There are conflicting accounts of whom to credit with bringing this gold to Fort Simpson and to the attention of the HBC.
Mitchell Inlet is in the southern part of Englefield Bay on the west coast of Moresby Island in Haida Gwaii.
The nearest major Haida village is Kaisun, also in Englefield Bay about 12 nautical miles to the northwest.
The sixteen claims by then forming the property and owned by J. McLellan were bonded Nuba Mining in 1907 but the mine did not have a successful showing and the company surrendered its claims in 1912, with McLellan continuing his own work on the site until 1933.
[3] However, the Parks Canada website lists the location of this site as the Haida village of Haina.