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Eight years later, the company was listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol HBM. [5] In 1958, Hudbay opened its first mine in Snow Lake, 215 kilometres east of Flin Flon. Six years later, production began at Stall Lake Mine. [6] In the 1960s, Hudbay also gained a new major investor, Anglo America, a South African mining company. [7]
A set of mining claims were made, eventually leading to the establishment of Britannia Mining and Smelting Company, [1] which included claims for mines at four sites named Bluff, Empress, Fairview, and Jane. [1] Britannia Mines began mining copper ore from Mount Sheer and the surrounding area on the eastern shore of Howe Sound in 1903. [2]
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 mi
Britannia Mining and Smelting Co. Ltd. (1904–1963) Anaconda (1963–1974) 1904–1974 Now the Britannia Mine Museum; often used as film set [6] ... New Afton mine:
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.
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 ...
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] Cassidy: Granby Company Coal mining: Clayburn: 1905 Vancouver Fireclay Company Brickmaking: Abandoned Coalmont: 1911 Columbia ...
Holden, Washington, built by the Howe Sound Mining Company, which also owned Britannia Beach; once the most productive copper mine in the U.S., the mine closed in 1957 and it and the townsite were sold to a unit of the Lutheran church for $1 in the 1950s; now run as a Christian retreat center