As Summer Dredging Returns to Nome, Some Expect Less Gold — and More Competition
![Dredge operators wait for the season's kick-off meeting to start in the Nome Mini Convention Center.](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_0746-1200x900.jpg)
“The easy gold is disappearing,” says retired mining engineer Randy Smith. In Nome, gold dredging is becoming an activity “for the more serious people now, not the get-rich-quick ones.”