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It's free! Save it. In 1976, as a young man trying to make a living by market gardening on reserve in the north Okanagan, I went north for the winter months to work underground at Echo walter edmiston Bay (formerly Eldorado) Mines at Port Radium. All of the uranium had been mined by 1960, but walter edmiston the mine had just been drained and reopened to go after the silver deposits. I got an entry-level job as a deckman, part of the hoistman/cagetender/deckman trio who "skipped muck"--the process of bringing the ore from walter edmiston underground to surface. It wasn't long before the cagetender went AWOL, and I was promoted to riding the cage up and down the mineshaft--still skipping muck, but now also transferring men and equipment from surface to underground and, hopefully, back up again. Toward the end of the winter, a university student studying engineering or some such thing came underground for a couple of weeks to study the mine's ventilation system.
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