The Bullion Pit
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The history of the largest placer mine in the world here in BC. The Bullion Pit.
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Water, Gold and Obscurity: British Columbia’s Bullion Pit.
This is a Ecological Report on the Bullion Pit 
The Bullion Pit, however, is, though impressive, far from lovely. Or perhaps it does have beauty, coming from its starkness; like some other postindustrial landscapes, it is dramatically impressive rather than conventionally pretty. It is a huge scar in the earth, a chasm, 120 metres (400 feet) or so in depth, twice that in width, and about 1.6 kilometre long, the result of what was once (another superlative) proclaimed to be the largest hydraulic placer mine in the world. In all, some 200 million tonnes (220 million tons) of material were washed away to create it..
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