February 25, 2008 - You can now watch "A Foggy Sunday Morning", a timelapse video just uploaded to YouTube - made from a four-hour stream of video from one of the Terrace webcams.
September 23, 2007 - Emma, the Holloway Bar Pump Queenwas overhauled over the summer and now has a new powerplant with three times the pumping power to feed The Wizard. Read all about Scott's fabrication adventure on the Pictures and Stories page...
August 16, 2007 - "Painting the Bus" has just been uploaded to the Multimedia and Time Lapse video pages. We finally got tired of the crappy colour on the old Holloway Bar school bus so decided a paint job was in order. Have you ever painted a school bus? Join Scott and Al as they get out the green paint and brushes one sunny day...
August 15, 2007 - The latest web story is about "The Wizard" - Holloway Bar's gold machine. Gold isn't just laying around the property - you have to move and process tons of gravel. We use "The Wizard", a gold plant designed and built by entirely by Scott to get our gold and make your panning kits. Come for this insider's tour of the gold plant now online in the Pictures and Stories: Finding the Motherlode page...
July 26, 2007 - The sixth and final episode of the 2007 Summer Gold Mining Adventure series is now online on the Multimedia - Mining Adventurespage. What will happen when the gold comes? Will the mad miner work it out with his lead hand? Watch the final episode to find out...
June 20, 2007 - Have you ever wondered where visitors to hollowaybar.com come from? You can now view a world mapof the website's last 20 visitors on the webcam page...
Holloway Bar Placer Mine - Placer Gold Mining on McDame Creek in Northern British Columbia
Where are we?
Holloway Bar is located on McDame Creek in Northern BC's beautiful Cassiar Mountains. McDame Creek is where one of BC's largest solid gold nuggets (73 ounces!) was found in 1877 - just downstream from our Holloway Bar project.
Visit our online store to find some very unique gifts not available anywhere else in the world!
* Gold panning kits and refills - pan your own McDame Creek gold.
* Holloway Bar hats and T-shirts - pan in style!
* Gold nugget gift boxes - perhaps the perfect gift...
* Vials of gold - impress your friends and family!
* Multimedia - Gold Panning Kit DVD also available to order on its own (it's also included in the gold panning kit).
What is a Placer Mine?
There are two main ways to find gold. One is to tunnel into rock for gold ore, which is then removed from the rock using a variety of methods. We use the "traditional" method of placer mining, using water - lots of water - to wash the gravel and other material away from the gold, which is caught on its journey through the gold plant.
Waste water and material is captured in a series of tailings ponds where the water filters back into the ground. Unlike some mining ventures, this is a very environmentally friendly operation.
If you have Google Earth installed, you can download this .KMZ file (Google Earth Placement File) to take you directly to the Holloway Bar Placer Mine.
Life in the North is about balance. While we're gold miners at heart, we're not so obsessed that we ignore nature's other treasures. It's berry picking season - so you'd better grab your pail and head for a nearby bush...
Two or three times a summer, I make the 1,500 kilometer round trip to the Holloway Bar Placer Mine from my home in Terrace. I just returned home on Friday from my second trip...
In the little bit of mining we've done this year, we've noticed that the existing water pump has been running a little rough...
May 12, 2008
Exploration camps are often set up in the same area year after year, particularly if mineral prospects in an area looks promising. The Driftpile project operated through several decades, so it made sense to build an airstrip to allow supplies to be flown in year-round. Although snow often lingers long into the spring and summer high in the mountains, the Driftpile Airstrip provided a good, solid landing area for aircraft for much of the year and allowed the aircraft to drop off supplies even closer to camp than the meadow. The expensive helicopter time saved could be used even more for exploration purposes, making the project much more efficient in later years.
