EOSC 118 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Placer Mining, Canadian Shield, Royal British Columbia Museum
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Learning objectives: describe the local distribution of gold in bc and the canadian shield, describe the differences between lode and placer gold. Compare this to all of canada"s gold production in. 2007 which totaled ~100 tonnes or ~3. 2 million troy ounces, and which came almost exclusively from hard rock mines devoted to extracting gold: consequently, even though placer mining still exists today in some parts of canada and the. World, its significance lies primarily in the history of mining for canada. The most significant canadian placer gold rushes of the 19th century included the: queen charlotte islands (1852, the fraser river (1858, the cariboo district (1860, klondike rush near what would become dawson city (1896). Many stories emerged from these rushes and since the migration of people in those days had significant impacts on the remote communities, abundant historical information can be found in nearly every bc.
