Mining Lore

Red Mountain RushThe Le Roi mine in British Columbia was a testament to the free-wheeling nature of mining during the gold rush in its early years

The Le Roi mine in British Columbia was a testament to the free-wheeling nature of mining during the gold rush in its early years

By Jen Glanville

March 16, 2020

The Le Roi mine would become the richest mine on the Red Mountain in British Columbia. Courtesy of the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy

By the 19th Century the mineral wealth of British Columbia’s Kootenay region was considered a good bet thanks to the historic prospecting done by the Hudson’s Bay. The region was too remote to make mining economically feasible, but the emergence of two transcontinental railways in the 1880s changed all of that. In a matter of years, the region was opened up, and prospectors were on the hunt for their own El Dorado of the north.

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