Vancouver Island Mining History #randomfacts

“You lift 16 tons, whad ya get? Another day older and deeper in debt, saint Peter don’t you call me cause I can’t go, I owe my soul to the company store.”

1849 to the present? Thats over 150 years of mining. How much of that mining was done vertically, and how much laterally, I wonder. If mostly vertical, the mines must be deep beyond imagining