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Doosan on "Yukon Gold"

Spring 2015

Ken Foy and Guillaume Brodeur operated the new Doosan DX225LC crawler excavator with bucket and clamp on the television show “Yukon Gold” on History Canada. The show follows four placer gold miners in the Yukon as they race against time and the elements to pull as much gold out of the ground as possible. One of these camps (known as Ken and Guillaume) has struggled for the past two years in a very remote area of the Yukon, approximately 30 minutes from the Alaskan border. Not only were they in the middle of nowhere, but they also were constantly facing breakdowns with their old equipment.

The latest season has Ken and Guillaume mining in a new, even more remote location. But as Ken says in the first episode, they are going to start with “a shiny new piece of equipment” (the Doosan excavator). Unlike their past equipment and some of the equipment at the other mining camps, Ken and Guillaume’s new Doosan excavator is problem-free. They use it to clear a snow-covered road at the beginning of the season after their old dozer proves ineffective. They continue to use it from one mine to the next, digging up pay dirt. They only have good things to say about the Doosan ... it is the one thing they can rely on.

Doosan of Whitehorse, the local Doosan heavy equipment dealer, provided the DX225LC excavator for use on the show.