It proved to be of little value and was abandoned in its present position early in the operation. The dragline standing on the bank of the dam was brought from the Yallourn Coal Mine to assist in creating the initial dam and the ongoing operation. The dredge originally worked to the north of its current site, the existing dam being constructed when the Porcupine Flat Gold Treatment Works were constructed over the original workings. This dredge is a smaller reconstruction of the one that operated in the Jim Crowe Creek south of Newstead, from 1948 to 1954.

Operations ceased in 1984, after moderate success. He purchased the dredge sometime after 1958, and it may not have been fully operational until after 1973. Gold Dredge can be operated effectively by a small team of miners of. A common suction gold dredge design - 4' surface dredge with air compressor. Mr George Heywood commenced working the site at Porcupine Flat in 1958 where he developed the dredge operation on Porcupine Creek. Today Bryan Wilder explains how a Gold Dredge Works. The dredge does not require excavators to feed material so operating costs are very low.

IF YOU HAVE A SPECIAL NOZZLE YOU NEED, PLEASE LET US KNOW. Located at Porcupine Flat which was once a flourishing area of the Maldon goldfields, the dredge and dragline represent that phase of gold mining in Maldon when technology enabled relatively large scale reworking of earlier deposits which had first been worked by thousands of individual prospectors in the rush of the 1850s. ALL OUR GOLD DREDGE NOZZLES ARE MADE TO ORDER IN HOUSE AT OUR RETAIL FACILITY IN CLACKAMAS OREGON.

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