Gold Mining Movie Captures our work!

A small film company, http://jpsmediaworks.com/Home.html , has taken on an ambitious project. From making Tourism documentaries they were smitten by the gold bug and began to film a piece about the Gold Rush. However, through the alignment of the stars, they have come to us to and been transformed by the relationship between the early attempts to get gold and the ongoing development of mining in the Cariboo. They are doing an excellent job of putting together the pieces and showing the relationship between the drive and allure for gold that existed in the 1800's with the current situation. Frankly I thought we were immune from the kind of passionate gold fever that existed then, but when I see how they've woven the story together, I see I was wrong!

In addition to our work at 35f, they've begun to capture the reopening of the greatest treasure hunt in the Cariboo, the completion of the Heron Lead on Grouse Creek. That property has been the subject of a small 'war', owned by the most prestigous historical figures of the Cariboo goldfields and still holds the mystery of the missing section of lead, packed with nuggets, but cut off by water! We're so happy to have this development documented as there is so much more to mining than moving rock!

Just to pique our interest, the boys at jps whipped up this preliminary teaser. Although it is a work in progress, it gets to the heart of the matter in an instant. If you want to see it too, go to http://www.williamscreekgoldfields.ca/photos_devlin.html scroll to the bottom of the page and select Wilds to Riches