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2. Dredge No. 4 - Wikipedia

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   Dredge No. 4 (Hän: Lëzrą Kä̀nëchà "s/he is looking for money") is a wooden-hulled bucketline sluice dredge that mined placer gold on the Yukon River from 1913 until 1959. It is now located along Bonanza Creek Road 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) south of the Klondike Highway [ 1 ] near Dawson City , Yukon , where it is preserved as one of the ...

3. Bonanza Creek - Wikipedia

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   Designated. 1998. Bonanza Creek (Hän: Ch'ö`chozhù' ndek) is a watercourse in Yukon Territory, Canada. [2] It runs for about 20 miles (32 km) from King Solomon's Dome to the Klondike River. In the last years of the 19th century and the early 20th century, Bonanza Creek was the centre of the Klondike Gold Rush, which attracted tens of ...

4. Discovery Claim - Wikipedia

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   Discovery Claim is a mining claim at Bonanza Creek, a watercourse in the Yukon, Canada. It is the site where, in the afternoon of August 16, 1896, the first piece of gold was found in the Yukon by prospectors. The site is considered to be the place where the Klondike gold rush started. It is located around 17 kilometres (11 mi) south-southeast ...

5. Yukon gold miners are unearthing mummified ancient creatures ...

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   Gold miners in the Yukon are discovering mummified ancient animals from the Ice Age. Paleontologists often gather truckloads of fossils from the mines, but mummies are special and rare.

6. M1918 Browning automatic rifle - Wikipedia

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   The Browning automatic rifle (BAR) is a family of American automatic rifles and machine guns used by the United States and numerous other countries during the 20th century. . The primary variant of the BAR series was the M1918, chambered for the .30-06 Springfield rifle cartridge and designed by John Browning in 1917 for the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe as a replacement for the ...

7. Black Mike Winage - Wikipedia

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   Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. Nationality. Serbian, Canadian. Occupation (s) Prospector, pioneer, adventurer. Michael "Black Mike" Winage (14 March 1870 – 15 March 1977) was a Serbian Canadian miner, pioneer and adventurer who settled in the Yukon towards the end of the Klondike Gold Rush and who allegedly lived to be 107 years old. [1][2][3]