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The following lists of mines in Canada are subsidiaries to the list of mines article and lists working, defunct and future mines in the country and is organised by the primary mineral output and province.
The largest producing mines of Virgin Valley have been the famous Rainbow Ridge, [41] Royal Peacock, [42] Bonanza, [43] Opal Queen, [44] and WRT Stonetree/Black Beauty [45] mines. The largest unpolished black opal in the Smithsonian Institution, known as the "Roebling opal", [46] came out of the tunneled portion of the Rainbow Ridge Mine in ...
Gagnon, Quebec, an iron mining company town of Québec Cartier Mining Company, abandoned in 1985. This is a list of current and former company towns in Canada. True company towns are those "closed communities owned and administered by the industrial employer". [1]
While opal mining around the town had slumped in the early 1940s, it picked up after a local Aboriginal woman, Tottie Bryant, discovered a large deposit in 1945. [24] In August 1956 at the Eight Mile opal field, the Olympic Australis opal was found approximately 30 feet below the ground. It is the largest and one of the most valuable opals ...
Opal is a hamlet in central Alberta, Canada within Thorhild County. [2] It is located 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) north of Highway 28 , approximately 53 kilometres (33 mi) northeast of Edmonton . Originally named Rutherford after Alberta's first premier, Alexander Cameron Rutherford but was renamed to the unique "Opal" when the first post office ...
This list of gold mines in Canada is subsidiary to the list of mines article and lists working, defunct and future mines in the country. For practical purposes, defunct and future mines are demarcated in italics and bold respectively. Asterisks (*) note mines which produce(d) gold as a secondary product..
After Independence, the town to Tequila was made the seat of one of the departments of the new state of Jalisco. When these departments were reorganized into municipalities, the town of Tequila was made the seat of the municipality of the same name. In 1874, the town of Tequila was given the official status of city.
Jalisco's charro tradition is particularly strong in Los Altos. In Spain, a charro is a native of the province of Salamanca, especially in the area of Alba de Tormes, Vitigudino, Ciudad Rodrigo and Ledesma. [22] It's likely that the Mexican charro tradition derived from Spanish horsemen who came from Salamanca and settled in Los Altos de Jalisco.