Waterbodies Canadian prospectors have written about

Why we publish this, and what it is not

Prospectors have been naming creeks in public for twenty years — on forums, in video descriptions, in club newsletters, in the trip reports that follow every long weekend. That record is scattered and it disappears when a forum dies. Collecting it in one place, with the source link attached, is genuinely useful: it tells you which waterbodies have a history worth researching before you spend a day driving.

It tells you nothing about legality. A creek mentioned forty times can be entirely staked, sit inside a provincial park, run through private land, or cross reserve or treaty territory. Read the province rules, check the claim registry named in your province guide, and get permission. A mention is a lead, not a licence.

And it tells you nothing about gold. People post their good days. Nobody posts the eleven hours that produced nothing. Treat "pickers reported, 2019" as one person's afternoon, not as a survey.

We record the named waterbody and nothing finer. No usernames, no real names, no exact coordinates from anybody's post — the centres here are geocoded from public place-name data, and the maps draw a circle rather than a point for exactly that reason. If a page describes ground you hold or manage and you want it corrected or removed, email hello@localkarat.ca.