The Mines
The Record, Mine by Mine
Every British Columbia mine Frank has filmed gets a record: the province’s own numbers, the names it went by, the years it worked, the story, and the film. Kept together, in one place.
3 mines on record, and more being written.
Browse by Region
The Index
Every Mine on Record
Nothing on record matches that yet.
Try the camp or the region, or the MINFILE number. Know a mine that belongs here? Write to Frank →
- Anyox North Coast · Copper · Silver · Gold · Anyox Camp Worked 1914–1935
- Phoenix Boundary Country · Copper · Gold · Silver · Phoenix Camp Worked 1900–1919, open pit 1959–78
- Yankee Boy Boundary Country · Gold · Silver · Lead · Copper · Zinc · Hardy Mountain Camp Shipped ore 1899–1942
Do Not Do What Frank Does
Never go into an abandoned mine. Abandoned mines are dangerous: bad air that gives no warning, rotten timber, hidden shafts under loose ground, rock that fails without a sound. Frank has years of experience and proper rope equipment, and it is still dangerous work. The films are the way in.
And one rule as firm as the first: these places, and everything left in them, are history. Take nothing, damage nothing, leave every site exactly as you found it.
The official figures in each record come from the BC Geological Survey’s MINFILE database, under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia. The rest comes from Frank’s films, the provincial Annual Reports, and the people who write in. These records name camps and regions only, never where a working is.
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 and mine pages — and that’s it.
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