The WINGDAM CREEK placer occurrence is located south of Lightning Creek and Highway 26, about 28 kilometres west of Wells and 34 kilometres east of Quesnel.

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 metamorphosed 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 Wingdam Creek area has produced a considerable amount of placer gold, however, only a small amount of production is recorded from this deposit. The area is underlain by rocks of both the Quesnellia and Barkerville Terranes.

"Data from the Cariboo mining district indicate that supergene leaching of gold dispersed within massive sulphides by Tertiary deep weathering followed by Cenozoic erosion is the most likely explanation for the occurrence of coarse gold nuggets in Quaternary sediments" (Exploration in British Columbia 1989, page 147).

In 1977, Tanacana Mnes conducted a seismic survey on placer leases held on Wingdam Creek. Tanacana also conducted exploration on its Wingdam mineral claims from 1979 to 1984. Work included drilling, soil surveys and airborne ground geophysical surveys.

In 1984, Placer Development held placer leases along Wingdam Creek. They determined that the source of gold in Wingdam Creek is an old elevated channel of Lightning Creek.

Since acquiring control of CVG Mining Ltd. and the Wingdam project in late 2013, Omineca Mining and Metals has focused on developing a viable mine plan to bring the Wingdam project into production. This work has built upon the successful test bulk sample using freeze technology, completed by CVG in 2012. Omineca's Wingdam project area includes Wingdam Creek occurrence as well as Wingdam (Minfile 093H 012), Rise (Minfile 093H 153) and Free Lance (Minfile 093H 154) along Lightning Creek.

In 2014, airborne LiDAR and orthophoto surveys were completed to resolve accuracy of topographic profiles on the Wingdam property. As well, several geophysical surveys to model buried channel profiles were instigated from 2015 through 2022. In 2020, Omineca commenced programs of exploration across their placer and mineral tenures, including geological mapping and prospecting, silt, soil and rock sampling and diamond drilling. Anomalies in several areas were outlined and prospective quartz veining was encountered in multiple drill holes and in outcrop, particularly in the Ramos Mtn and Wingdam Lake areas.

See MINFILE Wingdam (093H 012), approximately 1 kilometre to the northeast of the Wingdam Creek occurrence for a more detailed reporting of the history and geology of the area.