83940 104P 089 Liard SNOWY CREEK PLACER 104P022 104P05E Past Producer 59° 15' 59'' 129° 38' 36'' 59.266389 -129.643333 9 6569714 463419 Gold Omineca Slide Mountain, Overlap Assemblage C01 : Surficial placers, C02 : Buried-channel placers The Snowy Creek Placer occurrence is located along Snowy Creek (a northern tributary of McDame Creek), about 95 kilometres north of the community of Dease Lake. The area is underlain by quartzite, argillite, greenstone, and limestone of the Slide Mountain Complex (Triassic to Permian). Numerous gold-quartz veins are reported in the vicinity in the metavolcanics (Snowy Creek, 104P 014 and Bozo, 104P 076 on Snowy Creek). The mouth of the creek was the most productive, as well as a high bench containing old channel deposits. 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. EMPR BULL 28, pp. 57,60; 83 EMPR AR 1875-604; 1876-410,412,414; 1877-400; 1879(table); 1882(table); 1884-1889 (in tables); 1889-278; 1899-610; *1931-61 EMPR OF 1988-32; 1989-9; 1996-11 EMPR FIELDWORK 1980, pp. 55-62; 1981, pp. 156-161; 1987, pp. 245-248 EMPR PF (Wilms, R.G. (1955): The Commercial Outlook of the McDame Creek Watershed,(1978): General Report on Placer Gold, Gold Quartz and Base Metal Mining in Northern British Columbia, Canada, (1980): Report, In Part, (1981): Report on 1000 Million Cubic Yards of Placer Gold-Bearing Gravels in the McDame Valley, Northern British Columbia) EMPR EXPL 1989-229-236 EMPR MP MAP 1992-13 GSC MEM 194, p. 13; 319, p. 112 GSC MAP 318A; 1110A GSC OF 2779 EMPR PFD 20189, 20350, 887789, 674351