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Lightning Creek at Wells

Gold ground Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

GoldGold

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: BLM Alaska (Public domain).

Why this spot

Second great creek of the Cariboo rush, deep-lead placers worked from the 1860s to the 1930s

Documented throughout Cariboo goldfields literature.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

old shafts and workings

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