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Homestake Mining Company Company History

Homestake has maintained a major role in the gold mining industry for over 120 years. Since 1990, the Company has produced 17 million gold and equivalent ounces. At the end of 1999, Homestake''s share of proven and probable reserves amounted to million ounces of gold and 110 million ounces of silver. Homestake operates both underground and ...

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British Lithium announces "better than expected" lithium mining results

British Lithium has announced that a 13tonne ore sample mined from its facility in the UK town of St Austell contains a "better than expected" grade of lithium, a key development in the company''s longterm goal of developing a lithium mining and processing facility in the region. By JP Casey. "The results are indicating a higher grade ...

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heyday | definition in the Cambridge EnglishChinese (Traditional ...

heyday definition, audio pronunciation and more for heyday: the most successful or popular period of someone or something: See more in the Cambridge EnglishChinese (Traditional) Dictionary Cambridge Dictionary

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Coal mining as a melting pot: Everyone''s the same underground

In the heyday of the mining industry, rivers led a miserable existence, channeled and turned into sewers. They were supplemented by hundreds of kilometers of canals to enable the transport of ...

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Lightning Creek BC Gold Adventures

Lode gold production started in 1933 from the Cariboo Gold Quartz Mine at Wells, During the period January 10, 1933 through April 15, 1967 when the mine was closed down, some 2,929,256 tons of ore grading an average of ounces per ton, produced a total of 1,253,683 ounces of gold. Lode gold is now being produced by the Mosquito Creek ...

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A brief history of diamonds and the Big Hole in Kimberley

The Heyday of Diamond Mining. Explore Kimberley › Heyday of Diamond Mining. 1866: Eureka! Erasmus Jacobs, a 15yearold farmer''s son, finds Africa''s first authenticated diamond near the Orange River, Hopetown. ... British Colonial Commissioners arrived in New Rush on 17 November 1871 to exercise authority over the territory on behalf of the ...

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History of Mineralogy in Wales | Museum Wales

Metalliferous and, later on, "spar" minerals have variously been worked by the Romans, by the Cistercian Monks, by celebrated seventeenth century mining characters such as Thomas Bushell and others, on into the heyday of Welsh metal mining in the mid nineteenth century, when virtually every outcropping vein or fault was tried by the drivage ...

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Mining Legislation Mineral Titles Province of British Columbia

October 2010: The Ministry of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation is proceeding with amendments to the Mineral Tenure Act relating to the administration of tenures and the Mineral Titles Online (MTO) process. Mineral Tenure Amendment Act, 2004 (Bill 29) (PDF) Sections 35 and 37 of this Amendment Act are brought into force by BC Reg 288/2006.

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Old Mining Town Restored in British Columbia

May 17, 1964Barkerville swelled to a population of 10,000 — with everything staked on gold. Fortunes were made in a day and lost overnight. When a fire gutted the town on Sept. 16, 1868, a new city began to ...

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A brief guide to primary sources for mining history

The Mining Journal, first published in 1835, particularly illustrates the heyday and decline of British mining enterprise, as does its later rival the Mining World. With only two restricted indexes as yet in print the researcher is faced with a search of limited library holdings (Claughton 1995 and Jeffcock et al. 1989).

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Britain to have just one remaining coal pit after UK Coal announces ...

In coal''s heyday in the first half of the 20th century the UK had more than 1,000 pits. That number had fallen to about 200 by the time of the miners'' strikes.

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"Pan In A Can Paydirt" harken back to gold rush | Mining Energy

A new venture called "Pan In A Can Paydirt" has been launched by Stephen Lathem of Fort Steele, the owner of the Nip and Tuck Mine, along with Cranbrook business owner, James Deraspe. The concept is pretty simple take some paydirt (gold bearing gravel) and package it up in a nicely labelled container and sell it for 25. The paydirt comes ...

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Canada Travel: Britannia Mine Museum a fine family spot in British ...

May 23, 2013In another building, artifacts from mining''s heyday tell the stories of families from the nearby communities of Mount Sheer and Britannia Beach, which could access Vancouver only by steamship ...

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EXPLORATION IN BRITISH COLUMBIA 1992 Gov

Province of British Columbia and Petroleum Resources Ministry of Energy, Mines Hon. Anne Edwards, Minister ... Geology, exploration, and mining in British Columbia, ISSN . 1979 publishedin 1983. Issuing body varies:, ... the heyday of flowthrough funding. The past four years (Figure A1), peaking above 200 million in 1988, ...

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Coal Mining | The Canadian Encyclopedia

Sandlos, John and Arn Keeling. "Coal Mining". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 23 March 2015, ... during the heyday period in the first half of the 20th century, total annual coal production in Canada rose from about three million tonnes in 1890, to 17 million tonnes in 1942. ... Nanaimo, British Columbia in 1887 (150 dead); and Hillcrest, Alberta in ...

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Homestake Mining Company History ()

The mining company enjoyed the lucrative years of gold mining''s heyday during the first half of the 20th century. The company prospered during this period, sending its miners deeper and deeper into the Homestake mine, where they located sizable deposits of gold enveloped in tons of ore. ... British Columbia Mining (1,036) British Columbia''s ...

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What is Placer Gold Mining? Yukon National Park Service

The word placer is thought to have come from Catalan and Spanish, meaning a shoal or sand bar. The word entered the American vocabulary during the 1848 California Gold Rush, and when gold was discovered in Alaska and the Canadian Klondike in the late 1890s, the goldseekers who rushed northward brought with them various placer mining technologies.

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Frozen Assets. British mining, exploration, and geopolitics on ...

This study concerns the involvement of four British companies in the industrialisation of Spitsbergen in the European Arctic in the first half of the twentieth century. The companies were the Spitzbergen Coal Trading Co., the Spitzbergen ... British mining, exploration, and geopolitics on Spitsbergen, 190453. Frigga Kruse. Download ...

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