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  • Patrick and Allan on the front boom - Bulolo
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    This photo shows my Papuan and Australian travelling companions topside on the Dredge, admiring the valley scenery as the Watut River meanders by. Note the heavy steel cables and reels used for controlling the various booms on the rig. All eight of these gold dredges were assembled from pieces flown in by Junkers G-31 tri-motor airplanes. There were four of these aircraft with 500-HP engines, one engine located on the nose and one on each wing. Cargo was lifted into their fuselage from the top by a crane and off they went on the short hop over the mountain range. Three of the airplanes met their end in 1942 when they were caught on the ground and destroyed by attacking Japanese forces in World War 2. The fourth one was in the air and managed to escape. However, it too was lost about a year later in the service of the Royal Australian Air Force when one of it's engines failed on take-off. The second photo shows one of my guys inside the dredge control room manning the levers used to run the dredge.

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    Gold Dredge No. 5
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  • Rear-End View of No. 5 Gold Dredge - Bulolo
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    This is a back-end view of the No. 5 Dredge, which was completed in 1937 and finally ceased operations in 1965. The large conveyor belt boom sticking out this back end was used to carry the material scooped up at the front end by a series of buckets. On the left side, the cable that is visible running up to one of the upright pillars was used to deliver the power needed to run the large electric motors on the dredge. On the ground, beside the lower right corner, one of my team is standing looking at the rig, giving you some idea of the size of these things. The brown blob on the ground in front of him, and also on the other corner of the rig, are pontoons used to float these structures on the Watut River as they did their work.

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    Watut River Valley
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    This photo was taken from 2300-ft elevation on the road leading up to one of the hydro generator stations (Upper Baiune) used to supply power to the industries here. It shows part of the mountain range that had to be dealt with, along with some sandy parts in the top left where the dredges had done their work. The small white blobs in the centre is where we stayed during our visit, at the residence of the local power system manager. To the right, the tubular penstock for carrying the water from the dam down to the generators below can be seen.

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    Dredge Pontoon & Control House
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  • Close-up of No. 5 Dredge - Bulolo
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    This view of the No. 5 Dredge gives a close-up view of the main control building housing the Operators, electric motors and other equipment required for the running of the dredge. At the lower right is a better view of one of the huge pontoons on the rig. These things were not perfect and, in fact, this dredge capsized in 1949 but was re-commissioned into service in 1951. The far left side of the picture shows the heavy and wide steel boom used at the 'working' end of the dredge. This is where the buckets gouged up the river bottom looking for gold and fed the material into the heart of the machine for processing before the waste was spit back out the other end. The second photo shows me standing beside a part of this heavy-duty boom.

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