Myvideo

Guest

Login

Huge Mine Under Old Ghost City, Dynamite, Ore Carts And Miners Graffiti In The Gold Drop Mine

Uploaded By: Myvideo
1 view
0
0 votes
0

Welcome back to part 2, if you haven’t seen part 1 we invite you to check it out so you can get up to speed on how we got to this point. We’re joining Frank and Sharon from Exploring Abandoned Mines and are deep underground in the Gold Drop Mine. This explore was definitely one of our favourites as we had the opportunity to see some amazing artifacts we’ve never seen before and are grateful to have had the opportunity. Citizens of Phoenix once proclaimed their community was the highest city in Canada. For a while, in the early part of the 20th century it was a booming copper mining community on top of a mountain of copper. It once bustled with up to 4000 copper crazy citizens and had 20 hotels and saloons, gambling casinos, four churches, an impressive city hall, a covered skating rink, hospital, brewery, school, electric power company, telephone exchanges and even an opera house. The copper mine at Phoenix, owned by the Granby Company employed 1000 miners and when operations closed on June 14, 1919 it

Share with your friends

Link:

Embed:

Video Size:

Custom size:

x

Add to Playlist:

Favorites
My Playlist
Watch Later