A Silver Lining
The historic Dolly Varden silver camp
Gateway to Dolly Varden: The former boom town of Alice Arm | TOM SCHROETER Following a very rich silver discovery made in 1910, the remote Alice Arm area at the northeast end of Obser… Read More
Granite Creek Gold Rush
From boom to bust in the Similkameen
Granite Creek circa 1886. The cabin of Frenchy, a Chinese immigrant and well-known placer miner, is in the foreground. Placer gold was supposedly first discovered in the Similka… Read More
A Tale of Two Mines
Exploration, discovery, and development of Babine copper-gold deposits
Drill rig on the move, Copper Island, summer 1929. As early as 1898, pioneer prospectors trudged across the Bulkley Valley in west-central British Columbia. This group included… Read More
A Colourful Cast of Characters
Who were the early prospectors and miners in the Bulkley Valley and what was it like? Although many prospectors were mining and gold rush followers who had worked their various way… Read More
No Poor Man’s Country
A look back at prospecting and mining in the Smithers area
What a view: Atholl Sutherland Brown overlooking the Seven Sisters and Skeena River from near the Victoria mine, Hazelton. When the Collins Overland Telegraph crews came throug… Read More
Uranium City
The historic beaverlodge uranium rush led to the boom - and bust - of Saskatchewan's Uranium City
Before Uranium City, the Eldorado town site served the Beaverlodge staking rush and the early years of the uranium boom. Uranium became a strategically important commodity in 19… Read More
Gold Rush at Rock Creek
The boom and bust of rock creek and camp Mckinney
Gold panning on Rock Creek, home to a gold rush in 1860 The first gold discovery in British Columbia was made in 1854 along the Pend d’Oreille River and its tributaries in an area sout… Read More