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drilling ltd.
ContraCt diamond drilling
With over 20 years in the drilling business
there is no job too big or too small.
Drills
- HeliPortable - Skid Mounted - underground
-Man Portable - track Mounted - deeP Hole
Other equipment
- dozerS
- SkidderS
- excavatorS
- Water truckS
- SeMi/loWbed
Find out what else we have to oFFer.
we guarantee you will be satisFied.
atlas drilling ltd.
746 carrier Street, kaMlooPS, bc v2H 1g2
PHone: 250.318.6339 Fax: 250.828.2627
atlasdrilling@shaw.ca
offices in canada and in new zealand
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mining operations in the region, before returning to Spokane
to found the Riblet Tramway Company. He constructed mining tramways in Canada, Alaska, the western United States and
South America. Riblet Tramway built its first chairlift for skiers
in 1938 at Mount Hood, Oregon, and went on to become the
largest supplier in the world, installing more than 400 systems
(including Hollyburn Mountain's in West Vancouver) as the
sport gained popularity.
It's not just in B.C. that ski resorts have a history rooted in
mining; in the western United States, resorts such as Telluride
(named after a whole species of gold- and silver-bearing minerals),
the appropriately named Copper Mountain and Silver Mountain
resorts, and many others all owe their access to early miners tunnelling under the future slopes.
Mining operations coexisting with ski resorts in British
Columbia is still not out of the question in the future; Thompson
Creek Metals' high-grade molybdenum deposit sits deep underneath Hudson Bay Mountain in Smithers. A higher-grade zone of
molybdenum is estimated to have measured and indicated mineral resources of 23 million tonnes grading 0.234 per cent Mo.
The deposit is estimated to host 117 million pounds of contained
molybdenum. Permitting and feasibility studies are currently on
hold due to low metal prices.
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Photographs : Rob McLeod ; Hamish Greig
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