LIGHTNING CREEK LA FONTAINE Past Producer, Placer Gold $15,000 Just reduced to $4,500!!

“Turning from Cassiar to the old established mining region of Cariboo, it is necessary to give the first place to Lightning Creek, which has continued throughout the year to give rich yields of gold from many claims. The wealth taken from this creek has been so great that it was considered that a description of its discovery and a map of the various claims would be highly interesting. Captain Evans was therefore employed to prepare a map, accompanied by an account of the creek, which is as follows: Lightning Creek. Early in 1861, Bill Cunningham, Jack Hume and Jim Bell, three gold hunters, started southward over the mountains from Jack’ of Clubs Creek on a prospecting tour. They found the trip exceedingly rough and laborious, especially in descending the steep banks of the creek they came to, the former called out to his companions “Boys this is Lightning,” it being a favourite expression with him in meeting anything difficult to overcome. This incident has been the origin of the name by which this creek has been known ever since. They returned unsuccessful. In July of the same year, Ned Campbell found gold in paying quantities a few hundred yards above the mining town of Van Winkle, in the second canyon. It was estimated that no less than $200,000 (at 1861 gold prices of approx. $18.93/oz) was taken out of Campbell’s “discovery” and the adjoining Whitehall Claim. This discovery brought hundreds of miners to the creek and tributaries” (Minister of Mines, Annual Report 1874). 58.31 Hectares / 144.08 acres. The property is located 9km southwest of Wells, BC and about 9km east, and equidistant to Cottonwood with 2-wheel drive access via Highway 26 (Barkerville highway) at the town of Stanley. This historical mining site was also known as the Eleven of England. Minfile 093H081 Past Production has been carried out by former operators. ARIS reports  16315 and 16512 Placer gold deposits of the Quesnel Highland region, including the former rich producers of the Barkerville camp, have accounted for a large proportion of British Columbia's alluvial gold production. With the exception of a few producers in the Wingdam area, which are underlain by Upper Triassic sediments correlative with the Nicola Group, almost all the deposits are underlain by the Upper Proterozoic to Lower Paleozoic Snowshoe Group. These rocks have been metamorph- osed to greenschist facies and are predominantly metasedimentary. Placer gold deposits in the region are generally found in relatively young Pleistocene gravels. The morphology and mineral associations of the gold suggests that it was derived locally, the most obvious sources are the numerous auriferous veins in the Downey succession of the Snowshoe Group. The La Fontaine placer occurs in a gravel, silt and clay-filled former channel of Lightning Creek. Auriferous gravels in this channel occur immediately above bedrock which in this area consists of rocks belonging to the Snowshoe Group. The Boulder Creek Past Gold Producer, Minfile 093H094 is 1050m northwest; Davis Creek, Past Gold Producer, Minfile 093H062 is 1130m west; Anderson Creek, Past Gold Producer, Minfile 093H096 is 600m south;  Jawbone Creek, Past Gold Producer, Minfile 093H095 is 850m North. The Dominion Showing is 200m south 093H055. The La Fontaine claim area and many of the nearby and adjacent properties were developed through both open pit and underground methods, the latter of which were largely constructed of vertical shafts and horizontal drifts upheld by local timber. Potential small scale placer mining with available water sources nearby. A workable piece of history. Latitude 53º3'7.3" Longitude 121º44'55.8"

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