Tony Beets Mine Location Map: Paradise Hill and More

Tony Beets mines placer gold in the Klondike goldfields of Yukon, Canada, around Dawson City. The best-documented site on the Gold Rush television series is Paradise Hill, on the left side of Hunker Creek about 20 km (12 miles) in a straight line from Dawson (coordinates 63.983 N, 139.066 W, Alaska Volcano Observatory station record). Before that his crew worked Eureka Creek, where it joins the river south of Dawson, about 57 km south-east of town. His company, Tamarack Inc., is reported to hold 337 placer claims in the district (Canadian Mining & Energy).

This page puts those places on one table, adds straight-line distances we calculated from published coordinates, shows how much gold his crew has reported on screen each season, explains what a Yukon claim map does and does not show, and gives two calculators: one for claim acreage and one for the value of a block of gravel. It uses public sources only: the show, Yukon government data, Canadian news and the Alaska Volcano Observatory. It says nothing about private life or personal finances.

Tony Beets mine location map: the main sites in one table

Placer gold is gold that has washed out of rock and settled in gravel along streams. Placer mining (pronounced “plasser”) digs that gravel and washes it, so the map is a map of creeks. Dawson City sits where the Klondike River meets the Yukon River, at 64.06 N, 139.43 W (Wikipedia, Dawson City). Every Beets site below is south or south-east of that point.

Sources for the table: Paradise Hill coordinates from the Alaska Volcano Observatory; Eureka and Scribner coordinates, ownership and lease details from the location list in Wikipedia’s Gold Rush article; season 16 roles from Canadian Mining & Energy. Distances are great-circle (as the crow flies) figures we computed from the coordinates above; road and creek distances are longer. Wikipedia describes Eureka Creek as 30 miles south-south-east of Dawson, which is a road-style estimate that differs from our straight-line number. The Gold Rush page is a fan-edited reference, so we use it only for where creeks meet and for the lease note, and we checked the coordinates against the other maps in this section.

Paradise Hill on Hunker Creek: where his crew works now

Researchers who sampled volcanic ash layers at Paradise Hill describe it as on the left limit of Hunker Creek between Hester and Last Chance creeks (Alaska Volcano Observatory). That makes it a Hunker Creek site.

The show records the move. In season 10, Beets had to leave the Eureka Creek area on that river because water leases there expired, and he relocated to Paradise Hill, where he mined about 2,259 ounces that season (Wikipedia, Gold Rush season summaries). A water licence matters in placer work because the gravel is washed with creek water and the settling ponds must be permitted. A look at the Looper profile of Paradise Hill confirms that the claim sits in the Klondike and that Paradise Hill is one part of a wider Tamarack operation.

If you want to see the surrounding ground yourself, the best public view is the satellite layer on the Yukon government’s map viewer (see “How to read a Yukon placer claim map” below).

Eureka Creek and Scribner Creek: the earlier base

Before Paradise Hill, the Beets family ran the Eureka Creek site, where Eureka Creek joins that river. The show’s season 8 summary records 3,659 ounces mined there (Wikipedia, Gold Rush). That is also where he used a rebuilt vintage dredge. A dredge is a floating plant that digs gravel at the front, washes it on board and drops the waste out the back, so it advances through its own pond. The show’s cast notes say Beets planned to move a 75-year-old dredge from Clear Creek to a claim on that river, more than 150 miles away, for his crew’s first full season.

Scribner Creek has a different story. The Gold Rush list describes it as ground leased from Tamarack, and Parker Schnabel’s crew mined there from season 4, producing 7,427 ounces on screen in season 9 (Wikipedia, Gold Rush). So Scribner Creek is Beets-owned land that someone else mined. Treat any “Tony Beets mine” list that includes McKinnon Creek, Quartz Creek or Dominion Creek with caution: the show attributes McKinnon to a lease from a third party, and we found no source tying Beets to Dominion Creek, which an earlier version of this page wrongly listed.

Where is Tony Beets from?

Beets was born in the Netherlands. After taking over the family farm in the village of Wijdenes as a young teenager, he and his wife Minnie emigrated to Canada in 1980, and he later found work in a Yukon gold mine, according to a profile in Canadian Mining & Energy.

How far Tony Beets’s sites are from Dawson City

The mine sites are not in town. Paradise Hill is about 20 km from Dawson in a straight line, while the Eureka and Scribner sites are roughly three times as far. The chart below shows those straight-line distances. The mining season runs about seven months, according to the Canadian Mining & Energy profile, so crews and supplies move in and out of these creeks during that window.

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Straight-line distance from Dawson City to Beets sites

Kilometres, great-circle distance calculated from published coordinates

Because the three distances above come from different coordinate sources, treat them as indicative to within a few kilometres. If you plan a visit, do not drive onto a working placer claim. Claims are private working sites, and the road to them often crosses other people’s ground.

How many acres does Tony Beets own? Claims are not land

No public source we found states an acreage for Tamarack or for Paradise Hill, so any acre figure on a fan site is a guess. What is public is the number of claims: about 337 placer claims, as reported by Canadian Mining & Energy. A placer claim is a right to mine the gold in a rectangle of ground, not ownership of the land. Under the archived federal Placer Mining Act (the 2003 Yukon Placer Mining Act, SY 2003, c. 13, now governs, and Yukon’s data description below gives the same 500-foot length), a claim on a creek may not exceed 500 feet in length along the creek’s baseline, with side boundaries 1,000 feet either side of that line, so a maximum of 500 by 2,000 feet; a claim away from a creek is 500 by 1,000 feet (archived Yukon Placer Mining Act, Justice Laws). Yukon’s open data description of the claim layer still gives 500 feet as the regular length (Placer claims dataset, Government of Yukon).

A maximum-size creek claim is 1,000,000 square feet, about 23 acres (9.3 hectares). Multiply by 337 and you get an upper bound of roughly 7,700 acres (3,100 hectares). Real claims are often smaller, overlap creeks that are narrower than the maximum, or are bench claims at half that size, so the true figure is lower, and it is not the same thing as land owned. The calculator below lets you change the number of claims and the claim size.

How much gold comes from Beets’s ground? Reported totals by season

The Gold Rush article on Wikipedia keeps a table of the ounces each crew reports on screen. These are television figures for the mining season filmed, not audited production, and the first Beets season (5) is shown only as unknown. They still give a clear picture. Beets’s crew reported 737 ounces in season 6, 2,176 in season 7, 3,659 in season 8, about 4,400 in season 9, 2,259 in season 10, 3,030 in season 11, 4,621 in season 12, 5,295 in season 13, 3,054 in season 14, 5,777 in season 15 and 11,231 in season 16 (Wikipedia, Gold Rush totals table). The season 16 total is nearly double the previous high of 5,777 ounces in season 15.

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Season 16 on-screen gold by crew

Troy ounces reported on Gold Rush

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Gold reported by the Beets crew on screen, by season

Troy ounces per season of Gold Rush (television totals, not audited production)

Season 16 also shows how the crews compare: Beets 11,231 ounces, Parker Schnabel 10,596, Rick Ness 1,812 and Kevin Beets 1,591 (same table). Season 17 began on 2 October 2026 with the same four crews plus a new miner, so the table will change.

A troy ounce is 31.1035 grams. At the Kitco spot quote of US$4,015.10 per troy ounce at 8:01 a.m. Eastern on 26 October 2026 (Kitco), 11,231 ounces would be worth roughly US$45 million before costs, royalties, taxes and the share paid to crew. Real revenue depends on the price on the day each batch is sold, so this is only an illustration.

Why the Klondike still pays: gravel, dredges and break-even

Alluvial gold production from the Klondike creeks and gravels within the area of Klondike Gold Corp’s claims is put at about 20 million ounces since 1896, according to a Yukon Geological Survey calculation quoted by Klondike Gold Corp. Dawson itself grew from about 500 people in 1896 to roughly 17,000 by the summer of 1898 (Wikipedia, Klondike Gold Rush). Hand miners took the richest creek gravel first. Dredging followed from 1899, and Dredge No. 4, built in 1912, was the largest wooden-hulled bucket-line dredge in North America; it worked the Klondike Valley and then Bonanza Creek until 1959 (Parks Canada). Beets stands out because he uses bucket-line dredging, a method most operators abandoned decades ago, while most modern placer miners rely on excavators and wash plants (Canadian Mining & Energy).

Why work old ground at all? Because the economics changed. The Yukon Geological Survey’s Sydney van Loon told CBC that miners once needed about one ounce per 100 yards of sluice ground to break even, while with today’s prices half an ounce per 100 loose cubic yards is now doable; miner Tim Osler added that people are going after ground that may be 150 yards per ounce and still make money (CBC News, 9 September 2025). Reported Yukon placer production was nearly 99,000 crude ounces in 2024, worth about C$284 million, the highest value on record since 1886, and revenue rose to more than C$449 million in 2025 (CBC News, 10 February 2026). Crude ounces means unrefined gold that still contains some silver and other metals.

Yukon’s placer royalty has been 37.5 cents per ounce of gold since 1906 and applies only to gold leaving the territory, a rate the territory’s mines minister has said needs updating (same CBC article). Check the current rules before you model a project; they may change.

The calculator below turns that break-even rule into a value check for your own block of ground. Enter the gravel volume, the grade in ounces per 100 loose cubic yards, recovery, your price and your cost per yard. All prices are examples; use today’s price.

How to read a Yukon placer claim map

If you want to check who holds a creek, not rely on a TV episode, the official route is short:

1. Open the Government of Yukon placer claims layer, distributed through GeoYukon, which lists claims as polygons you can load in GIS software (Placer claims, Open Government Portal).
2. Zoom to the creek, such as Hunker Creek, and note the claim numbers, the creek’s baseline direction and the claim shapes. Long narrow rectangles along a stream are creek claims; blocks beside the stream are bench claims.
3. Confirm the claim’s status with the Mining Recorder’s office for the Dawson district before you rely on a map layer.
4. Check water licences and land-use constraints separately. A claim gives mining rights only; access, water and surface use are separate permissions, and much of the Klondike lies in the traditional territory of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation (CBC News).
5. Do not stake from a map. Claims are staked on the ground with posts, then recorded.

For the broader picture of how Canadian claim systems differ by province and territory, see our guide to mineral claims in Canada by district, the page on Yukon gold mining claims and placer records, and the Yukon placer mining and Eagle gold mine article. If you are weighing a purchase, our listing-style page on Yukon gold mining properties for sale shows what such offers contain, and our Canada gold deposits by province page puts the Klondike next to other Canadian camps.

▶ Why good ground can still be unmineable when land access blocks it. · 2:05

Water, reclamation and what operators must plan

Placer sites share the same set of obligations. The gravel is washed with water, so sediment ponds must settle fines before water returns to the creek; the ground must be recontoured afterwards; and operators work inside seasonal windows set by their licences. Beets moved off the Eureka Creek ground when water leases expired, which shows how a single permit can change a mine plan (Wikipedia, season 10 summary). For your own project, list the water licence, the claim status, access agreements and the First Nation consultation before you price the gravel.

Screening ground from space before you go there

Satellites cannot see placer gold. They can map the ground around it: stream channels, terraces, disturbed ground, vegetation and iron-stained or altered rock that suggest where a source or a paystreak may lie. Farmonaut produces satellite mineral-screening reports from a KML, KMZ or polygon of your licence area, typically in 5 to 20 business days, as a step before ground work; they are exploration targets, not a resource estimate. If you hold ground in a creek system like this one, you can map your mining site, read about satellite-based mineral detection, request a quote through the mining query form or contact us.

▶ How satellites map the rock and terrain around gold, not the gold itself. · 4:25

Frequently asked questions

Where does Tony Beets mine?

He mines in the Klondike near Dawson City, Yukon. His current main site on the show is Paradise Hill on Hunker Creek; earlier seasons were centred on Eureka Creek. His company is Tamarack Inc.

Where is Tony Beets’s mine located on a map?

Paradise Hill is at about 63.983 N, 139.066 W, roughly 20 km south-east of Dawson City in a straight line. Eureka Creek is about 57 km south-south-east, at about 63.627 N, 138.820 W.

Where is Tony Beets’s Paradise Hill?

On the left limit of Hunker Creek between Hester Creek and Last Chance Creek, in the Klondike goldfield.

How many acres does Tony Beets own?

No public source gives an acreage. About 337 placer claims are reported for his company, which at the maximum creek-claim size would be at most roughly 7,700 acres, but claims are mining rights, not land ownership.

Does Tony Beets own Scribner Creek?

The Gold Rush location list describes Scribner Creek as leased from Tamarack, Inc., the Beets company, and Parker Schnabel’s crew mined it from season 4.

Where does Tony Beets live in winter?

We do not cover where anyone lives. Public sources describe only where he works: the Dawson City area of the Klondike.

Where is Tony Beets from?

He was born in the Netherlands and emigrated to Canada in 1980, per Canadian Mining & Energy.

Is Tony Beets’s mine open to visitors?

No. Working placer claims are private and hazardous. Visitors to Dawson City can tour public historic sites such as Dredge No. 4 on Bonanza Creek, managed by Parks Canada, which is not a Beets machine.

Where is Gold Rush filmed?

Mainly in the Klondike near Dawson City, Yukon, with earlier seasons in Alaska, Guyana, Oregon and Colorado (Wikipedia, Gold Rush).

How can I find out who owns a claim near Dawson?

Use the Government of Yukon placer claims layer, then confirm the status with the Dawson Mining Recorder.

Can a satellite find placer gold?

No. It can map channels, terraces and altered rock that guide where to sample, and ground sampling is still needed.