AU Grabber

The AU Grabber (pronounced as: Gold Grabber) is an self-propelled barge excavator dredge used to mine Bering Sea placer gold deposits in the region around Nome, Alaska, USA. It is owned and operated by Richard Schimschat and featured in the Discovery Channel USA mining reality TV show Bering Sea Gold.[1][2][3][4] It cost $600,000 to buy.[5] In 2017 a 120 lb two week old walrus calf was found on the dredge.[6]

References
  1. "Discover series 'Bering Sea Gold' aims for pay dirt". The Seattle Times. 22 January 2012.
  2. "Reality Check: 'Bering Sea Gold' plumbs the depths for TV drama". Anchorage Daily News.
  3. Maguire, Sean. "Two-week old walrus calf rescued from Nome and brought to Seward". www.ktuu.com.
  4. "Walrus calf found stranded on Nome gold dredge". The Nome Nugget. 23 June 2017.
  5. "Hank Schimschat". Discovery. 6 February 2014.
  6. "Miners Were Dredging The Ocean For Gold When They Discovered An Astonishing 120-Pound Stowaway". 14 August 2018.

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