It shimmers -- and sells for more than $1,100 an ounce. The tousled 30-year-old works a homemade gold-mining dredge along the banks of the Tambopata River, a tributary of the Amazon, keeping watch ...

It shimmers and sells for more than $1,100 an ounce. The tousled 30-year-old works a homemade gold-mining dredge along the banks of the Tambopata River, a tributary of the Amazon, keeping watch ...

Tony Beets takes a tense risk in employing a 75 year old ‘dredge’, that dredges up (hopefully) gold from the river bed. This machine was a huge risk as it took $1 million to fire up the old ...

These are the tailings piles from the numerous gold dredges that operated in the area up in the early half of the 20th century. "Breckenridge was founded on the discovery of gold," says Wendy ...

Also on this year's list is one of the state's first orchards, a gold dredge boat, and an old mining site. Denver Tramway Co. Streetcar No. 4 was part of a broad Denver-metro area rail system and ...