Eskay Creek

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Stikine River

The Eskay Creek region is a rich gold and silver mining area in the Unuk and Iskut River region on north coastal mountains of British Columbia. Remote and rugged, the area has a service road from the Stewart-Cassiar Highway at Bob Quinn Lake.

The mining region was spearheaded by Murray Pezim in 1987 with diamond drilling and underground mining established. Development work by Prime Resources yielded gold in 1988 when hole 109 turned out to contain 5 oz of gold per ton. A mill and camp was later set up and the mine entered into production.

The area was mined by Homestake Mining and then Barrick Gold Corporation. The geology is considered by most workers to be a volcanogenic massive sulfide ore deposit containing gold, silver, copper, zinc, arsenic, antimony and mercury.^[1] The mine produced 3.3 million ounces of gold and 160 million ounces of silver at average grades of 45 g/t gold and 2,224 g/t silver from 1994 -2008. ^[2]

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Coordinates: 56°38′59″N 130°28′02″W / 56.64972°N 130.46722°W / 56.64972; -130.46722