A Gold Miner's Dream: The Holloway Bar Story - Part 1 of 4

A Gold Miner's Dream: The Holloway Bar Story has been in the works for many years now. Back in the mid-1990's, Scott and Christina had the vision to document the building of "The Wizard" gold plant and the first year's mining operation on Holloway Bar, as well as some of the prior year's prospecting around McDame Creek. A half-dozen years later Al got involved with the video end of things and created the first "long version" of the project. Earlier this summer, Scott and Al sat down and decided to finish the video and created a rough version of the story. The Summer 2010 portion of the video was filmed in June 2010 and the next six weeks were spent fine tuning the rough cuts to create this finished video.

This isn't your standard "Youtube Video" with a couple of minutes of random shots, but at over 54 minutes in length is more of a documentary and resource for those who have always wondered what it takes to make a gold mine. We hope you enjoy watching it as much as we did making it!

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Tags:

• placer mining
• gold mining
• holloway bar
• cassiar
• sluicebox
• mcdame creek
• gold rush
• gold rush alaska
• quartz creek
• trommel
• wash plant

[jonathonbyrd1]

Wow. Awesome to see such a large system being put together.

[BahtPannerMan]

great stuff, I feel yah.

[gangesexcavating]

this is a good group of videos you have here. I like the fabrication videos. We built our own gold trommel 6 years ago at our shop, but we sold it last year at Savona Equipment, outside Kamloops. We bought a RMS Ross Derocker from Dawson City Yukon for our operation in the Toodoggone area in BC, and man oh man we never looked back! The trommel was good, but the Derocker picked our production up tenfold! But I'm not here to hack on trommels, I just appreciate that you got this on YouTube.

[iamstarfox]

I find this interesting. Thank you for posting it. I look forward to seeing all the rest.

[riverbender]

Hey Fellas, that's a really EXCELLENT video... summing up the dream!

I've been hoping you'd document it in such a way.

Thanks and Heavy Pans,

faaus