THE LAST WORD ON PLACER GOLD IN BRIT COLUMBIA - old and new

[Steppegold]

Hi folks - there is A LOT written in books, papers and reports on placer gold in BRITISH COLUMBIA.
Often these can be of priceless value to the recreational miner, geologist, mining company or whatever.
So this thread is where I'll post my list for BC.
Feel free to add to the thread, but please stick to BC or it'll be a big puddin'y mess!

It's going to to be in alphabetical order, A-Z.
Hopefully I can,or Larry can, update it as it will always be out of date.

GOOD PROGRESS - thanks to Geo Jim of Alaska, another dozen articles have been added today 6th Feb 2007 - thanks Jim!

cheers - Steppe

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A - BRITISH COLUMBIA
Sorry folks - can you supply a ref for a paper, book or article on BC placer gold with author name starting with A?

B - BRITISH COLUMBIA
Barkov, A.Y.; M.E. Fleet, G.T. Nixon and V.M. Levson (2005). Platinum-group minerals from five placer deposits in British Columbia, Canada. The CANADIAN MINERALOGIST,  volume 43, pages 1687-1710.
Basque, Garnet (1983). Methods of placer mining.  Langley, B.C.:Mr. Paperback, 127 pages.
The book is in 3 sections: gold rushes of the world (including British Columbia, Alaska, and the Yukon); placer creeks of British Columbia; and methods of placer mining. 
Best, Melvyn E.; Victor Matthew Levson; and Doug McConnell (2004). Sand and Gravel Mapping in Northeast British Columbia using Airborne Electromagnetic Surveying Methods. Manuscript, 6 pages.
download in ACROBAT from: www.fugroairborne.com.au
Modern account of the use of airborne electromagnetic (EM) methods, including a multi-frequency helicopter EM and magnetic survey by Fulgro Airborne Surveys.

C - BRITISH COLUMBIA
Clague, John Joseph (1987). A Placer Gold Exploration Target in the Cariboo District, British Columbia, In: Current Research, Part A, Geological Survey of Canada Paper #87-1A, pages 177-180.
Clague, John Joseph (1989). Placer Gold in the Cariboo District, British Columbia, In: Current Research, Part E: Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 89-1E, pages 243-250.
Clague, John Joseph (1991). Quaternary Stratigraphy and History of Quenel and Cariboo river valleys, British Columbia: Implication for Placer Gold Exploration, In: Current Research, Part A, Geological Survey of Canada Paper #91-1A, pages 1-5.

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D - BRITISH COLUMBIA
Day, S.; and K. Fletcher (1986). Particle Size and Abundance of Gold in Selected Stream Sediments, Southern British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, volume 26, pages 203-214.
Day, S.; and K. Fletcher (1989). Effects of Valley and Local Channel Morphology on the Distribution of Gold in Stream Sediments from Harris Creek, British Columbia, Canada: Jour. Geochem. Explor., volume 32, pages 1-16.
Day, S. and K. Fletcher (1991). Concentration of Magnetite and Gold at Bar and Reach Scales in a Gravel-Bed Stream, British Columbia, Canada: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, volume 61, pages 871-882.


E - BRITISH COLUMBIA
Evenchick, C.A., Friday, S.J. and Monger, J.W.H. (1986): Potential Hosts to Platinum Group Element Concentrations in the Canadian Cordillera, Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 1433, map.
Eyles, N.; and S.P. Kocsis (1988). Gold Placers in Pleistocene Glacial Deposits; Barkerville, British Columbia. Bulletin of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum, volume 81, pages 377-385.
Eyles, N.; and S.P. Kocsis (1989). Sedimentological Controls on Gold in Late Pleistocene Glacial Deposits; Cariboo Mining District, British Columbia, Canada. Sedimentary Geology, volume 65, pages 45-68.
Eyles, N.; and S.P. Kocsis (1989). Sedimentological Controls on Gold Distribution in Pleistocene Placer Deposits of the Cariboo Mining District, British Columbia. British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources. Geological Fieldwork 1988, Paper 1989-1, pages 377-385.
Eyles, N. (1994). Characteristics and origin of coarse gold in Late Pleistocene sediments of the Cariboo placer mining district, British Columbia, Canada. Sedimentary Geology, volume 95, pages 69-95. 
The morphology (size, roundness, sphericity) of 1,636 gold grains (0.25 to 17mm) from 19 placer mines was studied. The author claims in-situ growth of coarse, angular grains is indicated by "composite" grain structure of aggregates of gold particles welded by high-grade filamentous gold, perhaps reliant on organic complexing agents produced below a dense forest cover. Rounded grains commonly show a crystalline structure perhaps from cold hammering of gold during transport. Gold grains may undergo cycles of coarsening, rounding, digenesis and breakup in response to repeated recycling through Pleistocene sedimentary environments.

F - BRITISH COLUMBIA
Ford, G. (1997). Guidelines for Assessing the Design, Size, and Operation of Sedimentation Ponds Used in Mining. Province of British Columbia, Department of Environment Land and Parks. Victoria. 17 pages.
download in ACROBAT from: www.bcrock.com/reports/Design_SedimentPonds.pdf

G - BRITISH COLUMBIA
Nothing for G, can U Gee it up?

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H - BRITISH COLUMBIA
Hartman, Gordon F.; and Michael Miles (1995). Evaluation of Fish Habitat Projects in British Columbia and Recommendations on the Development of Guidelines for Future Work. Report prepared for Fisheries Branch, British Columbia Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks.
Hartman, Gordon F.; and Michael Miles (2001). Assessment of Techniques for Rainbow Trout Transplanting and Habitat Management in British Columbia. Can. Manuscript Rept. of Fish. Aquatic Sc. #2562. 135 pages.
download in ACROBAT from:
www.heb.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/english/publications/PDF/rainbow/rainbow.htm
Holland, Stuart, S. (1942).Dragline Dredging Methods. British Columbia Department of Mines, Bulletin #16. 36 pages.
download in ACROBAT from:
www.em.gov.bc.ca/Mining/Geolsurv/Publications/catalog/cat_bull-post1940.htm
Holland, Stuart, S. (1942). Hydraulic Mining Methods. British Columbia Department of Mines, Bulletin #15. This Bulletin is in large part a reprint from United States Bureau of Mines Information Circular #6787. 76 pages.
It is a tremendous source of historical information on hydraulic mining.
download in ACROBAT from:
www.em.gov.bc.ca/Mining/Geolsurv/Publications/catalog/cat_bull-post1940.htm
Henrick, Michael P. (1986). Moyie River Exploration Project - Cranbrook, British Columbia. Forte Steele Mining District. N.T.S. 82/F/SE. Placer Leases #1902, 1080, 1775, 1773. Queenstake Resources Ltd; Placer Leases #1080 and 1081 Hamilton Klinkhammer Option. British Columbia, Geological Branch Assessment Report. 15 pages + 6 pages of appendices.
Good example of test washing a placer. Also vivid account of the problem of settling very flat gold.
download in ACROBAT from:
http://www.em.gov.bc.ca/DL/ARISReports/15766.pdf

I - BRITISH COLUMBIA
There must be an author whose name begins with IIIIIIIIIIIII?? Any IIIIIdeas welcome!

J - BRITISH COLUMBIA
Johnston, N.T.; and G.D. Moore (1995). Guidelines for Planning Watershed Restoration Projects. Watershed Restoration Technical Circular #1. Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks and Ministry of Forests, British Columbia, 50 pages
Johnston, W.A.; and W.L. Uglow (1926). Placer and Vein Gold Deposits of Barkerville, Cariboo District, British Columbia; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir #149, 246 pages.

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K - BRITISH COLUMBIA
Knight, J B. (1985). A Microprobe Study of Placer Gold and Its Origin in the Lower Fraser River Basin, British Columbia; MSc thesis: University Of British Columbia, 197 pages.

L - BRITISH COLUMBIA
La Casse, Leonard J.; and James Roebuck (1980). Gold Panning Guide for Alberta and British Columbia: a handbook for goldseekers and prospectors with details on sluice box construction and gold recovery methods / by Leonard J. Edmonton, Alta.: Hallamshire Publishers, 36 pages.
Lefebure, David V. (2000). Potential for Palladium and Platinum Deposits in British Columbia. British Columbia Geological Survey, GeoFile #2000-5, 11 pages.
download in ACROBAT from: www.em.gov.bc.ca/mining/geolsurv/Publications/GeoFiles/Gf2000-5/GF2000-5.pdf
Levson, Victor Mathew (1991). Geologic Controls on Alluvial Gold Mining in the Cariboo District, British Columbia, Canada. In: Alluvial Mining. Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, London, pages 245- 267.
Levson, Victor Mathew (1991). The Bullion Mine; a large buried-valley gold placer. The Cariboo Miner, volume 2, number 5, pages 8-9.
Levson, Victor Mathew; Randy Clarkson; and M. Douma (1992). Evaluating buried placer deposits in the Cariboo Region of Central British Columbia (93A,B,G,H). British Columbia Geological Survey Branch, Geological Fieldwork 1992, Paper 1993-1, pages 463-473.
download in ACROBAT from: www.eb.gov.bc.ca
Detailed description of using gold radiotracers to test % gold recovery of reverse circulation (RC) drilling, also preliminary comments on field surveys using seismic reflection, shallow seismic refraction (including refraction hammer-seismic), ground penetrating radar (GPR) and geophysical borehole logging using Geonics EM-39 logging system.
Levson, Victor Mathew; and Timothy R. Giles (1993). Geology of Tertiary and Quaternary Gold-Bearing Placers in the Cariboo Region, British Columbia. B. C. Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, Bulletin 89, 202 pages.
Levson, Victor Mathew; and H. Blyth (1994). Applications of Quaternary Geology to the Study of Glacial Placer Deposits; A Case Study of the Otter Creek Paleoplacer, British Columbia. Quaternary International, volume 20, pages 93-105.
Levson, Victor Mathew; John Joseph Clague; and Robert J. Fulton (1995). Field trip guidebook: Quaternary geology and placer gold deposits of central B.C. 13-16th May 1995. Geological Association of Canada. 87 pages.
Levson, Victor Mathew; and Timothy R. Giles (1995). Buried-Channel Placers. in: D.V. Lefebure and G.E. Ray. Selected British Columbia Mineral Deposit Profiles, Volume 1 - Metallics and Coal, British Columbia Ministry of Energy of Employment and Investment, Open File #1995-20, pages 25-28.
read at:
www.em.gov.bc.ca/Mining/Geolsurv/MetallicMinerals/MineralDepositProfiles/Profiles/C02.htm
Levson, Victor Mathew; and H. Blyth (2001). Formation and preservation of a Tertiary to Pleistocene fluvial gold placer in northwest British Columbia. Quaternary International, August 2001.
Levson, V.M.; and S.R. Morison (in press): Geology of Placer Deposits in Glaciated Environments; in Glacial Environments - Processes, Sediments and Landforms, Menzies, J., Editor, Pergamon Press, Oxford, U.K., 44 pages.
Levson, Victor M.; David J. Mate and Travis Ferbey (2002). Platinum-Group-Element (PGE) Placer Deposits in British Columbia: Characterization and Implications for PGE Potential. Geological Fieldwork 2001, Paper #2002-1 page 303-312.
download in ACROBAT from: www.em.gov.bc.ca/DL/GSBPubs/GeoFldWk/2001/21-VL-p303-312.pdf

M - BRITISH COLUMBIA
Milos, Kevin (2002). Watershed Analysis for the Purpose of Finding Placer Gold Bearing Streams on the South-West Coast of Vancouver Island. Geog432 Project.
read at: www.gis.unbc.ca/courses/geog432/projects/2002/milok000/
McTaggart, K.C.; and John Knight (1993). Geochemistry of lode and placer gold of the Cariboo District, B.C. British Columbia, Geological Survey Branch Open file. ISSN0835-3530. ISBN 0772619751

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N - BRITISH COLUMBIA
Nelson, J.; J. Knight; K. McTaggart and H. Blyth (1989). Widespread Glacial Dispersal of Placer Gold from the Erickson Camp, Cassiar Mountains, British Columbia. Exploration in British Columbia, British Columbia Ministry of Energy #16, pages 229-236.
Nixon, G.T.; L.J. Cabri, and J.H.G. Laflamme (1990). Platinum-group Element Mineralization in Lode and Placer Deposits associated with the Tulameen Alaskan-type Complex, British Columbia; Canadian Mineralogist, volume 28, pages 503-535.
Nixon, G.T. and Hammack, J.L. (1991). Metallogeny of Ultramafic-mafic Rocks in British Columbia with Emphasis on the Platinum-group Elements; in Ore Deposits, Tectonic and Metallogeny in the Canadian Cordillera, British Columbia, British Columbia Ministry of Energy and Mines, Paper 1991-4, pages 125-161.
Nixon, G.T., Hammack, J.L., Ash, C.A., Cabri, L.J., Case, G., Connelly, J.N., Heaman, L.M., Laflamme, J.H.G., Nuttall, C., Paterson, W.P.E. and Wong, R.H. (1997) Geology and Platinum-Group Element Mineralization of Alaskan-type Ultramafic-Mafic Complexes in British Columbia, British Columbia Ministry of Energy and Mines, Bulletin 93, 141 pages.

O - BRITISH COLUMBIA
O-o, can U fill this gap?

P - BRITISH COLUMBIA
Nope P neither!

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Q - BRITISH COLUMBIA
Please add to the Q!

R - BRITISH COLUMBIA
Rosler, H.J. and Lange, H. (1972): Geochemical Tables; Elsevier Publishing Company, New York, 468 pages.
Rublee, V.J. (1986): Occurrence and Distribution of Platinum-group Elements in British Columbia; B.C. Ministry of Energy and Mines, Open File 1986-7, 94 pages.

S - BRITISH COLUMBIA
Samson, J. (1984). An overview of coastal and marine gold placer occurrences in Nova Scotia and British Columbia. Ottawa, Ontario: Canada Oil and Gas Lands Administration, ii+173 pages.
Slaney, P.A.; and D. Zaldokas (1997). Fish Habitat Rehabilitation Procedures. Watershed Restoration Technical Circular #9. Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks, British Columbia.

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T - BRITISH COLUMBIA
Anyone for T?

U - BRITISH COLUMBIA
Urlich, Cecil (1983). Report on Preliminary Evaluation of Mine Equipment and Process Technology Proposed for Precious Metal Recovery, Sombrio Point Placer Property. (November 1983). Reichem Urlich Geological Engineering, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Early use of compound water cyclones (CWC) in recovering fine placer gold.
Urlich, Cecil (1983). Report on Bulk Sample Concentration Testing, Particle Mineralogy Analysis, and Gold Recovery Chemistry Studies. (December 1983). Reichem Urlich Geological Engineering, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Early use of compound water cyclones (CWC) in recovering fine placer gold.
Urlich, Cecil (1984). Recovery of Fine Gold by Knelson Hydrostatic Cone and Compound Water Cyclone Technologies. 4th Annual RMS-ROSS Seminar on Placer Gold Mining, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Early use of compound water cyclones (CWC) in recovering fine placer gold.
Urlich, Cecil (1985). Compound Water Cyclones: Recovery of Micron Size Precious Metals from an Ancient Beach Deposit at Sombrio Point, Vancouver Island. 5th Annual RMS-ROSS Seminar on Placer Gold Mining, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Early use of compound water cyclones (CWC) in recovering fine placer gold.

V - BRITISH COLUMBIA
Vieira, Rickford (1997). The performance of the Knelson and Falcon centrifuges for fine gold concentration. Master of Engineering Report, University of British Columbia, July 1997.
This must be ESSENTIAL READING for anyone interested in centrifuges to recover fine gold. The author is now with WWF Guiana in South America.

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W - BRITISH COLUMBIA
Warren, H.V. (1979). Supergene Gold Crystals at Stirrup Lake, British Columbia. Western Miner, June, pages 9-14.   

X - BRITISH COLUMBIA
Hardly likely to be any author beginning with X, but mebbe!

Y - BRITISH COLUMBIA
Y no Y? 

Z - BRITISH COLUMBIA
zzzz - wake up please! 

Please add whatever papers, articles, reports you've read on BC placers.
Mebbe check through those you've got and not looked at for a while.
The better the list the better for all miners, and the better for the status of miners in BC!

cheers - Steppe
 

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Maps of BC placer gold area's.I hope this helps.

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