Gold Trails and Ghost Towns: The Bullion Pit

Leslie Dycke
Leslie Dycke
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Published 2019-04-15
Episode 68: Bullion Pit - The Bullion Pit is the largest hydraulic hole in the world, and still produces gold today. Its history and the story of John Beauregard Hobson are told.
The Bullion Pit is the Largest Hydraulic Placer Mine in the world and is Located 3 Miles downriver from the town of Likely BC, the Bullion Pit measures over 3 Kilometers in length, 800 feet wide and over 400 feet deep. The mines boundaries extend over 1.7 miles upriver.
All Comments (10)
  • @polymathperspective
    This pit is exactly what another mine looks like called the “Lost Pitt Lake Mine” and in that case it too is a pit but is naturally formed by glacier headwaters. It is surrounded by high peaks with a little creek just like this one where the bedrock is exposed and full of gold. This can happen naturally in glaciers with ice melting.
  • @frankwood-sn5pu
    well no one has hit it yet but people are still finding good gold there to this day