Tag Archive: Mining


Kamloops Wildlife Park

Enterprising non profits seminar brought different groups to Merritt this week. File Photo KDG

New Gold and New Afton mines are sponsoring a weekend at the Kamloops Wildlife Park at Easter this year. Including rides on its scale train, chocolate egg hunt and Chris the Clown.

The mining company operates a mine 10 kilometers west of Kamloops, and is operating 5 mines  around the world. It’s  New Afton project is an underground caving operation.

The Easter event requires an admission. 9:30 -4PM daily, wildlife park members are free.

Meet and interact with the resident critters of Kamloops Wildlife Park. Since its opening in 1966, the small zoo has cared for and rehabilitated native British Columbian animals who are injured or orphaned. See more than 65 species of animals and birds that inhabit the wildlife park, including predatory birds, cougars, deer, moose, grizzlies, and the elusive Kermode bear. Take a guided tour to learn interesting trivia about the wildlife and hear stories about the zoo’s residents. Quickly create a custom-made using our trip planner.

Source KWP Kamloops Wildlife Park

 

The BC mining industry has a long history of support for family and community events and facilities.

Highland Valley copper

Voght street Office of a local mine getting benefit  from new Hydro infrastructure. File Photo KDG

On this Day: March 13th 2003

The Journal Nature features 350 thousand year old footprints found in Italy.

Tailing ponds

 

The February 20th speaker at the Nicola Naturalists is Richard Doucette. Richard is a official of Tech/ Highland Valley Copper and his presentation is “reclamation of a Tailing pond”

The Nicola naturalists have their presentations in the Lecture Theater at the local Community college NVIT on Belshaw avenue Merritt. They are member and invitee driven but they post ” everyone welcome membership or donation requested.”

Their website is  Http://www.nicolanaturalists.ca/  they are a member of the BC naturalists.

Today in History: February 13th 1931

New Delhi becomes the capital of India

wreath walk

The Catholic Women’s League is sponsoring a craft sale and wreath walk at the Merritt Civic Center, Saturday 24th: 10 till 2.

Today in history: November 19, 2010

Twenty nine people die in four explosions at Pike’s River in New Zealand, the country’s worst mining accident since 1914.

old mine

 

This sheve wheel likely sat on top a mine head frame at one time and is now an object of interest in someones yard.

I drilled at a place called mill creek some years ago and there was a flooded shaft with a wooded head frame on it that this would be right at home with. There were lots of these glory holes about in the last century great depression era.

Today in History, January 26th 1992

Boris Yeltsin announces that the Soviets would no longer target American cities with nuclear weapons.