Copper

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...

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...

Collecting for Kids - Where to Start?

August 1, 2013 Whether they want to collect minerals and fossils, Kinder Egg toys, shells, books, Lego or Barbie dolls (the list is endless), colle...

Edible Gold - A Glamorous Treat or A Frivolous Act?

July 6, 2013 Gold is biologically inert and one of the least reactive chemical elements (that is solid under standard conditions). In other words, ...

How The Britannia Mine Started - Part 1

June 23, 2013 When most people drive by Britannia Beach today they have little sense of how massive the Britannia Mine was.  At the height of produ...