The xrf assay from the ready mix plant, then a photo of the wash plant and pit.
Years ago the Ready Mix plant got gravel from the river bars during low water, fisheries stopped issuing permits so the owner of the plant purchased the property from which the gravel is now extracted to make ready mix concrete. In order to make a quality product the fines clinging to the gravel are first washed off in the wash plant.
The coarser heavier stuff settles out in the first pond with the finer silt flowing over to a second pit which is much larger the larger size allows the finer silt to settle out before the water flows into a third pit to be recycled through the plant.
Looking at the face of the gravel directly in front of the loader you can visualise a valley filed with glacial till, would love to see bedrock. Also to further investigate the pit property core samples should be taken from the rock face to the left of the loader, this face has promise.
The assay is from the coarser heavier material from the first pit.
You can learn more from an assay than just how many part per million, you can back track. For instance the watershed from which this gravel pit is located also has a mine further up the Coqahalla called Caroline. The Caroline is perhaps 15 miles from the gravel pit site but both have one thing in common, the Caroline was well known for its high arsenic content in the ore.
Now we will notice from the assay arsenic reports from a low of 23 ppm to a high of 26 ppm, since the gravel pit was deposited by glacier we can safely assume the ice sheet traversed from east to west scrapping hard rock along the way liberating values.
I was not able to obtain a sample for assay from the second wash plant pit until a week later when the plant was shut down and allowed to drain so that the ponds could be cleaned out, Once I was able to access the second pond grabbed some samples to play with in a make shift flotation cell, what I found is that yes there is some visible gold
With out relying on an assay on the 2nd pit, we'll have to rely on experience, gold is a very soft metal the glacier would have ground the metal into a very fine powder, the fine powder is in prospecting terms called flour or float. In other words light enough to travel over to the second wash plant pit.
To further support my theory the glacial deposit in the gravel pit we can assume did not travel some 15 miles from where the Caroline mine is located of which arsenic is documented, From the assay we are able to see both the gravel pit and Caroline have one thing on common arsenic.
If I were younger and more ambitious I would be out there investigating the 15 miles mountain range between the gravel pit and Caroline.
traveling up the Hope Princeton Hwy towards Sunshine valley which by the way has a separate watershed the water travels from east to west eventually meeting up with the Fraser. Just before the Hope slide another gravel pit, from which I took sample and had an XRF assay done on the results no arsenic at all with a very high titanium content five time higher than the Ready Mix assay.
The Sunshine Valley is south of the Coqahalla valley from where the gravel pit is located, from the Hope slide gravel pit assay we know were off the gold trail.
Now you know why assays are not shared with outside interests. Gleaning information from the minerals and tittles office IMHO a waste of time as most claim owners hold on speculation.
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