Slumach's Gold

[@bctrails7206]

I believe this timeless legend tells the tale of a lost gold mine that was and is still waiting to be found. I also believe B.C's gold mining history goes further back than most have taken the time to consider.

[@coryryder9070]

any laylines around that area

[@rayrayray7494]

this has been a dream trip of mine or years i envy you

[@bcherbs]

hello from Terrace BC, awesome vid TY for sharing

[@pup1008]

Loved the video! Only 15mins flying time from Vancouver... Probably another 10 years this pristine glen will be an open sewer full of human debris & filth!

[@rainygirl65]

That didn’t happen yet 😅. You should go there and see what it actually is.

[@panmandanpmd4456]

Great video

[@quivalla]

In Billy Proctors book Full moon, Flood tide he describes a lost gold mine in knights inlet. Story has some similarities to this. His father grub staked a First Nations man who would disappear during the summer and come back in the winter with enough gold for him to spend lavishly. His father and others tried follow him but always lost him. Then one winter he never came back. Mr Proctor now in his 80s and told me he found a small camp past Glendale cove he thought may have been his camp but cant remember the exact spot. I think his father may have told him about Slumach and he somehow subconsciously created this story.

[@davidwmuise]

I found this mine five years ago and wrote a book all about it. You're 5 years too late. the key was that the three natives as well as Walter Jackson said it was three days journey from where they were picked up at Pitt lake.

[@wingsovercanada]

Actually, they were not too late. The episode was filmed in 2002, but what they found instead of a mine was a gold creek: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lXTTnXihaqaIiLM

[@greatwhitenorthoverland]

Hey what book? I would like to know more

[@davidwmuise]

@@greatwhitenorthoverland my book was put on hold because I signed a contract to do a show on the mine. But there is a whole lot more to this mine then people realize and it’s older then they think.

[@polymathperspective]

Actually it didn’t take him three days it says right here in own words. So your book is not correct nor is your location. It’s a glacier gold deposit in between three peaks. He wasn’t feeling well so it took him THREE days and normally only takes TWO. “After three days of extreme hard traveling it would not be over 2 days of good going but the way was rough and I was not feeling well.” - Jackson

[@polymathperspective]

The importance of going to the headwaters is because they are glacier headwaters made by when snow melts ONLY. Jackson went in July and knew timing. He then takes the mouth all the way up to the SOURCE where gold is actually found in bedrock. In a canyon that looks like a dimple and has no exit. Resting in between three peaks. - I’m 100% sure your book is about made up connections you created in your own head, believed your own biases and still have no gold.

[@polymathperspective]

The reason why the streams can be there and gone the next year is because they are Glacier streams (glacier headwaters) made by when snow melts and ice melts which exposes the bedrock up high near glaciers BUT also creates a seasonal creek that will vanish when winter comes around again. People have overlooked seasons. Jackson went in July and found this creek. Everybody else might go tomorrow and see absolutely nothing. Waterfalls are this way also in canyons that flood in winter or monsoon season. They disappear.

[@wingsovercanada]

Watch the second part and you can learn more about the gold creek. Apparently, it has been there for a number of years, but the water level tends to vary by season, as you described. kzbin.info/www/bejne/lXTTnXihaqaIiLM

[@polymathperspective]

@@wingsovercanada I just found this to be a natural sleuth made by nature. So the PIT is actually a quarry also when the glacier melts etc. when it is empty the bedrock is BARE (exposed) with cracks in the ground filled with gold, Even a bench Slumach slept on with moss covered was in this pit and is moss covered and “bare” because it is normally submerged under water. Sleuth has formed naturally in this pit

[@dragonfly4690]

maybe he was a trusted trader who was used by many different local indigenous people and his job was to go into town and trade gold for supplies simply for the sole fact that he was more accepted by the towns people than most of the indigenous people at the time that he was getting the gold from . meaning the gold was coming from many different places over the whole area .it would be interesting to know what he was buying when he was in town it might give a clue to were he was going or if im right and he was buying for many different people

[@juspete5527]

You wanna know where it is i will tell you. The quartz vwin is visible on google earth. Its in a national park

[@Bobby-Dingers]

I like how Chris started itching his neck as soon as gold was brought up. Edit Bonus: Do not eat slugs.

[@greatwhitenorthoverland]

Hey can I get a hold of the guy who showed you this spot? I can pay

[@wingsovercanada]

If he's still working at the Pitt River Lodge, maybe. We've lost touch since the episode was filmed.

[@georgeloyie7456]

So where's the rest?I watched this on TV years ago and it wasn't a 2 part teaser!

[@wingsovercanada]

The full episode can still be ordered on DVD: www.wingsovercanada.ca/store_eps.html

[@wingsovercanada]

Try this link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lXTTnXihaqaIiLM

[@herby375]

Awesome! part 2 ?

[@wingsovercanada]

For the whole episode, you would have to order on DVD. www.wingsovercanada.ca/store.html

[@IETCHX69]

at 13:50 , 3 grand worth of fish ffs !

[@davemexico260]

You have a better chance in Vegas.

[@russellloomis4376]

Great video but the chopping wood in the beginning. Come on really???😂

[@seudechrist]

That guy really ate a bug 😂😂😂...

[@VIRAL_DNA]

Looked like a Black Licorice Slug. Yummy.

[@wingsovercanada]

@@VIRAL_DNA It was a real bug. Gross, but apparently some people DID actually survive on that.

[@mcamcay]

and part 2?..

[@wingsovercanada]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/lXTTnXihaqaIiLM

[@davidwmuise]

Walter Jackson who is known to be the last one to fine slow Max mine stated that it took him three days journey to get out he was picked up near the islands on Pitt Lake which to me is near Williams Landing so if you go from Williams Landing and walk to the head of pit lake how many days do you think it will take you ? Why keep heading even further North? Another thing, no native would leave three horses in a grizzly infested area. But it’s ok you can go your way and I’ll keep this place to myself.

[@Shadowmick]

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