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Dallasite is found in Triassic volcanic rocks of Vancouver Island and is considered the third most important gem material in British Columbia. [3]
Vancouver Island in British Columbia Canada, is a well known place to find Flower Stone, mainly on the east coast. It was once commercially mined on Texada island which is off the east coast of Vancouver Island, but there is now a moratorium on mining there, although rock hounds may still hand pick it.
Moresby Island: 1908–1987 Magnetite lode discovered by Haida people in the late 18th century [58] Tulsequah Chief Mine: Zn, Cu, Pb, Ag, Au, Cd: N/A Taku River: Redfern Resources Ltd. 1925– [59] [60] Tyee Mine: North Cowichan: Vancouver Island: Tyee Copper Co.
Leechtown is at the confluence [1] of the Leech River [2] into the Sooke River [3] in southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The ghost town , off BC Highway 1 is about 59 kilometres (37 mi) by road northwest of Victoria .
When news of the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush reached London, Richard Clement Moody was hand-picked by the Colonial Office, under Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, to establish British order and to transform British Columbia into the British Empire's "bulwark in the farthest west" [4] and "found a second England on the shores of the Pacific."
In 1986, California named benitoite as its state gemstone, a form of the mineral barium titanium silicate that is unique to the Golden State and only found in gem quality in San Benito County. [ 80 ] ^ Colorado is the only state whose geological symbols reflect the national flag's colors: red (rhodochrosite), white (yule marble), and blue ...
The Karmutsen Formation is a Late Triassic volcanic sequence of tholeiitic pillow basalts and breccias on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. It is perhaps the thickest accreted section of an oceanic plateau worldwide, exposing up to 6000 m of basal sediment- sill complexes, basaltic to picritic pillow lavas, pillow breccia , and thick ...
The Reserve at Ebey's Landing provides a vivid historical record of Pacific Northwest history, including the first exploration of Puget Sound by Captain George Vancouver in 1792; early settlement by Colonel Isaac Ebey, who filed a claim under the Donation Land Claim Act in 1850; [3] growth and settlement resulting from the Oregon Trail and the Westward migration; the Donation Land Laws (1850 ...