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| Title: | Following the Boulder Train
: Travels with Prospectors & Rock Doctors |
| Author: | Tomy Henry |
| ISBN: | 1550173774 : 9781550173772 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 192 |
| Weight: | .422 Kg. |
| Published: | Harbour Publishing - October 2006 |
| List Price: | 23.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | British Columbia: Social & cultural history: Mining industry |
Mining is BC's second largest industry but you'd never know it to visit any BC bookstore. Books on logging, fishing, and tourism are there in abundance, but the subject of mining is practically untouched. As Tom Henry proves beyond a doubt in this lively volume, it is not for any lack of wonderful stories about the men and women who have been bitten by the rock-chipping bug over the years. Henry actually took a course in exploration geology and experienced first hand the unique way of looking at the world peculiar to mineral hunters. Every rock is an 'outcrop' with a story to tell about the forces that formed the local landscape, and what mineral treasures may be hidden beneath. Following the Boulder Train is full of remarkable life histories of legendary prospectors who made fortunes but couldn't take enough time away from bushwhacking to enjoy them, and of others who enjoyed them too much, making and losing so many fortunes they can't remember them all. The book offers memorable insights into the driven, obsessed world of mineral exploration and the mining industry in BC.
Introduction; A Trip North; Round-up; Prospecting School; North Again.
