Forgotten documents on a fallen aviatorHow the archives of Placer Dome supplied a clue to solving the mystery of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance

How the archives of Placer Dome supplied a clue to solving the mystery of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance

By Nean Allman

January 27, 2020

The mystery of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance has yet to be solved. Courtesy of the US Library of Congress.

More than 50 years after the disappearance of a plane on a pioneering round-the-world journey, a file discovered in 1991 in the basement storage area of the Vancouver office of mining giant Placer Dome Inc. shed some light on the doomed flight.

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