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For the past 150 years, mining has been an important industry in
British Columbia. During that time, the regulations and practices
surrounding this industry have evolved and improved immensely. In May 2000
the Historic Sites Project was initiated by the Reclamation Section of the
Mining Division to begin building an inventory of Historic mine sites
around the province. The purpose of this program was to identify high
priority sites where environmental and health concerns exist. The Historic
Mines Atlas is an interactive map that presents this information through a
variety of data layers
and
displays over 1100 past producing mines. The Atlas is based on a 125-page report on a scoping study of the 1887
historic mines in BC
(Open File 2003-3).
The Historic Mines Atlas is a joint publication of Environment Canada,
Pacific and Yukon Region, Environmental Protection Branch and BC
Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources.
View Historic Mines Atlas on MapPlace
Login UserName: VIEW; Password: VIEW
Quick Start-Up to the BC Historic Mines Atlas:
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To view the Historic
Mines Atlas, you must download the Autodesk MapGuide Viewer
(Version 6.5).
Access the
Autodesk MapGuide web site to download the viewer through
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=9454886&linkID=9242099.
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Click the image above.
The map is also Map No. 58 in
Complete Table
of Maps.
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The screen, ’Welcome to
the British Columbia Historic Mines Atlas’ has two buttons.
The Atlas Description button provides a link to the mines
atlas 37-page manual, in .PDF
form. The Launch Atlas button is to enter the atlas.
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Enter the atlas. Any
user may do so by entering VIEW as a UserName, and VIEW as
the Password. Only Environment Canada and BC Ministry of
Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources staff are able to post
data onto the atlas (or edit or delete data) in the
‘environmental data’ layer, denoted by the green flags.
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If you have
successfully downloaded the software, you will see the atlas
home page with ‘layers’ on the left, and a small-scale map
of BC on the right. The map has small green flags. The large
brown buttons on the toolbar on the upper right include
‘Options’ which opens another toolbar. One of these will
expand all map layer group, which is necessary to see contours,
roads and other features. Note that some features will not
appear until the scale is very large, e.g. larger than
1:100,000, or as large as 1:20,000.
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For a quick view of the
atlas’s potential, find the ‘zoom go to’ button (upper left,
a magnifying glass with an arrow). Under Category, 1. Mine
-> Mine Name, enter
Hidden Creek (aka Anyox) and for map width, enter 10 (10
km), which will show the mine site at a scale of between
1:50,000 and
1:75,000. The features imbedded in the map of this site
include water quality and shellfish tissue sampling results,
photographs and written reports. Here, as for anywhere within
BC, map layers for contours, roads, towns, streams and other
geographic and cultural features can be turned on or off
using the menu on the left. See the
Users Manual Section 2.11, page 29 on Viewing Reports. Printing the maps in colour is
possible at any scale.
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Downloadable Datasets:
References:
| Barazzuol,
Lisa N.
and Stewart, Gregg G.
(2003):
Historic Mines of British Columbia, Ministry of
Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources,
Open File 2003-03,
142 pp.
British Columbia Historic and Operating Mines (Version 2.01)
Virtual Atlas, March 2004, revised May 2007; prepared for:
Environment Canada Pacific and Yukon Region Environmental
Protection Branch and BC Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum
Resources; prepared by Suzanne Richer, Community Mapping
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Contacts and Notes:
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For further information contact: |
Robert McCandless
Environment Canada
Pacific and Yukon Region
604.666.2199
rob.mccandless@ec.gc.ca |
Greg Stewart
Ministry of Agriculture and Lands
Crown Contaminated Sites Branch
250.387.1528
Gregg.Stewart@gov.bc.ca |
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This page was last updated
December 03, 2007.
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