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Peace River bars, town of Peace River

Gold ground Documented siteLegal to collect

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

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

Why this spot

Big northern river whose bars gave paying flour gold to early scowmen and still give colours

Historic flour gold on the Peace is documented in provincial records.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

soft mud, big-river currents

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