In the late 1980s, it was moved to Nome, Alaska, US, to mine seafloor placer gold deposits in the Bering Sea off the coast.
Being unprofitable at gold mining in Nome, it was sold for scrap in 1990.
Prior commercial-scale land-side bucket dredges had all already shutdown by the time Bima started up.
It was launched in 1979, to dredge tin ore in the seas off Indonesia.
At the time it was owned by Western Gold Exploration and Mining Co. of Golden, Colorado, USA; a subsidiary of Inspiration Resources Corp. of New York State, USA.