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Past Producing Placer Gold Mine

Cottonwood BC Gold Mine

Mine Details

Commodity:  Gold
Location:  British Columbia, Canada
Terms:  For Sale, Lease Purchase Option
Price:  SOLD

UPDATE: THIS PROJECT HAS SOLD

Summary:

Past producer (open pit placer mine)
Virgin dry channel with gold values starting at two feet depth
Geological similarities with high grade Alice Creek and Toop Nugget Mines, where "not uncommonly, 100 yards yields 30 to 40 ounces of gold". (Roed, 1984, p.4)
Best hand sample returned 1.0 g/m3 grade
Area: 150 ha

Location and Access:

The property is located approximately 27 kilometres East of Quesnel and 10 kilometres North of Cottonwood, in central British Columbia, Canada.
Tenures: 855405, 855406, 857181, 862445.

Description:

See summary

Geology:

Geological similarities with Alice Creek and Toop Nugget Mines

Black sand content in the samples is quite low, which is similar to what Roed (1995) described in his paper "Magnetite is rarely found in the sluice box. Numerous pans failed to recover any black sand of any type except for pyrite cubes. The lack of "heavies" and the comparative abundance of nuggets, is anomalous with respect to other placer deposits in the area." (p. 93)
The best gold values were observed in weakly cemented gravels which are not very common in the area. A paystreak in weakly cemented gravels was mentioned by Levson and Giles (1993) on page 65.
There's a layer of poorly sorted gravels with extremely high clay content that underlie gold-bearing gravels. Similar layer was mentioned by Levson and Giles (1993) on page 67: "The lowermost auriferous deposits were not observed but they reportedly are poorly sorted gravels containing substantial quantities of clay, probably deposited by mud flows (Roed, 1988). They stratigraphically underlie cemented, auriferous gravels".

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Home » Canada » British Columbia » Cottonwood BC Gold Mine

Past Producing Placer Gold Mine

Cottonwood BC Gold Mine

Mine Details

Commodity:  Gold
Location:  British Columbia, Canada
Terms:  For Sale, Lease Purchase Option
Price:  SOLD

UPDATE: THIS PROJECT HAS SOLD

Summary:

Past producer (open pit placer mine)
Virgin dry channel with gold values starting at two feet depth
Geological similarities with high grade Alice Creek and Toop Nugget Mines, where "not uncommonly, 100 yards yields 30 to 40 ounces of gold". (Roed, 1984, p.4)
Best hand sample returned 1.0 g/m3 grade
Area: 150 ha

Location and Access:

The property is located approximately 27 kilometres East of Quesnel and 10 kilometres North of Cottonwood, in central British Columbia, Canada.
Tenures: 855405, 855406, 857181, 862445.

Description:

See summary

Geology:

Geological similarities with Alice Creek and Toop Nugget Mines

Black sand content in the samples is quite low, which is similar to what Roed (1995) described in his paper "Magnetite is rarely found in the sluice box. Numerous pans failed to recover any black sand of any type except for pyrite cubes. The lack of "heavies" and the comparative abundance of nuggets, is anomalous with respect to other placer deposits in the area." (p. 93)
The best gold values were observed in weakly cemented gravels which are not very common in the area. A paystreak in weakly cemented gravels was mentioned by Levson and Giles (1993) on page 65.
There's a layer of poorly sorted gravels with extremely high clay content that underlie gold-bearing gravels. Similar layer was mentioned by Levson and Giles (1993) on page 67: "The lowermost auriferous deposits were not observed but they reportedly are poorly sorted gravels containing substantial quantities of clay, probably deposited by mud flows (Roed, 1988). They stratigraphically underlie cemented, auriferous gravels".

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