Posts tagged with ‘mining’ (4)
Yukon Conservation Society Executive Director Karen Baltgailis canoeing down the Wind River with Mike Dehn, the former CPAWS Yukon executive director. Photo: J. Pangman
The Government of Yukon is holding public consultations on its land-use plans for the Peel watershed as the debate continues over how much of the pristine land should be available for industrial development.
The Yukon government manages more than 97 per cent of the Peel watershed, but four First Nations from the Yukon and the Northwest Territories also control regions of the Peel, an area encompassing 67,000 square kilometres.
The Peel Watershed Planning Commission released its final recommended ...
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A high pressure water hose known as a monitor is fired at the gravel banks to loosen up the gold and wash it down into the creek. The water pressure is so powerful that when the water hits the gravel 100 metres away it send rocks flying! It literally blasts the side of the hill away, revealing the gold.
The year was 1962. The sickness struck shortly after my mother bought me a book on the Klondike gold rush. I was 10 years old. The symptoms were subtle, but persistent and long-lasting. At first, my mother thought it comical, then refused to call a doctor and finally said, “You’ll get over it.”
She was wrong.
My disease? “Klondicitis.”
In 1897-8 it swept the world, infecting up to a million people. The effects proved immediate. People started digging holes everywhere, even in city streets. ...
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Yesterday I drove through the White Pass where Klondike miners carried a ton of gear to get to the Yukon River headwaters. It is unbelievably rugged territory. No wonder so many miners turned back when they saw it. I also took the White Pass & Yukon Route historical railway from Skagway to the top of the White Pass. Amazing!
We passed through Dead Horse Gulch, a plunging chasm that drops about 300 metres to the bottom. During the gold rush, so many horses fell over the edge that it was named ...
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Posted by Samia Madwar
on Thursday, March 01, 2012
More geological maps and archived data are needed to get the most out of Canada’s mining potential, says James Franklin of the Geological Survey of Canada and Franklin Geosciences Ltd. At a breakfast lecture held by the Partnership Group for Science and Engineering in Ottawa on Thursday, Franklin said Canada is not investing nearly enough in its mining industry. Australia, which has a similar wealth of mining resources, invests up to five times more in mining research.
Much of Canada’s ...
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