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Mining on Vancouver Island has taken place since the arrival of the Europeans in the 18th century. Vancouver Island, off the coast of British Columbia, Canada, has considerable deposits of minerals, notably coal and copper. In the late 19th century, the abundance of copper led to a large industry, with many entrepreneurs trying to get a large ...
Vancouver Island: Utah Mining: 1971–1995 Produced 1.3 million tonnes Cu, 31,000 tonnes Mo, 10.9 million ounces Ag, and 1.03 million ounces Au ... Mobile view ...
Reorganized as Lenora, Mt. Sicker Copper Mining Co., Croft became the manager. [6] [9] By January 1900, the Lenora mine was the fourth largest shipper of ore in BC. [9] [10] Mining ceased in late 1902 when the company went into receivership. [11] During 1905, small scale operations resumed until the mine closure the following year. [12]
This is the Nickel Plate Mine tramway of the Hedley Gold Mining Company in British Columbia. The mining companies that were involved, and most prominent on Vancouver Island at the time, were: The Canadian Collieries (Dunsmuir) Limited, the Western Fuel of San Francisco, the Pacific Coast Collieries, and the Nanaimo Coal Company. [1]
Mining ceased in late 1902 when the company went into receivership. Having exhausted other ore supplies, the smelter closed in 1903. [5] In 1906, the Britannia Mining & Smelting Company bought the smelter. [6] A customs office existed between 1906 and 1909. [7] Following plummeting copper prices during the Panic of 1907, the smelter closed in ...
In 1862 the HBC sold its coal interests to an English Company known as the Vancouver Coal Mining and Land Company (VCML). Output was 100 tons a day by 1863 and double that by 1866. By 1874, annual production was 80,000 tons and it was 10 times that by 1884. The mines in Wellington were owned by Robert Dunsmuir. Initially his company was ...
Morden Colliery Historic Provincial Park is a 4-hectare (9.9-acre) historic provincial park near the east coast of southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia. [1] The location off BC Highway 19 is about 102 kilometres (63 mi) by road northwest of Victoria , and 10 kilometres (6 mi) south of Nanaimo .
Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting and Power Co. was established by charter to operate in the Boundary region of southern British Columbia. Primarily involved in the mining and smelting of copper, the conglomerate became a publicly traded company. The various corporate operating names within the former group mostly specified the Granby identity.