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2020 – BC-AB Road Trip – 130 of 214 – Kimberly, BC – 1 of 17 – City Centre Gazebo
Image by Ted’s photos – For Me & You
Betty Buick is going to have start breaking the speed limit. Too many places to visit yet and we are leaving for Mexico 07 November so a crush of photos is coming.
Betty brought us to the lovely alpine city of Kimberly BC. Hadn’t been here for decades.
This is the gazebo meeting point at the junction of two Kimberly downtown pedestrian only streets – how civilized is that!
The gazebo appears to be a popular chat and chew hub.
Kimberley’s story begins in 1891 with the discovery of Galena at the North Star Mine – now the location of the popular Kimberley Alpine Resort.
A year later, four prospectors were drawn to the area to ultimately discover one of the greatest lead-zinc mines in the world. Walter Burchett, EC Smith, John Cleaver and Pat Sullivan arrived at the base of the North Star Mountain only to realize that the entire hillside had been staked – undaunted, they crossed Mark Creek to explore what is now called Sullivan Mountain.
There they found ore and staked three claims. In 1896 Burchett, Smith, and Cleaver formed the Sullivan Group Mining Co. named in memory of Pat Sullivan, who died in a cave-in at a mine in Idaho.
A small settlement called Mark Creek Crossing rose on the heels of the Sullivan Mine’s growth. In 1896 the settlement’s name was changed to Kimberley in expectation that the Sullivan Mine’s lead, silver and zinc deposits would be as rich as the diamond mines of Kimberley, South Africa.
The first shipments of ore to the smelters in Nelson and Trail began in 1900. A smelter was constructed in Marysville in 1903 and operated until 1907.
The ore from the Sullivan mine was very complex and difficult to refine, but researchers at the Trail smelter developed a successful floatation process.
Large-scale production of the ore started in 1923, following the takeover of the mine in 1910 by the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company Ltd. (Cominco).
Cominco went on to construct a Concentrator at Chapman Camp in 1922 and a Fertilizer Plant in 1951.
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