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Old 06-24-2013, 07:13 PM
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Originally Posted by DAVENYK66 View Post
According to what I have been reading this flood will rejuvenate the gold, sounds like it's not ever enough to get overly excited about but we will see.
A flood or high water will definitely move the gold around again.
Tom Clover who Cloverdale is named for in Edmonton, worked a sandbar in the middle of the river at low water. Every two years it produced in the top foot of material. The sandbar was originally called Clover's Bar.

The park on 50 st. called Gold Bar park was another area sandbar.

The gold dredges of the 1890's took out the bulk of the gold in the Edmonton area. Between 1895 and 1897 dredge production for the area was 7500 ounces.
The dredges were responsible for most of the mercury pollution as they lost lots of mercury in their operations.

Geologists know that the richest areas of the river are from south of Stony Plain to NE of Ft. Saskatchewan. A good mention of this is in a book called " A traveller's guide to Geological Wonders in Alberta.
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