Dredge Tailings

Dredge Tailings (HM22TK)

Location: Stanley, ID 83278 Custer County
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Country: United States of America
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N 44° 22.623', W 114° 43.368'

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The first prospectors on the Yankee Fork searched for small particles of gold known as "placer gold." Eroded from exposed ore veins in surrounding hillsides, placer gold washed down valley walls and collected in stream channels. Prospectors used gold pans, sluice boxes and hydraulic giants to remover placer gold from the Yankee Fork. Despite the variety of tools, each operated on the same principle. Water washed and agitated sand and gravel allowing gravity to separate the heavy gold particles form the lighter material surrounding it. The Yankee Fork Gold Dredge created the numerous gravel piles or "tailings" you see along the Yankee Fork River and provided the most visible evidence of placer mining on the Yankee Fork. Operating between 1940 and 1952, this depression era dredge removed enough gold to created a gold brick two feet square. Restored by former employees, the dredge rest here at the mouth of Jordan Creek near the site of the Yankee Forks's first gold discovery.
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HM NumberHM22TK
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Placed ByU.S. Forest Service, Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation, and the Bureau of Land Management
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Date Added Monday, November 13th, 2017 at 10:01am PST -08:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)11T E 681413 N 4916274
Decimal Degrees44.37705000, -114.72280000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 44° 22.623', W 114° 43.368'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds44° 22' 37.38" N, 114° 43' 22.08" W
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Area Code(s)208
Which side of the road?Marker is on the right when traveling West
Closest Postal AddressAt or near Yankee Fork Rd, Stanley ID 83278, US
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