The Snowy Creek Placer occurrence is located along Snowy Creek (a northern tributary of McDame Creek), approximately 95 kilometres north of the community of Dease Lake.

The area is underlain by quartzite, argillite, greenstone, and limestone of the Triassic to Permian Slide Mountain Complex. Numerous gold-quartz veins are reported in the vicinity in the metavolcanics (see the Snowy Creek [MINFILE 104P 014] and Bozo [MINFILE 104P 076] occurrences on Snowy Creek).

The mouth of the creek was the most productive, as well as a high bench containing old channel deposits. Placer gold is also reported at an elevation of approximately 1300 metres in a small creek draining into Snowy Creek near its junction with McDame Creek.

Work History

Workings from 1874 to 1890 and from 1906 to 1910 produced in total 120 kilograms (4222 ounces) of gold. Snowy Creek was reported to be the richest placer in the Cassiar district.

In 1979, Erickson Gold Mining completed a 2.5 line-kilometre seismic survey on the section of McDame Creek immediately above and below its’ junction with Snowy Creek to identify the depth of overburden and possible placer deposits in the area.

In 2013 and 2014, Canada Rockies International Investment completed a 1.1 line-kilometre resistivity survey and an air photo interpretation program on the area to identify possible intact placer deposits.