We have been dabbling with claims in the Barkerville area for 7-8 years now.
After working a bit on the 4 - 5 that we have, we are only going to keep one.
Not that the others didn’t produce, just that we will be focussing on one we feel to be the most promising.
Best to do a search as it will take quite a while, explain all the in and outs of snapping up a claim. The expiry dates used to come annually on defaults but I think they changed that all around and come available in groups.
It might be monthly now?
Available claims (not currently claimed) need to be in a placer area, the cost were around $100 for approximately 400 yard x 400 cell, as they are called.
Some good info here,
https://www.bcplacer.com/claims_leases.htm
TBark