Museum Musings

  • Apr 25, 2015

Kerosene Can Shingles

March 25, 2015 In the early years of the Britannia Mine, self-sustainability was a way of life. Not through concerns about climate change or our ec...

  • Jan 12, 2014

Beyond Britannia - John Wedderburn Dunbar Moodie

January 02, 2014 In 1910, Schley hired JWD Moodie to turn around the ailing Tintic Mine. In one year, Moodie was able to revamp its operations, tak...

  • Jan 02, 2014

Beyond Britannia - Sources and Further Reading

January 02, 2014 These brief introductions to five major figures in mining that are connected to Britannia is a great place to begin your own explo...

  • Jan 02, 2014

Beyond Britannia - Marcus Daly

January 02, 2014 The story of Marcus Daly captures both the wild successes the frontier granted a few as well as the realities of life for prospect...

  • Jan 02, 2014

Beyond Britannia - Grant B Schley

January 2, 2014  Grant B Schley was born in Chapenville New York in 1845. He began his career in finance at the age of 16 as a clerk. At the age of...

  • Jan 02, 2014

Beyond Britannia - George H. Robinson

January 02, 2014 Born in Ohio around 1850, George H. Robinson moved west in 1878 to work as an engineer for the Santa Fe Railway. By 1880 he was em...

  • Jan 02, 2014

Beyond Britannia - Fritz Heinze

January 02, 2014 Fritz Heinze arrived in Butte Montana in 1889 from Brooklyn, New York, where he worked as a surveyor for the Boston and Montana Co...

  • Jan 02, 2014

Beyond Britannia - Stories of People and Events that Shaped our Mine

January 2, 2014 For British Columbia, it was the fur trade, followed by the fisheries, and coal on Vancouver Island that sparked settlement along t...

  • Jul 06, 2013

Edible Gold - A Glamorous Treat or A Frivolous Act?

July 6, 2013 Gold is biologically inert and one of the least reactive chemical elements. In other words, you can eat pure gold and it won't do you ...