Bullion

BULLION, at Dancing Bill's Gulch, 62 km northeast of WILLIAMS LAKE on the road to LIKELY, was one of the world's largest hydraulic MINING sites. From 1892 to 1898 John Hobson and the CPR-controlled Cariboo Hydraulic Mining Co used high-pressure monitors to recover GOLD worth $1.25 million. Later large-scale operations, which ceased in 1942, diverted water from distant lakes and created the vast man-made pit that exists today. A tiny settlement nearby is known as Hydraulic. Independent...

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