Quartz Creek is a creek in
Selkirk Mountains
The Selkirk Mountains are a mountain range spanning the northern portion of the Idaho Panhandle, eastern Washington, and southeastern British Columbia which are part of a larger grouping of mountains, the Columbia Mountains. They begin at Mica Pe ...
in the
West Kootenay
The Kootenays or Kootenay ( ) is a region of southeastern British Columbia. It takes its name from the Kootenay River, which in turn was named for the Kutenai First Nations people.
Boundaries
The Kootenays are more or less defined by the Kootenay ...
region of the
Regional District of Central Kootenay in
British Columbia,
Canada. This short creek flows into the
Salmo River in
Ymir, British Columbia. The source of the creek is just to the west of the Ymir townsite a few kilometres up Round Mountain. Quartz creek was mined for gold in the 1860s.
The creek is the source of drinking water in the town of Ymir. The Regional District of Central Kootenay added a filtration system in the early 2010s for the community.
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Rivers of British Columbia
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