The Myrtle Irene (USCG id: 643114)
[ is a crewed flat-topped power barge adapted into a littorals at-sea excavator dredge mining vessel designed By Tony Messina out of Northern Wisconsin .][ It is owned by ]Arctic Sea Mining, LLC
The Arctic ( or ) is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth. The Arctic consists of the Arctic Ocean, adjacent seas, and parts of Canada (Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut), Danish Realm (Greenland), Finland, Iceland, N ...
and its registered home port is Nome, Alaska
Nome (; ik, Sitŋasuaq, ) is a city in the Nome Census Area in the Unorganized Borough of Alaska, United States. The city is located on the southern Seward Peninsula coast on Norton Sound of the Bering Sea. It had a population of 3,699 record ...
, USA.[ This excavator dredge mining barge is introduced and featured since the 2018 season 10 in '' Bering Sea Gold'', 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
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* Launch date: 1981
* Length: ; with extension.
* Width:
* Depth:
* Net tonnage:
* Gross tonnage:
* Mining rate: per hour
* Mining depth:
See also
* Tuvli 160 The Tuvli 160 (USCG id: 516564) is an ocean-rated crewed flat-topped barge in the process of being adapted into a powered littorals at-sea excavator-boomed suction dredge mining vessel. It is owned by Pomrenke Mining and its registered home port is ...
* Christine Rose (dredge)
* AU Grabber
* Viking Dredge 1
* Viking Dredge 2
* Bima (dredge)
The Bima () was a bucket-line dredge. It was built to mine tin in offshore Malaysia and Indonesia. In the late 1980s, it was moved to Nome, Alaska, USA, to mine seafloor placer gold deposits in the Bering Sea off the coast. Being unprofitable at go ...
References
External links
* Boat Database (boatdb.net
Nome, AK port boats
Bering Sea Gold
Dredgers
Ships of the United States
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