There are stories in local history books of the pioneers going to the NSR to get enough gold to buy their first cows. I have found mentions of gold being as big as 1/2 a pennyweight in some places. (20 pennyweights to an ounce)
Gold is where you find it for sure. Same as diamonds.
6Tmile- you are in the evansburg area. Be on the look out for diamonds in the gravels too.
The following is an excerpt:
In 1958, Entwistle resident Einar Opdahl found a diamond in the banks of the Pembina River. The diamond weighed 0.83 carats (170 mg), and was described as being “a perfect octahedron with eight faces; a clear, colorless stone.”[6] Opdahl sold the diamond to gem cutter Ed Arsenault for $500. It was later claimed that Arsenault discovered the diamond.
When De Beers staked a claim for diamond mining in Alberta’s Peace River country in 1990, people were reminded of the discovery of a diamond in the Pembina River near Entwistle. Several Alberta-based exploratory companies staked diamond claims near Entwistle and the Pembina River in 1992.[6]
Opdahl and Arsenault’s discovery and the mini-boom in diamond prospecting led Entwistle to claim the title Diamond Capital of Canada in 1994.
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