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Mining has been [clarification needed] Snow Lake's major industry since incorporation. Two separate mining ventures have operated in the community over the past 40 years. TVX/Kinross/High River operated the New Britannia Mine, which closed in January 2005, and HudBay Minerals, which operated 12 area mines.
One of Canada's deepest mines. [5] Britannia Mine: Cu, Zn, Pb, Ag, Au, Cd: Britannia Beach: Howe Sound: Britannia Mining and Smelting Co. Ltd. (1904–1963) Anaconda (1963–1974) 1904–1974 Now the Britannia Mine Museum; often used as film set [6]
Old WABCO haul truck at museum, 2009 Underground mine tour in the old Britannia mine, 2009. The Britannia Mine Museum, formerly British Columbia Museum of Mining, is a non-profit organization in Britannia Beach, 55 km kilometres north of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on the Sea-to-Sky Highway on Howe Sound.
The Britannia Mining and Smelting Company, a branch of the Howe Sound Company, finally commenced mining in the early 1900s, and owned the site for the next sixty years. The first ore was shipped to the Crofton Smelter on Vancouver Island in 1904, and the mine achieved full production in 1905.
A gravity-fed concentrator used to process copper ore for one of Canada's largest mining operations in the 1920s and 1930s; illustrative of the innovation that made the Britannia Mines an important site in Canadian mining history Britannia Shipyard [14] 1890 (established) 1991 Richmond
copper mining (hard rock)and milling 1904-1959 Britannia Mining & Smelting Company; 1959-1962 Howe Sound Company; 1962-1974 Anaconda: several thousands in the 1940s and 1950s approx. 300 1904-1974 (now site of Britannia Mine Museum) Brooklyn: Boundary: Kootenay Boundary 0 Butedale: Central Coast: Central Coast
Its name does not come directly from associations with Britain, but from the MV Britannia, the old Vancouver-Squamish steamer (a new MV Britannia built in 1983 is in use as a tourboat based in Coal Harbour, Vancouver). Today the mine mill site is the Britannia Mine Museum, with mine shaft tours, gold panning, etc. The prominent multi-story mine ...
Bridge River Exploration Company Gold mining: Abandoned Bridge River: Bridge River Power Project: Hydropower: Mostly depopulated Britannia Beach: 1900 Britannia Mining and Smelting Co. Copper and gold mining: Camp McKinney: 1896 Gold mining: Abandoned in 1903 [3] [4] Cassiar: 1952 Cassiar Asbestos Company Asbestos mining: Abandoned in 1990s [5 ...