The Mines

The record, mine by mine

Every British Columbia mine Frank films gets a page: the official record, the story, the numbers, and the footage — kept together for good.

— mines on record · the archive grows monthly

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Latest records

New on the record

Phoenix

The highest city in British Columbia — 1,500 people, twenty saloons, four banks and a skating rink — and the mine that built it, emptied it, and finally came back to swallow it whole.

The Index

Every mine on record

Visiting the area? Old workings are deadly, and most sit on private or unstable ground — Exploring Abandoned Mines goes where no visitor can.

Records built on BC Geological Survey MINFILE data, Frank’s footage, and the provincial Annual Reports — suggest a mine →

Letters from a Retired Madman

Come along. One photograph. One story. Once a month.

That’s the whole deal. Frank picks one photograph out of the archive, tells you the story of the day it was taken, and signs off until next month. A short P.S. points to whatever’s new — films, mine pages, the museum — and that’s it.

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