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The Myrtle Irene (USCG id: 643114) is a crewed flat-topped power barge adapted into a littorals at-sea excavator dredge
mining vessel Mining is the extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth. Mining is required to obtain most materials that cannot be grown through agricultural processes, or feasibly created artificially in a la ...
designed By Tony Messina out of Northern Wisconsin . It is owned by
Arctic Sea Mining, LLC The Arctic (; . ) is the polar region of Earth that surrounds the North Pole, lying within the Arctic Circle. The Arctic region, from the IERS Reference Meridian travelling east, consists of parts of northern Norway (Nordland, Troms, Finnmar ...
and its registered home port is
Nome, Alaska Nome (; , , also ''Sitŋazuaq'', ''Siqnazuaq'') is a city in the Nome Census Area, Alaska, Nome Census Area in the Unorganized Borough, Alaska, Unorganized Borough of the US state of Alaska. The city is located on the southern Seward Peninsula c ...
, USA. This excavator dredge mining barge is introduced and featured since the 2018 season 10 in ''
Bering Sea Gold ''Bering Sea Gold'' (also known as ''Gold Divers'' in the UK) is a reality television series set in Nome, Alaska, on Norton Sound, that airs on Discovery Channel. It is from the creators of the ''Deadliest Catch'' reality TV show. The show is d ...
'', a Discovery Channel USA reality TV show on sea mining for gold in Alaska. ''Bering Sea Gold'', Discovery Channel USA, Season 10, 2018 ''Bering Sea Gold'', Discovery Channel USA, Season 11, 2019 ''Bering Sea Gold'', Discovery Channel USA, Season 12, 2020 The excavator dredge cost $6,000,000 to build.


Specifications

:Vessel 1495 * Launch date: 1981 * Length: ; with extension. * Width: * Depth: * Net tonnage: * Gross tonnage: * Mining rate: per hour * Mining depth:


See also

* Tuvli 160 * Christine Rose (dredge) * AU Grabber * Viking Dredge 1 * Viking Dredge 2 * Bima (dredge)


References


External links

* Boat Database (boatdb.net
Nome, AK port boats
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