PlacerGold | West Coast Placer

Record 01 Jan 2021 Equipment

Deep Dive into Dowsing

As prospectors, we have a deep connection to the past. We live in a world where technology has advanced to an amazing level. High…

Record 02 Mar 2020 History

Throughout mining history, there are stories of scoundrels, cheats, bandits, and liars. The gold rush towns had their share of bad actors but above…

Record 03 Jan 2020 History

In British Columbia it is necessary to hold a Free Miner’s Certificate (or FMC for short) to buy and sell mining claims. Most miners,…

Record 04 Apr 2017 Science

There’s something about gold. It possesses us, sometimes entire nations to accumulate more and more of it. Humans have had a strong affinity for…

Record 05 Jun 2016 Trip Reports

In the spring 2016 I was hired to help on a large scale placer exploration program in the Yukon. The property is located in a…

Record 06 Apr 2016 Drones

West Coast Placer was contracted to conduct high resolution aerial drone mapping of a coal mine in Alberta, Canada. We were hired by the…

Record 07 Apr 2016 Trip Reports

Last week my neighbour phoned me and asked if I wanted to go on a road trip to check out an adit by Harrison…

Record 08 Mar 2016 Equipment

In the last couple years the BC government has changed the radio frequencies used on all the forest service roads (FSRs). They used to…