Tanjung Tualang Tin Dredge No. 5
The TT5 is the last remaining tin dredge in Malaysia. They had 9 tin dredges back in the tin mining days and this was No. 5.
Perak was the wealthiest state in Malaya from 1848. Ipoh was known as the City of Millionaires!
Maze garden
Calamansi ice cream to the rescue for a super hot day
All ready for the Dredge Tour
Our tour group
1913 ~ the first tin dredge was introduced in Batu Gajah
TT5 was the 5th tin dredge, weighed 4500 tons. Manufactured in Britain, shipped to Malaya, took 18 months to assemble.
TT5 ceased operations in 1982 when the price of tin declined.
The BELL in the dredge, used to deliver and receive messages in the dredge
This is a 10 foot deep pontoon that contains air pressure to allow this dredge to float.
TT5 has 14 pontoons.
See the BUCKETS LADDER!
Look below...
These buckets at the front end scooped up loads of tin bearing soil, then tin gets extracted and waste material get spewed out at the read end.
There are 117 buckets connected in a chain in the dredge.
Captain's room
Pantry area at the top level
Staff Lockers
3 shifts per day, 20 people in a shift
Extracted tin was kept in these drums
Rear end of dredge, for spewing out waste materials after tin is extracted from soil
Toilet!!!
Boat used to transport tin to smelting plants
Ore Buckets
