20 people have lost their lives searching for what mine, Lost McLeod Mine or Northland Pyrite Mine?
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Lost McLeod Mine Lost McLeod Mine is a legend of a lost mine in the Northwest Territories of Canada. The story has been featured in many books and magazines. The events in the legend have led to geographic locations in the Northwest Territories being named Headless Valley and Headless Creek located in Nahanni National Park Reserve. A creek called Sheep Creek was renamed McCleod Creek in honour of the Mcleod Brothers. 20 people have lost their lives searching for The Lost McLeod Mine.
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Northland Pyrite Mine The Northland Pyrite Mine, also known as James Lake Mine, Rib Lake Mine, Harris Mine or simply Northland Mine, is an abandoned underground mine in Northeastern Ontario, Canada, located on the southwestern shore of James Lake in Best Township of Temagami. It was operated by the Northland Mining Company during the early 1900s with the construction of a 91 m shaft and many open-cuts north of the shaft. Minerals present at the mine include chalcopyrite, pyrite and pyrrhotite, deposited in Precambrian volcanic rock of the Canadian Shield.
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Mount Morgan Mine Mount Morgan Mine was a copper, gold and silver mine in Queensland, Australia. Mining began at Mount Morgan in 1882 and continued until 1981.
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Coal Creek, British Columbia Coal Creek is a ghost town near Fernie, British Columbia, Canada. During the 1950s, residents left the town due to the closure of a mine. Some parts of the town remain, but most have been overtaken by forest. On May 22, 1902, an explosion in a mine left 128 dead in one of the worst mining disasters in Canadian history.
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Mount Brown (South Australia) Mount Brown is a mountain in the Australian state of South Australia located in the Flinders Ranges about 20 km east of the city of Port Augusta.
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Cannington Mine The Cannington Silver and Lead Mine is an Australian underground mine located in north-west Queensland, in the Shire of McKinlay, about 200 km southeast of Mount Isa. The deposit was discovered by Broken Hill Proprietary Company (BHP) in 1990. Although sitework and underground mining began in 1997, full production was not achieved until early 1999, with 1.5 million tons of ore processed in 1999. Production since has reached 3 million tons of ore per year. s of 2010 it was the largest and lowest cost silver and lead mine in the world. The expected life of the Cannington mine is 25 years. On August 19, 2014, the mine's owner BHP Billiton announced it was splitting the company in two. A newly formed entity called South32 is to house BHP Billiton's non-core businesses including the Cannington Mine. South32 is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (under the code S32), with a secondary listing in Johannesburg.
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Big Bell Gold Mine The Big Bell Gold Mine is a gold mine located at Big Bell, 24 km north-west of Cue, Western Australia. The mine was owned and operated by Harmony Gold at the time of its closure in June 2003, having produced 2.6 million ounces of gold during its lifetime, but was sold to Aragon Resources Limited in January 2010.
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2013 Machang Coal Mine outburst The 2013 Machang Coal Mine outburst occurred in Machang Coal Mine (马场煤矿) in Shuicheng County, Guizhou, China. A total of 25 people lost their lives in the accident.
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North Mount Lyell North Mount Lyell was the name of a mine, mining company, locality (sometimes as North Lyell) and former railway north of Gormanston on the southern slopes of Mount Lyell in the West Coast Range on the West Coast of Tasmania, and on to the ridge between Mount Lyell and Mount Owen.
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Donnelly's Creek Donnelly's Creek was a gold rush town located in the mountains of Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, approximately 40 kilometres north of Walhalla. In its heyday it was home to over 1,200 miners and other residents. Today the town is deserted; however, it still attracts many four-wheel-drive and mining enthusiasts.
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Solitaire Meissmer disappearance The disappearance of Solitaire Meissmer involved a widespread and much-publicised search between 2004 and 2006 in the Thai province of Phang Nga in north Phuket, for a child victim (born in early 2001) of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.
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Long Meg Mine Long Meg Mine is a disused gypsum mine just north of Little Salkeld, Cumbria in the area known as Cave Wood Valley. It was operated between 1880 and 1976.
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McClean Lake mine The McClean Lake mine is a uranium mine and milling operation located west of Wollaston Lake, about 700 kilometres north of Saskatoon, in the Athabasca Basin region of Saskatchewan, Canada. The McClean ore body was discovered in 1979, followed by the discovery of the JEB ore body in 1982. From 1985 to 1990, a cluster of deposits named Sue A, Sue B and Sue C were discovered.
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McLeod Lake McLeod Lake is an unincorporated community located on Highway 97 in northern British Columbia, Canada, 140 km north of Prince George. It is notable for being the first continuously inhabited European settlement established west of the Rocky Mountains in present-day Canada.
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Century Mine Century Mine is a large open cut zinc, lead and silver mine 250 km north northwest of Mount Isa in North West Queensland, Australia. It was built on Waanyi land. It is Australia’s largest open pit zinc mine. The mine was owned by Pasminco, then Zinifex, then OZ Minerals and then sold to MMG Century which belongs to Minmetals Resources.
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Barton Mine Barton Mine, also known as Net Lake Mine, is an abandoned surface and underground mine in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is located about 0.50 km north of the Temagami Arena in Temagami North and just east of the Ontario Northland Railway in northwestern Strathy Township. Dating back to the early 1900s, it is one of the oldest mines in Temagami. Barton was the site of a fire in the early 1900s, after which it never had active mining again.
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Mount Keith Mine Mount Keith Mine is an open pit nickel mine in Western Australia. It is operated by BHP. The site's closest landmark is the town of Wiluna, 85 km to the north.
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Lightning Ridge, New South Wales Lightning Ridge is a town in north-western New South Wales, Australia, in Walgett Shire, near the southern border of Queensland, about six kilometres east of the Castlereagh Highway, and is served in commercial activities by the town of Walgett, some 75 km to the south. Lightning Ridge is a flourishing tourist town with numerous caravan (camper-trailer) and camping parks, the previously very rustic Diggers' Rest pub (which has burned down for the third time ) and a well-appointed bowling club with its eight artificial-grass bowling greens. Temperatures in summer can reach into the high 40s Celsius, but below ground the temperature remains continually at around 22 degrees, year round . The Lightning Ridge area is a world-renowned centre of the mining of black opals and other opal gemstones. Lightning Ridge has the largest known deposits of black opals in the world . The name Lightning Ridge is said to have originated when in the 1870s some passers by found the bodies of a farmer, his dog and 200 sheep which had been struck by lightning.
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N.W.T. Mining Heritage Society The N.W.T. Mining Heritage Society, in the Northwest Territories, Canada, was first formed in early 2000 as the Giant Mine Heritage Group to rescue items from the Giant Mine site after its owner, Royal Oak Mines Incorporated, went bankrupt.
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Lake Way mine The Lake Way mine is a large mine located in the western part of Australia in Western Australia. Lake Way represents one of the largest uranium reserves in Australia having estimated reserves of 20 million tonnes of ore grading 0.0055% uranium.
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Neil McLeod (police officer) Neil McLeod (c.1846 – 30 July 1890) was a Constable of the New Zealand Police. He was shot and killed while aboard the steamer "Minnie Casey" at Mangawhare Wharf (near Dargaville) by gum-digger Henry Funcke.
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1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera The most recent eruption of Mount Tarawera occurred in the early hours of 10 June 1886 in the North Island, New Zealand. It is the deadliest eruption in New Zealand since the arrival of Europeans. Up to 150 people, mostly Māori, were killed, and many settlements were destroyed or buried.