Page A10 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 40, 1993

The raw material for the ma-
jority of the material used in
building your home was fur-
nished by the mining industry.
It’s something to think about,
The foundation is probably
concrete (limestone, clay,
shale, gypsum and aggregate
mining).

The exterior walls may be
made of brick (clay mining) or
stone (dimension stone mini-
ng). -

The insulation in the walls
may be glass wool (silica, feld-
spar, and trona mining) or ex-
panded "vermiculite
(vermiculite mining).

The interior walls are usually
wallboard (gypsum mining).
The roof is covered with
asphalt shingles, the filler in
the shingles is from a varicty
of coloured silicate’ minerals
from mining.

Your fireplace is probably of
brick or stone; lined with a
steel bax (iron ore mining).
Your sewer piping is made of
clay or iron pipe (clay mining

water pipe is of iron or copper
pipe (iron ore mining and cop-

per mining).

copper or aluminum (copper
mining or bauxite mining).
‘Your. sanitary facilities are
made of porcelain (clay mini-
ng).

Your plumbing fixtures are
made of brass (copper and Zinc

{nickel and chrome mining).
Your gutters of galvanized
steel (iron ore mining and zinc
mining).

The pain is manufactured
with mineral fillers and pig-
ments (from minerals oblained
by mining).

Your windows. are made of
glass (trona, silica sand, and
feldspar mining).

or iron ore mining), Your .

Your electrical wiring is of |

mining), or stainless steel’

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J IME IN IIN CS WIE ES ama ES.d. |

THAT’S GOLD bearing ore flowing through the pro-
cessing plant of the Snip gold mine in the Iskut Valley.
The mine is the only one operating at the moment in

the Iskut but could have a neighbour if plans by
Skyline Gold result in enough ore to justify an. opera-
tion.

Mining industry
faces a challenge

beginning.
Governments work on behalf of
‘industry will match industry’s
own work highly focussed on the
most productive areas and initia-
tives — targeted Strategically at
‘replacing reserves, maintaining
employment and profits, and
laying the groundwork for the

long term.

world class, and not only do they
look alter provincial uceds, they
compete effectively to serve the
global mining community.

* The B,C.. mineral workforce
is highty skilled, highly produc-
tive and highly innovative.

* Further, fam proud to tell the
world that B,C, wants invest-
ments. in mineral development are
based on the values and princi- _
ples of sustainable development. ©‘ lunar calendar, we have just en-

For us the adjustment of the — tered the year of the rooster.
mineral sector to new internation- Roosters are symbols of vitality
al, social and fiscal reality is un- and obstinacy, and for them, the
derway, and a new confidence is sun will always th rise carly.

See

We are @ pleased to join in this

Salute To Mining in B.C.

and we are proud to be a part of
service industry for the northwest

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- SNIP GOLD MINE - ISKUT RIVER, B.C.

904-1055 Dunsmuir Street oY
Vancouver; B. C.. 7X. 104 hee
Phone: (604): 681- “2253 foes
Fax: (604) 681 “0357

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| PREMIER GOLD PROJECT
P.O. Box 476
Stewart, B.C. VOT 1WO
Phone: (604) 636-2206.
Fax: (604) 636-9134.

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