“We watched something go from a small gravel operation to a giant industrial operation in the past year and a half with what ‘Gold Rush’ was doing.” “We’ve seen a large jump in mining operations in this area and there just doesn’t seem to be any oversight of it,” Messa said. Style=”border:none ” data-rocket-lazyload=”fitvidscompatible” On Saturday, Save South Park held a fundraising event at the Riverwalk Center in Breckenridge, featuring four bands and a series of speakers who shared their concerns about the mining that has sprung up in Park County since “Gold Rush” came on the scene. “I think that’s what you’re seeing here, and that’s very encouraging.” “Things like this can often catalyze people to come together and combine their efforts to have a positive impact on their communities,” said Danny Teodoru, an attorney representing the group in Park County District Court. Stuckless sounding the alarm over possible mercury contamination in the Fairplay area and urging state regulators to investigate. Last week, the group published a 50-page report by geologist John S. Sponsored by the Colorado State Library, the regional library systems of Colorado, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.Ĭolorado School of Mines.The controversy also convinced some residents that there isn’t enough local control over mining in Park County, which they say risks spoiling their picturesque swath of the High Country and contaminating its waterways with old mining chemicals currently entombed in rocks. Dredge operations were suspended in 1942 and resumed in 1945, and finally shut down permanently in 1952. The dredge mined up to 15,000 cubic yards of placer gravels per day and could reach to a depth of 105 feet. The stacker then deposited the tailings along the river channel.
The dredge had over 100 buckets that fed gravel from the river bottom into the dredge's interior where it was milled. The Fairplay dredge was electrically operated and was the largest dredge in Colorado. The South Platte Dredging Company used it to mine the Fairplay placer along the South Platte River starting in 1941. This dredge boat was built by the Yuba Manufacturing Company and shipped to Fairplay, Colorado in sections. Slide showing the Fairplay dredge boat, which mined the Fairplay placer, Park County, Colorado. Held in the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum. Related slides and photographs: NMHFM-131, NMHFM-241, NMHFM-341, NMHFM-342.
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