a guide for recreational panning in british columbia
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Gold panning in British ColumbiaTRANSCRIPT
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A Guide to
Recreational Gold
Panning in
British Columbia
How to read the Mineral Titles Online
map, through this site you will see
what areas are open to placer stak-
ing as well as which lands are al-
ready claimed or staked. The maps
on MTO are colour coded; here is a
simple explanation of what the col-
ours represent: Green Shaded Areas: Parks, Ecological,
and Indian Reservations or Treaty Settle-
ment Lands.
Gray Shaded Areas: Private or Leased
Property.
Light Pink Areas: Placer Staking Areas.
Outlined Dark Pink: Staked Placer
Claim.
Blue Shaded Areas: Water
In Partnership with the Mininjstry of
Energy, Mines, and Petroleum
Resources and the Ministry of Tourism Mineral Titles Online
Before Claim Jumping
Where can I get a copy of the Guideline
and Regulations for Recreational
Panning in British Columbia
What Do I Need for
Recreational Gold Panning?
To take the trip
and go recreational
gold panning there isn’t a lot of equip-
ment needed, gold
pan and a shovel
with maybe a screening device to
classify the gravels
down to 5mm size
to make panning easier. But now
there are some
things that the
novice or recrea-
tional panner should know about as far as the rules and regula-
tions go for recreational panning in the Province of
British Columbia, these are the condensed ver-
sions: Recreation Panning is allowed on any creek,
stream, river, or body of water as long as the
property that you are panning from is not, placer
or mineral claimed, private property, unless you have the tenure or property owner’s permission.
Recreational Panning is allowed in most Provincial
Forestry Campsites, unless this area is placer or
mineral claimed.
Recreational Panning is not allowed in Provincial or Federal Parks unless first getting permission from
the park warden or agency responsible for the
park, on an Indian Reservation or Treaty Settle-
ment Lands, unless permission is first obtained from the Band.
Note: Permission is also needed to cross private
land, Indian Reservations and Treaty Settlement
Lands, to do otherwise would be trespassing and is against the law of British Columbia. Cutting locks
off gates to use existing roads could also be tres-
passing as this usually signifies that it is either
private land or under lease for some purpose from the government and that the surface rights are
taken up in ownership.
So before going recreational panning, either go to
a friend’s placer or mineral claim, or go to the Mineral Titles Online Website and check out the
area that you wish to go panning at, or go to one
of the following Provincial Recreational Panning
Reserves. The Ministry has created a number of recreational
panning reserves around the Province that are
open to the general public to use for recreational
gold panning. Recreational panning is restricted to hand pans, hand shovels, and metal detec-
tors. The use of sluice or shaker boxes, suction
dredges, and other mechanical devices are not
permitted.
Mineral Titles Online Website; Recreational Panning Reserves. The following maps are all in Adobe pdf format:
Barnes Creek BCGS Map 082E.090 & .100
Cayoosh Creek (near Lillooet), BCGS Map 092I.061 Erickson, BCGS Map 082F.008 & .018 Goldstream River, BCGS Map 082M.068 Hope, BCGS Map 092H.033 Kennedy River, BCGS Map 092F.013
Lytton, BCGS Map 092I.023 Princeton, BCGS Map 092H.048 Quesnel-Fraser River Junction, BCGS Map 093B.098 Spruce Creek, BCGS Map 104N.052 Van Winkle Flat (new Lytton), BCGS Map
092I.022
Wild Horse River (near Fort Steele), BCGS Map 082G.052 & .062 Yale, BCGS Map 092H.053
Not to Scale/Representation only
Recreational Gold Panning
You may enter onto mineral lands for the purpose of exploring for, minerals or placer minerals. “Mineral lands” is defined in the Act as meaning those lands in which minerals or placer minerals or the right to ex-plore for, minerals or placer minerals is vested in or reserved to the government. However, you must rec-ognize the following: • The right to enter does not extend to land within the curtilage of a dwelling house, land occupied by a build-ing, cultivated land, or orchard land unless first getting written permission from the landowner. • The right to enter does not extend to land that is currently under lease from the Provincial or Federal Governments for the purposes of Agriculture, Adven-ture Tourism, Tourism, Hunting and Fishing Outfitting, Trapping, Hydro Generation, or Industrial Uses. • The right to enter does not extend to land that is currently claim staked for mineral or placer minerals unless first getting written permission from the Tenure Holder. • The right to enter does not extend to Indian Reser-vations or Treaty Settlement Lands unless first getting written permission from the Band.
• You are liable to compensate the owner of private surface for any loss or damage caused by the entry, occupation or use of that land by yourself or an agent. • It is strongly recommended that you provide ad-vance notice to the owner of private land before you enter upon that land for any purpose related to Recrea-tional Gold Panning. You may use the surface of a mineral or placer lands for recreational panning purposes only. A permit under the Mines Act and Code is required be-fore you commence surface disturbance work by me-chanical means on a mineral or placer lands. A permit is required from the appropriate agency before you cut trees, use water, etc. No work should be commenced without approval from the regional Mines Act inspector.