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To: Bill/WA who wrote (86435)	6/4/2002 8:23:57 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116779

keep off my claims varmint. Naaaah.. I poached samples on many a mining claim and never saw a soul in site. Wouldn't worry. It is legal to sample with a pan just about anywhere in BC. I think that a claim holder cannot even complain about it. But it is common courtesy to leave and not sample the gravel if they ask you to. I certainly would not dispute it for a second. Just smile and say you had no idea. That would generally be accurate with most people anyway. Since you cannot take any amount to worry a church mouse with a pan, few people will get ornery. Most know they cannot prevent it. But I would avoid setting up a suction dredge on the claims. Get a claim map from Victoria, Whitehorse or the local office and respect the boundaries. You can take as much as you want off my claims, as long as you forward me 10% by mail. I have staked most of the Yukon, and northern BC. If you see a post by the river, it's mine. Hard to find the posts actually, some are gone and many were fictional. But if it's on the map, it's there. There are placer claims and hardrock. They are different, although they are now mostly staked the same. The Placer used to be staked with two posts and dogleg post, calling for offsets. I don't know if this is done anymore. Most are mile by mile I expect,making it harder to find the posts and blazed lines. You can stake a placer claim in BC at least right over a hardrock claim. Find out the difference, and perhaps get a free miner's license. It is not necessary but might come in handy. BTW, north of Stewart is lousy with gold. Comes off the high sulphide base metal veins in the area. You could find some good gold up there if you know where to look. Regs in BC limit the yardage take to not worth it for real commercial enterprise. I don'tknow about the Iskut, and Stikine. Not my area. It could be good, as it is for other minerals. The Tulameen has platinum in paying quantities. It is extremely heavy and silvery white in the pan. Yukon rivers should have it too, near Alaska I would think. EC<:-}