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“There are a number of locations in the port, in the outer harbor, the Snake River, and the inner harbor that historically in the past have wintered barges and other types of vessels in the water,” said Harbormaster Lucas Stotts. Once he gets to the port a second vessel was going to escort them into the outer harbor. “I’m waiting on insurance to adjust my insurance policy to expressly cover freeze-in.” At the time he was contacted by phone he was pushing the barge toward the Port of Nome. “The Port has approved me to park in the harbor,” said Lee on Monday. It would be the largest barge pulled out in Nome. These pneumatic roller bags are going to be placed underneath the barge and we’ll connect the towline to a D8 cat, pull the barge partway up on shore, inflate the bags, and start rolling it up,” Lee described. “There are land anchors, called deadheads, that are buried. Last week the plan was to pull the vessel up the beach and onto private property. It’s all half-inch steel and it has thirty different separate voids.” It’s an ice class barge designed to be used in the Arctic. We added some stuff to the deck of the barge but the barge itself is pretty much unchanged. “They used the barge for Arctic Explorations as an oil spill response vessel. “We purchased the barge from Crowley,” he said. We just brought it up at the end of the year so we could do some on-site systems testing and then haul it out and make any changes,” Lee said. The barge stood offshore, waiting for weather conditions to improve so it could be moved up the beach. “We haven’t been mining with it yet,” said Lee, interviewed on the beach six miles northwest of the port at West Beach. Mr Birchfield said the gold dredge was mothballed due to resource consent issues and falling gold prices at the time, in 2012.Parking a 205- foot gold dredging barge for the winter can be a problem.Īndrew Lee of Tagiuk Gold has been working on a solution for his Tagiuk Provider, a 1,500-ton ice-class barge he brought up to Nome from Puget Sound this summer.

"This is all I can say at this early stage but we do have some significant things we want to achieve," Mr Courtesi said. "We have some innovative plans which will enable us to contribute back to the West Coast community in other ways - education, training and youth.

"We would expect to look at providing 50 jobs. "Obviously, it is subject to a due diligence process and if the conditions and obligation suit both parties, it is expected the sale of purchase will proceed. "We have made an offer to purchase and we want to recommission the dredge operation," Mr Courtesi said. Ngahere Mining Co chairman Bruce Courtesi confirmed his company was involved in sale negotiations and once completed, it would create employment opportunities. It lay idle for five years until being recommissioned in 2009, working through to 2012. Birchfield Minerals purchased the dredge in August 1992 and worked the goldmining operation until 2004. Hanson and started operation in 1989, but the company went into receivership eight months later. The dredge was built by American company R.A. The 30-year-old dredge is at Ngahere, about 22km inland from Greymouth. It is the gold dredge and my block of land, which at present is a dairy run-off." "Basically, the offer is three deals under one. "They have made an offer for the three farms and the dredge," Mr Birchfield said. The mothballed Birchfield Minerals giant gold dredge, in its working days on the West Coast.PHOTO: SUPPLIEDNgahere Mining Co is buying Birchfield Minerals' mothballed giant gold dredge and buying up three associated Grey Valley dairy farms.īirchfield Minerals managing director Allan Birchfield said there had been a strong expression of interest from the Tauranga-based Ngahere, which wants to recommission the dredge, understood to be the largest gold dredge in the southern hemisphere.