Wright standing in the old whitepine shaft 1865, excavated from the surface on the upper Williams creek /Conklin Gulch mine circa1990.
Pete Wright, owner and operator of Devlins Bench Mine company, worked for his entire adult life specializing in the Placer gold mining field. Born and raised in Whitehorse Yukon, growing up and working in the Atlin Goldfields in Northern BC near the Yukon Border.
Wright worked in all of the major mining operations in and around Atlin for his junior years starting at the age of 12, raking rocks for Ben Able in the Blue Canyon mine on upper Spruce creek, 15km west of Atlin BC.
Wright began work in Dawson City Yukon in 1982, working in these goldfields for a few years before returning to Atlin and starting a mobile repair and service bussiness for all of the largest mines in this area.Wright's mobile trucks specialized in the building and design of placer recovery equipment and wash plnats for the Atlin Goldfields.
One unique principle Wright learned from all of his years in the Northern Goldfields; let the tens of thousands of prospectors who flooded these goldfields during the 1860-1898 gold rushes do the prospecting!
All of the sucessful modern placer mines of the Atlin area, found that when working in and following the deep l898 diggings of the oldtime underground miners, produced fabulously rich results. Some days processing gravels from around these old shafts and tunnels from 1898 the gold recovery boxes (sluice boxes) would turn absolutely yellow with gold.
We maintained this result with most of the big mines in Atlin BC, With this in mind we processed several thousand ounces a year from these old worked mine sites.The Atlin area, from the 1980 goldrush to the present, has had all of it's major creeks worked out with this one principle in mind, follow the oldtime gold miners from the past gold rush. If these miners and prospectors did not find gold they perished, that is good incentive for a prospector.The shear number of men exploring these hills digging shafts and prospecting would be like hiring a work force of 20,000 desperate geologists and prospectors in modern times.
Wright worked in all of the major mining operations in and around Atlin for his junior years starting at the age of 12, raking rocks for Ben Able in the Blue Canyon mine on upper Spruce creek, 15km west of Atlin BC.
Wright began work in Dawson City Yukon in 1982, working in these goldfields for a few years before returning to Atlin and starting a mobile repair and service bussiness for all of the largest mines in this area.Wright's mobile trucks specialized in the building and design of placer recovery equipment and wash plnats for the Atlin Goldfields.
One unique principle Wright learned from all of his years in the Northern Goldfields; let the tens of thousands of prospectors who flooded these goldfields during the 1860-1898 gold rushes do the prospecting!
All of the sucessful modern placer mines of the Atlin area, found that when working in and following the deep l898 diggings of the oldtime underground miners, produced fabulously rich results. Some days processing gravels from around these old shafts and tunnels from 1898 the gold recovery boxes (sluice boxes) would turn absolutely yellow with gold.
We maintained this result with most of the big mines in Atlin BC, With this in mind we processed several thousand ounces a year from these old worked mine sites.The Atlin area, from the 1980 goldrush to the present, has had all of it's major creeks worked out with this one principle in mind, follow the oldtime gold miners from the past gold rush. If these miners and prospectors did not find gold they perished, that is good incentive for a prospector.The shear number of men exploring these hills digging shafts and prospecting would be like hiring a work force of 20,000 desperate geologists and prospectors in modern times.
Sheepshead shaft williams creek Cariboo
The Atlin area has produced several hundred thousand ounces from these open pit mines of the 1980's to present, most following this basic lesson.
Wright moved south in 1987 with this very principle in mind.
After researching the most famous targets in the Barkerville goldfields, he purchased the Crown Grant 17F, Conklin GulchPicture above), in the cariboo gold fields ,Upper Williams creek near Barkerville BC.
Wright moved south in 1987 with this very principle in mind.
After researching the most famous targets in the Barkerville goldfields, he purchased the Crown Grant 17F, Conklin GulchPicture above), in the cariboo gold fields ,Upper Williams creek near Barkerville BC.
Barkerville has an exceptional location for operating any type of Industrial business, with the surounding Industrial mill towns of Prince George and Quesnel BC.
These Towns have one of the best industrial supply and service bases of any Northern region.
After mining for several years on this claim, Wright decided with the Bull gold markets of the last years to expand his operations and go for some of the most famous Targets of the Cariboo/Barkerville Goldfields, see http://www.barkerville.ca/ .
Two targets come up in the history books of this famous goldfield which produced a calculated estimate of $35,000,000 in gold in a 261 square mile area.
The largest and richest of all the creeks, Williams Creek, produced a whopping $19,320,000. It is important to mention that these figures are all for the period 1874 to 1923, when the average gold prices with a gold purity average of .822 were calculated at $12 dollars per ounce. Simple calculations $19,320,000 divided by $12 per ounce (aprox) totalize a significant amount of gold, 1.6 million ounces off Williams creek and it's tributaries.
With Gold at an all time high on World Markets at $1040 US per ounce, 1.6 million ounces represent an amazing amount of placer gold, mostly produced by hand in deep underground shafts, deep under the present ground level on these old creek beds.
With this historical research in hand and the bullish gold markets of the 2009 markets, Wright started a new large operation on Williams creek, on the famous Devlins Bench group of claims, that has produced so handsomely during the 1860-1952 period.
Wright spent most of the 2009 season doing bulk exploration and bulk yardage testing, with the Orange scrubber screen plant in the pictures below. After an intensive project, building a new $350,000 dollar plant that came into operation at the end of August 2009, Wright began making regular shipments of raw bullion to Vancouver BC gold buyers.
Two targets come up in the history books of this famous goldfield which produced a calculated estimate of $35,000,000 in gold in a 261 square mile area.
The largest and richest of all the creeks, Williams Creek, produced a whopping $19,320,000. It is important to mention that these figures are all for the period 1874 to 1923, when the average gold prices with a gold purity average of .822 were calculated at $12 dollars per ounce. Simple calculations $19,320,000 divided by $12 per ounce (aprox) totalize a significant amount of gold, 1.6 million ounces off Williams creek and it's tributaries.
With Gold at an all time high on World Markets at $1040 US per ounce, 1.6 million ounces represent an amazing amount of placer gold, mostly produced by hand in deep underground shafts, deep under the present ground level on these old creek beds.
With this historical research in hand and the bullish gold markets of the 2009 markets, Wright started a new large operation on Williams creek, on the famous Devlins Bench group of claims, that has produced so handsomely during the 1860-1952 period.
Wright spent most of the 2009 season doing bulk exploration and bulk yardage testing, with the Orange scrubber screen plant in the pictures below. After an intensive project, building a new $350,000 dollar plant that came into operation at the end of August 2009, Wright began making regular shipments of raw bullion to Vancouver BC gold buyers.
The first shipment totaled 72 ounces, August 30th 2009, and the second shipment of 103 ounces was made on September 15th 2009.
These shipments represent the proof of a theory that has been proven in the Atlin, Dawson and gold fields all over the world; remine the turn of the century gold fields with modern technology and the operation is sure to be a sucess.
Please keep in touch with this web site for updates on a small privately owned project that will be sure to be a leader in the gold industry for the Cariboo goldfields in the years to come.
Personal note; to all my friends and heliski goldnugget customers in Atlin, I hope you enjoyed this website we put together, this will give you a view or at least an idea of the painstaking process we go through to find those unique amazing nuggets we pull out of the gravels in the Canadian mountains.
Please enjoy your gold nugget souvenir and I am looking forward to skiing with you at Klondike Heliskiing http://www.atlinheliski.com/, and panning for nuggets at -30 in a warm dry bar at the Atlin Inn Lodge!!
Whitegold in the winter and yellow in the summer!!All the best from Barkerville BC,for more information on the area and the Wells Bc 1930'3 Hardrock goldmining town, http://www.wellsbc.com/
These shipments represent the proof of a theory that has been proven in the Atlin, Dawson and gold fields all over the world; remine the turn of the century gold fields with modern technology and the operation is sure to be a sucess.
Please keep in touch with this web site for updates on a small privately owned project that will be sure to be a leader in the gold industry for the Cariboo goldfields in the years to come.
Personal note; to all my friends and heliski goldnugget customers in Atlin, I hope you enjoyed this website we put together, this will give you a view or at least an idea of the painstaking process we go through to find those unique amazing nuggets we pull out of the gravels in the Canadian mountains.
Please enjoy your gold nugget souvenir and I am looking forward to skiing with you at Klondike Heliskiing http://www.atlinheliski.com/, and panning for nuggets at -30 in a warm dry bar at the Atlin Inn Lodge!!
Whitegold in the winter and yellow in the summer!!All the best from Barkerville BC,for more information on the area and the Wells Bc 1930'3 Hardrock goldmining town, http://www.wellsbc.com/
For Devlin Bench gold mine tour information http://www.whitegold.ca/,
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