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Gold/Mining/Energy : Gold and Silver Juniors, Mid-tiers and Producers
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To: koan who wrote (19204)8/25/2006 11:18:43 PM
From: E. Charters  Read Replies (1) of 78411
 
Probably not.

There are in excess of 1500 adits, prospects, and mines with silver, silver lead-zinc between Spokane and Atlin. They were mostly in a book called (I am guessing here from memory) Silver Occurences and Small Mines of the Pacific North West.

You can travel back in logging roads and see adits perched 4500 feet up the side of a pyramid of rock with no documentation as to the history of it anywhere. I know of veins in the sides of hills 1500 feet long with adits and raises on them, with 30-60 opt silver.. and they languish in mining companies with incidentally brain dead management, who have no clue as to the value of the resource.. this is because there was no documentation on the resource ever.. they were run by sand hogs who just followed the vein and took the ore to a smelter in the area..

138 mines of this type employing about 3000 people directly were closed in the 1980's when the "progressive" people's party the NDP came to power. So few voters were affected or thot they were affected that it was a non issue for many years. You don't know what you got til its gone.. The reprecussions were reverbrating when I was in BC in the early 80's. The industry was still strong there with many suppliers on the coast. They are all gone now. A ghost of an industry. I estimate that between the denial of Cominco's requests for gov't co-operation in the restart of the Big Ledge and other government suppression, BC permanently lost 100,000 high paying jobs in mining and related industries. Once Neanderthaler, always Neanderthaler.

Of course the BCites do not have the monopoly on industrial Luddite stupidity. Variously Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Newfoundland and Ontario have made socialistic suppressive moves upon their mining industries, putting the most acquisitive and foot shooting Mongol or Latin government to positive shame.

EC<:-}
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