[LRflex] Re: Abandoned mine > David
- From: "Marc Dufour" <foto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 22:16:29 +0200
Thanks for this interesting information, and for your kind comment, David.
Marc
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De: leicareflex-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:leicareflex-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
En nombre de David Young
Enviado el: sábado, 21 de septiembre de 2013 21:59
Para: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Asunto: [LRflex] Re: Abandoned mine > Bill & Marc
Marc, Bill:
Rio Tinto has a small connection to our little town of Logan Lake, as well.
Although our local mine (now called Highland Valley Copper) was started in the
Late 1960s & 70s, as the Lornex, Bethlehem and
Himount Copper mines.
Eventually, all three were combined into Highland Valley Copper, by a joint
venture, owned by Vancouver's Teck Corp., Cominco, and
Rio Tinto.
in 2001, Teck purchased 100% of Cominco and. later, the shares of the mine
owned by Rio Tinto. Every tour (I was with one, last
Thursday) of the mine is told of Rio-Tinto's early involvement.
However, unlike the abandoned Rio Tinto mine that Marc photographed (great
series, btw, Marc!) Teck Corp., abandons nothing and
restores all disturbed land to either grasslands or forest.
David.
> Marc,
>
> Thank you very much.
>
>
> I have seen their name in the financial pages for years, with world
> wide operations, but I had no idea of their Spanish origins.
>
>
> I lived for years in California's Almaden Valley, a suburb of the city
> of San Jose, south of San Francisco, which was named for a famous
> quicksilver mining operation there during the California gold rush,
> and obviously named for the famous Almaden quicksilver mine in Spain.
>
>
> Very little of it remains of the town of New Almaden today, a few
> homes, horse farms, and a nice restaurant on the creek that runs
> through it; the mine shafts have been sealed for safety and a large
> area is now devoted to parkland. For more:
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Almaden#Conversion_from_mines_to_park
>
>
> Maybe some day the Rio Tinto site will become a park.
>
>
> Bill
>
> On Sep 21, 2013, at 9:48 AM, Marc Dufour <foto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Bill,
>
> The place is the first RioTinto mine, in the province of Huelva, in
> southern Spain. In this moment they still work in two great
> exploitations, Cerro Colorado and Cerro Salomon, near this abandoned
> one. The name RioTinto is the one of small river, which gave it to a
> little village, and later to the actual company. Marc De: leicareflex-
> bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:leicareflex-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] En
> nombre de William Abbott Enviado el: sábado, 21 de septiembre de 2013
> 0:12
> Para: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Asunto: [LRflex] Re: Abandoned mine
>
>
> Marc,
>
>
> I'm lost. Pray where is this mine?
>
>
> They certainly don't tidy up when they depart.
>
>
> Bill
>
>
> On Sep 20, 2013, at 3:04 PM, Marc Dufour <foto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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