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The Eldorado Gold (and tin) Dredge: Rear end

This is a large steel dredge which was designed and built by Thompson's Engineering for the Cocks Eldorado Gold Dredging Company in 1935-36. By the time it was decommissioned it had dredged 30 million cubic metres from the river flats of the Eldorado Plain. It has 110 digging buckets, each of which was capable of digging and lifting 0.3 cubic metres of soil.

 

Cock’s Eldorado Dredge has remained in its final mooring place at Eldorado 20km east of Wangaratta since 1954. It was tied up here after operating for 18 years and winning 70,664 ounces of gold and 1,383 tons of tin concentrate from the rich alluvial plain of Reedy Creek.

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The Eldorado Gold (and tin) Dredge: Rear end

This is a large steel dredge which was designed and built by Thompson's Engineering for the Cocks Eldorado Gold Dredging Company in 1935-36. By the time it was decommissioned it had dredged 30 million cubic metres from the river flats of the Eldorado Plain. It has 110 digging buckets, each of which was capable of digging and lifting 0.3 cubic metres of soil.

 

Cock’s Eldorado Dredge has remained in its final mooring place at Eldorado 20km east of Wangaratta since 1954. It was tied up here after operating for 18 years and winning 70,664 ounces of gold and 1,383 tons of tin concentrate from the rich alluvial plain of Reedy Creek.

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Uploaded on April 24, 2015
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