The occurrence of crystalline aggregates of gold and authigenic gold in the form of octahedral crystals or concentrations with a typical spongiform structure on the surface of rounded gold grains and nuggets in alluvial placer deposits indicates postdepositional remobilization of gold in the placer itself (Youngson and Craw, 1993, Hough et al ...
The Tulameen River area hosts one of the few significant placer platinum occurrences in the world and has the rare combination of placer gold and platinum in the same deposits with ratios as high as 1:1 noted in the geological files.
This creek experienced a significant gold rush in 1885. The ghost town of Granite city is at the mouth of the creek, what's left of it anyway. Our GPS track is below. We took Highway 3 from Hope to Princeton then took the backroads through the Tulameen. The first stop was the Granite City ghost town, then up Granite Creek to my claims.
Granite Creek is a tributary to the Tulameen River. In the gold rush era of the late 1800s the Tulameen was still a remote and wild area. Like many of the best discoveries the Granite Creek gold was found by chance. In this case it was actually found by a cowboy named Johnny Chance.
The Similkameen River and Tulameen River, and many of their tributaries, are rich in platinum as well as gold. No claims for sale at this time. Golden Area. There are a number of small placer areas in the region surrounding the town of Golden, on the Trans-Canada Highway, about 55 km from the Alberta border (as the crow flies).
Placer gold and platinum production, primarily in the late 1800s and early 20. th. century, was performed in the Tulameen River, especially downstream of the present-day Britton Creek Group. Placer platinum-gold ratios were typically from 1:4 to 1:1. The dunite core of the TUC is considered to be the source of the majority of the estimated
Placer Gold Occurrences in Alberta Author: Alberta Geological Survey Subject: Placer Gold Occurrences in Alberta Keywords: Alberta, Placer Gold, Occurrences, Preglacial, Outwash, Bedrock Created Date: 9/5/2008 9:14:13 AM
in the Tulameen River area (Raicevic and Cabri, 1976), 244-858 parts per billion (ppb) in the Sudbury, Ontario, district of Canada (Chyi and Crocket, 1976), and 0.01-0.42 ppm in the Ural platinum belt (Fominykh and Znamenskiy, 1975; Volchenko and others, 1975). These magnetites were all associated with mafic or ultramafic
20,000 ounces of placer platinum that have been mined since the 1885 discovery of gold rich placer deposits on the Tulameen River and its tributaries. In late 1800s the Tulameen region was recognized as North America's premier platinum producer. Subsequent mineral exploration activities for Platinum Group Metals (PGM) identified the
known example in British Columbia of a placer derived from an Alaskan-type PGE complex is the PGE-bearing placers in the Tulameen area. These placers yielded 620 kg of platinum from 1889 to 1936 (Nixon et al. 1990). The Salmon River placers in southwestern Alaska are also de-rived from an Alaskan-type complex and produced 20 200
The Tulameen River area hosts one of the few significant combined placer gold & platinum occurrences in the world with ratios of the precious metals as high as 1:1 noted in the geological files. The BC mineral file estimates c rude gold production for the entire Tulameen River between 1885 and 1945 at 297,000 grams or approximately 9,500 ounces.
Mines Annual Report 1947, pages 198, 199). Farther below the canyon, across from the mouth of Otter Creek at Tulameen, river gravels are estimated to yield 0.45 gram of gold per cubic metre, with traces of platinum (Assessment Report 6508, page 16). Production of placer gold was first reported in 1877, and may have commenced as early as 1860.
This is the current location of the mineral and placer claims owned by Green River Gold Corp., which includes 15 linear km of placer claims along the Little Swift River. The experience gave me the opportunity to learn more about the bedrock geology in the western part of the Barkerville Terrane and its association with placer gold occurrences.
The Tulameen River area hosts one of the few significant placer platinum occurrences in the world and has the rare combination of placer gold and platinum in the same deposits with ratios as high as 1:1 noted in the geological files.
This claim was the one that we visited in this blog post: Autumn Prospecting on the Similkameen River. Most of this claim is on private property, we have been accessing it for years without issue though. Map location: 49.460292 N, -120.360620 W. Tenure Number: 1034665. Price: $1400 CAD. Claim Type: Placer Area: 20.99 Hectares (1 Cell)
OTHER PLATINUM LODE OCCURRENCES IN TH ETULAMEEN DISTRICT Platinum values of 4.29 grams per tonne (Kemp, 1902) were obtained from sheared granites along Siwash Creek, which enters the Tulameen River 4.8 kilometres upstream from Eagle Creek. An assay of 137 grams per tonne platinu m (O'Neill and Gunning, 1934) was returned
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Placer gold has been known to exist on this stretch of the river since the first discovery in 1856. In 1856 and the year or two following fully 5,000 miners worked the river bars, and the amount of gold extracted has been estimated to have run up into the millions.
Available. $ 8500.00. The Tulameen River - Gold Nuggets claim is located about 30 minutes west of Tulameen B.C. with good access via River road and good access via forestry roads from the Coquihalla highway. This claim is also a placer platinum producer in addition to gold.
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The Tulameen map area is noted for its long history of mineral exploration and production, which began with the placer mining of gold and platinum on the Tulameen River and various tributaries in the 1870s. The river was the leading producer of platinum in North America during the late 1800s.
documented for its gold occurrences and high-grade silver deposits. Early placer mining along the Tulameen River - Granite Creek areas, played a significant role in the discovery of this and other neighboring deposits, as placer miners then intrigued to search out the origins of the placer
Later in the season an extensive mid-river bar can also be accessed for panning. The Tulameen River area hosts one of the few significant placer platinum occurrences in the world and has a rare combination of placer gold and platinum in the same deposit with …
PLATINUM-GROUP-ELEMENTMINERALIZATION IN LODE AND PLACER DEPOSITS ASSOCIATED WITH THE TULAMEEN ALASKAN-TYPE COMPLEX, BRITISH COLUMBIA GRAHAM T. NIXON.Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, Geological Survey Branch, Parliament Buildings, Victoria, British Columbia V8V 1X4 LOUIS J. CABRI and J.H. GILLES LAFLAMME
The PGM assemblages of the Snegovaya River placer occurrences are comparable with those of the lode chromitites with a predominance of Ir-rich isoferroplatinum and secondary alloys, including ...
During the late 1800's the Tulameen District was the most important producer of platinum in North America. Platinum was recovered with the placer gold from the Tulameen River and her tributaries, including Granite, Cedar, Slate, Britton and Lawless Creeks. The platinum
TULAMEEN PROJECT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Tulameen Project is located about 175 km east of Vancouver. The Tulameen area is a placer Gold and Platinum mining camp that produced 40,000 ounces of Platinum and about 200,000 ounces of Gold during th laset 100 years. Platinum is carried in streams that originate in the Tulameen Ultramafic Complex.
Tulameen River, Similkameen Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada : A gold and PGM placer district associated with the Tulameen mafic-ultramafic complex. There are many individual localities in the area in addition to the currently included ones (Grasshopper ...
The placer gold in the Tulameen River was first discovered in the year 1877 but it was not actively mined to any large degree. The first active mining of gold in the creeks and the beaches was done in the year 1920 where platinum was produced followed by gold. The most mining of the gold was done in the lower and the upper sides of the river in ...
Platinum-group element mineralization in lode and placer deposits associated with the Tulameen Alaskan-type complex, British Columbia September 1990 The Canadian Mineralogist 28:503-535
