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Legacy placer claim 408447 123 Acres, 1000m per side frontage on the Similkameen River, some 21km S of the town of Princeton, BC and its confluence with the Tulameen River. The property is just east of Sunday Summit. Road access 7 km gravel road to directly to site. From Minfile 092HSE233 The lower part of the river, between Princeton and Hedley, flows in a broad valley flanked on either side by gravel terraces comprised of reworked glacial material. The upper part of the river runs through a wide valley between Princeton and Whipsaw Creek, containing deep gravels in most places. Placer deposits have been worked at intervals for some 48 km along the river. Most recorded production and exploration has occurred along a stretch extending upstream from Princeton for 14km and continuing downstream past Princeton for 8 km. Alluvial gravels worked along the river yielded black sands containing fine platinum, in addition to gold. The ratio of gold to platinum recovered from these gravels is 4:1m. Atkinson Dredging first mined a 1.6-km stretch, 1.5km south of Princeton, during 1947 and 48. Subsequent dredging was conducted on a section beginning 300m east of the confluence with the Tulameen River and continuing east for 5km, between 1948 and 1950. This operation recovered over 50kg gold, 6.2kg silver and 10.63kg platinum from 433,932 cubic metres in 1948 and 1949. Further to 1950 production has not been recorded. Total gold production between 1885 and 1950 is estimated 229.2kg. Recorded platinum and silver production is 14.9kg and 6.2kg respectively.
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