Grassroots prospecting uncovers B.C. gold belt

Vancouver -- The discovery of coarse placer gold at the mouth of the Nicoamen River in 1857 sparked a gold rush that a year later drew an estimated 20,000 prospectors and fortune-seekers to the Fraser and Thompson Rivers of southern...

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