Just learned something wild about the old dredge at Silverton

I was reading a local history book about Colorado mining and it said the dredge there processed over 50 million cubic yards of gravel. That's a crazy amount of material for a machine built in the 1920s. It ran for almost 30 years straight before they shut it down. Makes you think about the scale of work those old crews handled without any of our modern tech. Anyone know of other historic dredges with stats that blow your mind?

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dianagreen7d ago

50 million cubic yards is an insane number to wrap your head around. Those crews must have been built different.

julia_jones727d ago

My friend's grandpa moved dirt like that, @dianagreen, and his stories were wild.