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Gold/Mining/Energy : Gold and Silver Juniors, Mid-tiers and Producers
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To: koan who wrote (13199)6/12/2006 5:18:19 PM
From: E. Charters  Read Replies (1) of 78428
 
There are not many mosquitoes in the Yukon. It is not that swampy. Same in other rainforest areas of BC. Lots of rain, lots of forest, few bugs. Also the terrain is rather gentle. Not a lot of big country. Not the like the BC coast or the Kootenays. I got the impression you could walk around there in penny loafers and shorts. Winters aren't much more severe than Cockroach Ontario. All those endurace horror stories of the Klondike were primarily due to the fact that most of the 98'res were city boys from Seattle, ill prepared for backwoods camping let alone the logistics of dragging 2 tons of equipment to the goldfields over a horse trail where 60,000 people had trod that spring.

The difference of the Yukon was it was more like hard rock riches than placer gold values. When you got a good claim the values were about 25 cents per pan. Considering we are dealing with 16 dollar gold per ounce and there are anywhere between 150 to 300 pans per yard, we were into some rich ground occasional. Today that would be ten dollars gold per pan. And that was the low grade. 50 cents gold per pan was not uncommon. If a guy made a strike, he could show it to a buddy 20 feet away and it was obvious. At a mere 4 or 5 dollars a pan they were called damned pups.
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