You hit the nail right on the head Assembler. From the government minfiles here is the reason why...
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The FRASER CANYON (or Tertiary) placer gold occurrence is located 18 kilometres northwest of Quesnel adjacent to the Fraser River, within an old river channel of probable Upper Tertiary (perhaps Miocene) age. The workings on the north side of the river are known as the Tertiary mine while the south side workings are known as the Canyon mine. The deposit has been worked since 1917 and records indicate that approximately 68,560 grams of gold have been recovered from the Tertiary mine up to 1926 when the channel was lost. Subsequent work has focused on attempting to locate the extension of this channel with little success. |
To this day the extension of this tertiary channel has not been found......
