Discovery and Source Labradorite is a mineral which was first discovered on Paul’s Island in Labrador, Northeast Canada. It has been known by Inuits native to this area for millennia, and more recently found by Moravian missionaries in the late 18th Century. Other deposits of the mineral have been found in Newfoundland, as […]
Canada mining
Gold Mining in The Yukon Territory
August 16, 1896 marked the first major discovery of gold in the Klondike after a man known as Skookum Jim Mason together with his cousin, Dawson Charlie, and their relatives found gold in Rabbit Creek. The area was renamed Bonanza Creek as millions of dollars of gold were mined. It was the precious yellow metal […]