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Nickel Plate Mountain

Nickel Plate mountain, BC Canada.

 

Gold was found on Nickel Plate mountain in 1898. The ore was rich but it had to be extracted from the host rock by crushing and chemical treatment.

By 1903, men were digging the first of 120 kilometers of tunnels into the mountain and building a tramway and a 40 stamp mill. Men climbed the mountain each day to go to work.

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Uploaded on September 17, 2015
Taken on September 7, 2015