Ole Sigurd Lunde (1909 – 1993)

Ole Lunde was born in Norway.¹⁾ He was bar mining on the Stewart River in the 1930s.²⁾ In 1940, he was attracted to Dublin Gulch by the growing success of Fred Taylor and Ed Barker. The price of tungsten, a metal hardener, increased during the Second World War. In 1942, a government road was completed to Haggart Creek and Dublin Gulch, an area rich in scheelite, an important tungsten ore. Hugo Seaholm, Ole Lunde, and Bob Swanson produced more than two tons of sheelite concentrate from Dublin Gulch. Fred Taylor went to serve in the army for four years and leased his property to Ole Lunde and another miner.³⁾ Lunde was partners with Bob Swanson.⁴⁾

There was no one mining on Dublin Gulch in 1949 as the price of gold was stagnant and the price of goods were rising.⁵⁾ In the mid-1960s and into the 1980s, Ole Lunde mined for gold on Gold Bottom Creek, a tributary of Hunker Creek, near Dawson.⁶⁾