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Government Agent Office,

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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.