![]() (This is not the Myrtle Irene) Photo from Zach Hughes, KNOM file. Image at top: An old gold mining dredge near Nome from the ‘gold rush’ days. ![]() The latest season of Bering Sea Gold airs tonight on the Discovery Channel at 8pm EST. Angstman says if an early resolution is not agreed on, this civil case could take another year or two to resolve. On the judicial side of things, Nome Superior Court Judge Romano DiBenedetto is presiding over the Arctic Sea Mining lawsuit which is being heard at the local courthouse. “As soon as you think you’ve got the Bering Sea all figured out…it throws you a big curve ball.” – Shawn PomrenkeĪccording to Distractify, an online entertainment publication, both Pomrenke and Kerr have their challenging encounters with the powerful Bering Sea during this latest filming season. Here’s a clip of Pomrenke from a Discovery Channel video trailer on the upcoming television show. Gold, and Emily Riedel will be vying against Kerr this summer to become the top gold miner in Nome. Ken Kerr has more on his plate aside from this lawsuit against his company. Photo from Nome Police Department, used with permission. A vehicle after it struck the steel cable stretched across the Port Road during a car accident in October, 2018. Other factors Angstman mentioned that will be taken into account, are non-economic losses, which is described as pain, suffering, or loss of enjoyment of life and whether or not there’s been an educational interruption based on the severity of the incident.Īs the third party is also a minor, her identity is not being released by the court, however Angstman says she was a passenger in the truck during the 2018 vehicle wreck. ![]() “One is the cost of out-of-pocket expense that have been generated by the accident, in this case that’s primarily medical…One of the second factors then is any future medical or counseling expense that may be involved and we have not yet determined what that might consist of… A third factor is whether there’s any future wage loss.” – Myron Angstman Although they haven’t decided on an exact number, there are a few factors that would determine the final amount the minors claim. Comes with 5.5 hp Honda motor, T80 air pump, Hooka air line & tank. Keen 4 Suction Dredge (Mining & Diving » Soldotna) pic All original. Comes with sluice box, hoses, and Honda 4 stroke motor water pump. Since the suit was filed last year, Angstman says a third girl under the age of 18, has joined the suit seeking more than $100,000 in damages from Arctic Sea Mining. Proline High Bank Gold Dredge (Mining & Diving » Kenai) pic nearly new Proline Highbanker Gold Dredge. Myron Angstman is an attorney in Bethel representing one of the young plaintiffs in this case. ![]() That particular gold dredge, and Arctic Sea Mining, is owned by gold miner and tv personality Ken Kerr.Īs of this month, the lawsuit is in the early stages of discovery. One end of the cable was attached to a construction loader, the other was attached to an iconic Bering Sea Gold dredge, the Myrtle Irene. The incident occurred at the end of October 2018, when a pair of sisters, and their friend, were driving along the Port Road in Nome and struck a cable extended across the road. ![]() Late last year (November of 2019), two Nome high schoolers filed a lawsuit against Arctic Sea Mining LLC for injuries they suffered during a previous run-in with one of the company’s dredges. With the promise of tapping into undiscovered riches, this season also comes with the backdrop of an ongoing lawsuit against one of Nome’s main mining companies. It proved to be of little value and was abandoned in its present position early in the operation.Tonight marks the premiere of the 9 th season of Nome’s mining reality television show, Bering Sea Gold. The dragline standing on the bank of the dam was brought from the Yallourn Coal Mine to assist in creating the initial dam and the ongoing operation. The dredge originally worked to the north of its current site, the existing dam being constructed when the Porcupine Flat Gold Treatment Works were constructed over the original workings. This dredge is a smaller reconstruction of the one that operated in the Jim Crowe Creek south of Newstead, from 1948 to 1954. Operations ceased in 1984, after moderate success. He purchased the dredge sometime after 1958, and it may not have been fully operational until after 1973. Mr George Heywood commenced working the site at Porcupine Flat in 1958 where he developed the dredge operation on Porcupine Creek. Located at Porcupine Flat which was once a flourishing area of the Maldon goldfields, the dredge and dragline represent that phase of gold mining in Maldon when technology enabled relatively large scale reworking of earlier deposits which had first been worked by thousands of individual prospectors in the rush of the 1850s. ![]()
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