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<Reply # 40 on 9/8/2009 3:44 AM >
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I'm not sure if they were the Saltpeter mines... They didn't go too deep. Only maybe 100 feet tops. They were level the whole way, too. Just some small tunnels on a hill in Bluewater.
If there's another mine other than that one I'd love to find it!
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That's the only mine on Bowen island, and you found it. It was indeed a saltpeter mine for making dynamite.
I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me, and it'll happen to you, too! |
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<Reply # 41 on 9/8/2009 5:18 AM >
| | | | The Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources reports 3 mines on Bowen, however 2 of them are basically just gravel pits.
092GSW091 which is closed and named "Bowen Island" is sand/gravel
092GSW092 named "Proudlock" is sand/gravel/topsoil
I think the one you are referring to is 092GSW004 which is named "BOWENA, EMERALD, LORRAINE, SNUG COVE" but it is said to be a polymetal mine producing gold, copper, and silver.
The property is located on the southeastern portion of Bowen Island, between Snug Cove and Seymour Bay. The property is underlain by metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks of the pre-Jurassic Bowen Island Group. These rocks consist mainly of dark green andesites, white to light grey and purple cherty tuffs with minor quartzite, porphyry and limestone. Dioritic rocks of the Jurassic to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex occupy the southern portion of the claim group.
Minor pyrrhotite and pyrite are common throughout much of the rock. Copper mineralization is present in four zones, occurring in three areas in silicified and brecciated shear zones and in one area with massive magnetite and pyrrhotite. The shear zones strike 015 degrees and dip steeply to the southeast.
In 1913, two main mineralized zones were developed on the Emerald group. Mineralization consisted primarily of pyrite and chalcopyrite with minor associated malachite and azurite. At the Adit zone, an adit was driven for about 70 metres following the strike of a shear zone, which hosted copper mineralization, averaging between 2.4 to 3.0 metres in width. About 30 metres to the southwest, a 9.2 metre shaft was sunk on another similar mineralized zone.
In 1917, a trial shipment of about 9 tonnes of sorted ore assayed 3.38 per cent copper, 39.77 grams per tonne silver and 4.11 grams per tonne gold (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1917, page 297). In 1918, a 100 tonne mill was erected but other than trial runs, no production was recorded.
Production recorded for the Bowena (Emerald and Snug Cove groups), amounts to 54 tonnes of ore shipped in 1907 which produced 5,754 grams of silver and 2,268 kilograms of copper.
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I find no reference to potassium nitrate..... is it near where "Bowena" is shown on that image?
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SteamPunk
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<Reply # 42 on 9/8/2009 7:51 AM >
| | | | Posted by Clutchy
The Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources reports 3 mines on Bowen, however 2 of them are basically just gravel pits.
092GSW091 which is closed and named "Bowen Island" is sand/gravel
092GSW092 named "Proudlock" is sand/gravel/topsoil
I think the one you are referring to is 092GSW004 which is named "BOWENA, EMERALD, LORRAINE, SNUG COVE" but it is said to be a polymetal mine producing gold, copper, and silver.
I find no reference to potassium nitrate..... is it near where "Bowena" is shown on that image?
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The highways mines don't count. The mine we mentioned is not (oddly enough)on the Minfile list. Bowena is not the mine we are talking about, and is new news to me. I'll def need to check that one out! The salt peter mine is on the far side of the island, to the south west, near explosives creek.
I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me, and it'll happen to you, too! |
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<Reply # 43 on 9/8/2009 8:17 AM >
|  | | | Posted by SteamPunk
That's the only mine on Bowen island, and you found it. It was indeed a saltpeter mine for making dynamite.
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In Bluewater (south west part of the island) there's three mines.
Just today I found the saltpeter one you were talking about, as it had the one shaft down that you mentioned. Nice little tunnel. With that one downwards shaft completely filled with water, but it went on for a while. At the end there were some clothes and stuff which was weird and a little eerie...
But there's two smaller "mines" that are much easier to find in the area. One only goes in maybe 20 feet, so it's more like a hole in the rock, the other goes in more and branches in two different directions, more fun. Neither of them were the saltpeter mine you mentioned, as we just found it today.
I've never heard of that Bowena mine either. Sounds like it could be interesting.
I'll need to go find it!
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<Reply # 44 on 9/8/2009 11:21 PM >
| | | | Sounds like there is a few mines on the island that are not on the Minfile. I'll need to do more exploring around bluewater myself now that i know there is more. Some old rockhound told me the salt peter mine was the only one.
I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me, and it'll happen to you, too! |
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Clutchy
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<Reply # 45 on 9/9/2009 12:33 AM >
| | | | I have found a couple mines in various places in BC that are not listed in the minfile db. It seems that either they were never registered or they have not had any further claims or explorations. Most mines that are prior to around 1930 have all had more recent drilling etc which then brings it to the attention of the ministry. I guess a long time ago, if you didnt want to register, who's to know you are actually mining, especially in an underpopulated area.
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Clutchy
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<Reply # 46 on 9/9/2009 6:59 AM >
| | | | I found one more that is listed on Minfile as a "showing"
http://minfile.gov...minfilno=092GSW006
Two shafts were sunk on a small copper prospect in Gardner Bay, on the west side of Bowen Island. The main shaft is reported to have intersected a thin seam of bornite along a shear zone in metavolcanic rocks of the pre-Jurassic Bowen Island Group. The shaft was reported to be about 23 metres deep and is now flooded. The reported mineral- ized showing has not been verified.
A limited amount of ore was taken, and shipped, from a stope 9 metres long (Property File - Brewer, M. 1907). |
Perhaps this is what Gimpster came across.....
Roughly around where i placed the pin "Islander"?
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<Reply # 47 on 9/9/2009 7:37 AM >
| | | | If you go looking for the Bowena site, this pdf may be helpful as it shows the location of at least 2 adits. The last 2 pages are particularily helpful.
http://aris.empr.g...sReports/01175.PDF
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<Reply # 48 on 10/13/2009 10:31 PM >
| | | | So has anyone found these mines yet? Worth checking out?
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<Reply # 49 on 10/15/2009 1:01 PM >
| | | | ^No, but I jumped the fence at the Vancouver Golf and Country Club tonight. I must still be bored if exploring a golf course (and one that I've played on to boot) was the best I've done in a while.
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<Reply # 50 on 6/26/2010 1:34 AM >
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Is that near still creek?
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<Reply # 51 on 7/12/2010 8:24 PM >
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Is that near still creek?
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i too would like to know
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