Cunningham Creek
Cunningham Creek was discovered in the spring of 1861 by a group of miners following Bill Cunningham over the top of Yanks Peak into the area of Round Top Mountain. The discovery claim on Cunningham produced 400 ounces of gold from one bedrock fracture covered by a cement like material. Course nuggets over 3 ounces were common on bedrock. 300 men worked on the creek for several years, but most filtered off to better ground at Barkerville or Antler Creek. Chinese miners reworked the old mines several times on Cunningham, and mining continues on the creek to this day. It is believed that Cunningham Creek has produced 2.5 to 3 million ounces of gold between 1861 and today
Cunningham Creek by Amos Bowman
Looking up Pierce Creek You would never know it but this pleasent little draw hummed with over 100 men over a century ago. Now even there hand piles are bearly visible.
The Upper Reaches of Pierce Creek
The end of Pierce Gulch before meeting Pierce Creek which meets Cunningham.
Century old hand workings, you can still see where the old timers stopped cleaning the creek bed.
Pierce O'Pie claim. Shaput old tungsten camp. The remaining bunkhouse and other ruins.
Side shot of the standing bunk house. Its in wonderful shape and could still be lived in with only minor work.
Overlooking Cunningham pass creek
Amazing malachite and azurite in this vein as well as different pyrite and galena
Gold quartz ore at the Sheapou silver mine
Looking out over Pierce gulch
A possible adit or exploration trench with an amazing waste pile
The main adit, now nearly caved in
A bit of gold from my lower Cunningham creek claim.
lots of erosion happening this year. probably means more gold coming down stream! June 2020.
Gravel banks on Cunningham creek June 2020. Very late wet spring, heavy snow year.
Hand piled rocks from ground sluicing, around 1902! @The Bear Hydraulic Pit.
Cunningham Creek
The Bear Hydraulic Pit on Cunningham Creek
The Bear Hydraulic Pit on Cunningham Creek
Going down, summer!
My Cunningham Claim
Zipline!
How do you get equipment down a very steep bushy slope when all the gold is at the bottom? You build a zipline!
Cunningham Creek Claim
For Sale
Cunningham Creek claim tenure #1069589
Owner: Ian James Douglas
Located above Cunningham Canyon, accessed by steep trail from the XRD (6.87km) off 3100FSR.
Access to the claim is from Km 6 on the XRD, off the 3100FSR located near the community of Wells BC, on Cunningham Creek. Access to the creek is difficult, terrain is steep and deeply brushed in, the trail however is well marked and easy to follow down the slope. Access for gear is also available by a long distance zip line installed by my partners and I (NOT FOR USE BY PEOPLE!). $5,000
Contact Ian Douglas ianjamesdouglas@hotmail.com
Warning — This property is offered for mining purposes only and ownership of the title to it does not include ownership of the surface rights or the right to use the surface for residential or recreational purposes.
