by CoastView | Feb 27, 2023 | 2023, Best of 2023, British Columbia, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Mines, Natural History
Island Copper was an open pit mine located at the northern end of Vancouver Island on Rupert Inlet at the head of Quatsino Sound, about 4.6 miles (7.4 km) east of Coal Harbour and 8.5 miles (14 km) south of Port Hardy, British Columbia. The mine extracted a...
by CoastView | Feb 5, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Mines
Treadwell is a historical gold mine on the eastern coast of Douglas Island on Gastineau Channel, about 1.2 miles (1.9 km) southeast of the community of Douglas and 3 miles (4.8 km) southeast of Juneau, Alaska. It was named after John Treadwell who discovered the gold...
by CoastView | Jan 5, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Developments, Land Use, Mines
Red Dog is a zinc and lead mine about 46 miles (74 km) inland from the Chukchi Sea coast and connected by road to an export terminal, about 62 miles (100 km) northwest of Kotzebue and 16 miles (26 km) southeast of Kivalina, Alaska. This metal sulfide mine is the...
by CoastView | Dec 23, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Mines
The Ross Adams is a historical uranium-thorium mine in the Tongass National Forest, located on the southeastern slopes of Bokan Mountain near the southern end of Prince of Wales Island, approximately 33 miles (53 km) southeast of Hydaburg and 38 air miles (61 km)...
by CoastView | Dec 21, 2022 | 2022, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Mines, Rivers
Ocean Roar is a small group of buildings at the mouth of Walker Creek on Tomales Bay, and formerly a community on the North Pacific Coast Railroad, about 2.3 miles (3.7 km) southwest of Tomales and 16 miles (26 km) west of Petaluma, California. Walker Creek originates...
by CoastView | Oct 26, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Mines, Parks, Rivers
Rainbow Valley is a watershed between Rainbow Peak to the west and Indianhouse Mountain to the east, drained by Rainbow Creek that starts from snowfields at an elevation of 5,000 feet (1,526 m) on the southern flank of Suicide Peak and flows southwest for 3 miles (4.8...
