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From 1917 to 2001, it was the home to the world's largest lead-zinc mine, the Sullivan Mine. Now it is mainly a tourist destination and home to the Kimberley Alpine Resort , a ski area and Kimberley's Underground Mining Railway that features a 750-foot-long (230 m) underground mining interpretive centre complete with operational 3 ft ( 914 mm ...
The Sullivan Mine is a now-closed conventional–mechanized underground mine located in Kimberley, British Columbia, Canada. The ore body is a complex, sediment-hosted, sedimentary exhalative deposit consisting primarily of zinc, lead, and iron sulphides. Lead, zinc, silver and tin were the economic metals produced. [1]
Kimberley Heritage Museum: Kimberley: East Kootenay: History: website, local history [10] Kimberley's Underground Mining Railway: Kimberley: East Kootenay: Railroad: website, heritage railroad and mining tour; operated by the Sullivan Mine and Railway Historical Society Kitimat Museum: Kitimat: Kitimat-Stikine: Multiple
A mine railway (or mine railroad, U.S.), sometimes pit railway, is a railway constructed to carry materials and workers in and out of a mine. [1] Materials transported typically include ore , coal and overburden (also called variously spoils, waste, slack, culm, [ 2 ] and tilings; all meaning waste rock).
Columbia and Western Railway (defunct) Kaslo and Slocan Railway (defunct) Kimberley's Underground Mining Railway (defunct) Klondike Mines Railway (defunct) North Western Coal and Navigation Company (defunct) Sullivan Mine (defunct) Western Development Museum Short Line (located at the Moose Jaw Western Development Museum) (operating)
Kimberley Mine Section. Kimberley Mine shaft. The Kimberley Mine or Tim Kuilmine [1] (Afrikaans: Groot Gat) is an open-pit and underground mine in Kimberley, South Africa, and claimed to be the deepest hole excavated by hand, although this claim is disputed by Jagersfontein. [2]
As miners arrived in their thousands the hill disappeared and subsequently became known as the Big Hole (or Kimberley se Gat in Afrikaans), or, more formally, Kimberley Mine. From mid-July 1871 to 1914, 50,000 miners dug the hole with picks and shovels, yielding 2,722 kg of diamonds. The Big Hole has a surface of 17 hectares (42 acres) and is ...
Tumurtei-Khandgait mine railroad; W. Wishaw and Coltness Railway This page was last edited on 12 September 2019, at 11:43 (UTC). Text is available under the ...