To: philv who wrote (172884 ) 8/9/2009 9:38:27 PM From: E. Charters Read Replies (1) | Respond to I travelled to BC and talked to the people who operated the Granduc in 1980. They were getting out of copper and wanted into gold. I was supposed to do some prospecting for them, and predicted to them that they would find (an) Eskay Creek Mine by studying some maps of that region. (Eskay Creek had ancient gold placers on it, and my theory was the sulfide veins in the hills were the source of that gold and could be high grade.) I told them I would look upstream of the placers and seek out the sulfide veins as putative sources of the stream gold, which I believed were point or vein sourced. They were skeptical of that theory, or at least that was what they told me, so did not retain my services, but it was conveyed privately by the honcho, Charlie Aird to others, and Cominco and Pezim took up the cause and idea finding several mines there. Two years later what I am doing? Working for Selco panning rivers looking upstream for point sources of placers. The mistake in that program was the data we found was interpreted by a geologist with a mike, so field follow up was subject to his prejudice and was not immediate. You lose the impetus and feel for the land. We field workers were just used as grunts and not very efficiently at that. He did not take my suggestion about looking at two potential sources that I thought would lead somewhere. One became a smallish gold mine by other's development where they found the same indicators in parallel, the other, a rich gold vein to the eye, was found later by myself upslope, but is still there fallow, unfound by commercial interests, because of property ownership problems which stopped me and lack of knowledge which stopped others.
