“Mining is the art of exploiting mineral deposits at a profit. An unprofitable mine is fit only for the sepulcher of a dead mule.”
T.A. RickardBoth the American and Canadian Rocky Mountains have history with mining due to the mineral resources abundance in this mountainous zone. The Colorado Mineral Belt is rich with ore minerals deposits and it extends from the north-east to the south-west through the Rocky Mountains. Some of the many minerals that can be found there are gold, silver, lead and zinc.
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| Colorado Mineral Belt Credit: http://www.colorado.edu/ |
In Catalina Island there was a brief period of mining activity which lasted from the late 1800s to beginning of the 1900s. Many miners in the early years of the mining period came to the island to extract gold and silver from the canyons of northern Catalina. The mining operations looked promising at the beginning but it was doomed to fail specially when the prices of ore fell in 1927. Another mining attempt resumed in Catalina to extract zinc, silver and lead from the island's mountains but it didn't generate enough profit and it halted couple of years later.
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| Catalina's Miners Credit: http://www.thecatalinaislander.com/article/ |
