Our Response to Information Update 38 |
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If you think hand mining (digging test holes and panning) needs to be 30 feet from the high water like machines are already then you need to read some history. This is form the Holland report.
Bedrock is almost continuously exposed for about 5,500 feet through the canyon on French Snowshoe Creek. In the canyon there is very little evidence of old placer diggings, other than those of Pat McGovern* on a bedrock bench 10 to 20 feet above the creek level and about 600 feet upstream from the foot of the canyon.
Pat McGovern pulled about 7000 ounces out of a small bench
Let that sink in. Cause if you let this 10 meter (30 feet) set back happen for hand mining, it is going to make it impossible to do anything. That entire canyon is just one area.
Update 38 cannot be allowed to come into effect
Bedrock is almost continuously exposed for about 5,500 feet through the canyon on French Snowshoe Creek. In the canyon there is very little evidence of old placer diggings, other than those of Pat McGovern* on a bedrock bench 10 to 20 feet above the creek level and about 600 feet upstream from the foot of the canyon.
Pat McGovern pulled about 7000 ounces out of a small bench
Let that sink in. Cause if you let this 10 meter (30 feet) set back happen for hand mining, it is going to make it impossible to do anything. That entire canyon is just one area.
Update 38 cannot be allowed to come into effect
