Prickly Pear Creek Dredge
Operational 1938 to c.1963
Moved to Brazil in 1977

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1955 Aerial Photo Detail Overlay on Recent
Satellite Image Showing Extent of Dredging
On Pricky Pear Creek

The dredge cut a four-mile-long swath along the course of Prickly Pear Creek.

 

 

1955 Aerial Photo of the Dredge
at the Southern End of the Dredging Operation

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To the Amazon

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A likely final destination of the dredge was the Brazilian cassiterite (tin) mining region of Mutum-Patlaná on the Madeira River, a tributary of the Amazon. The area is about 30 miles east of the Bolivian border.