Dawson city.