Meldrum Point

Meldrum Point (53˚06'00" 128˚31'00" N side of Khutze Inlet, SE of Butedale and E of Princess Royal I). Prospector Charles William Meldrum (1862–1932), from St Lin, Que, discovered the Western Copper ore body E of the head of Khutze Inlet in the early 1900s and staked a number of claims there in 1908. The claims were seriously investigated in the late 1920s by the Detroit Mining Co, which built an aerial tramway from the minesite to the valley bottom and a railway out to salt water, but the...

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