A Houston, B.C. mining duo says their patented equipment has shown strong results in recovering gold from historic mine tailings in Juneau, Alaska.

Stan and Chris Spletzer are now completing construction of a custom-built dredge barge in their hometown after they were invited in 2016 by lease holders to bring their gold recovery system to Juneau’s Thane Road area, where tailings from the Alaska-Juneau (AJ) Mine remain, Stan Spletzer said in a letter to Houston Today .

Using fresh water flowing from the mountain, they processed five-gallon pails of material collected when the tide was out.

“It was a pleasant surprise to realize that our equipment was showing pure lines of gold with every bucket dumped into our system,” Spletzer said in the letter.

The AJ Mine opened in 1917 and closed

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