COTTONWOOD RIVER BARKERVILLE Placer Gold Claim for Sale $8,000
Approx. 82 Acres workable (95.989 acres total) adjacent to legacy placer claim. From Minfile 093G025 and 093G022 and Nearby or relevant ARIS Reports 16114, 17278. There are several placer gold deposits along the Cottonwood River. The deposits are located in benches ranging in height from about a metre to several metres above the present course of the river. The gold is derived from the concentration of pre-existing glacial or pre-glacial deposits, some may have been of Miocene age. The ultimate source of the gold may have been the auriferous veins of the Barkerville terrane from which the Cottonwood River drains. The pre-Tertiary geology of this area consists of mafic volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Nicola Group. The Cottonwood workings produced alluvial platinum and gold. Latitude 53°4'44.8" Longitude 122°12'16.3"
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