Tony,
Thanks for your reply!
I too, was surprised at the use of the term gravel pit. This
was, however, one of the largest producers of aggregate (producing about
95% of the needs of the British Columbia lower mainland). They are
evidently engaged in several other operations; such as dedging sand from
the sea ways of the Fraser River and selling it for land fill. The man
conducting our tour was the owner and president of the company. It was
he who was using the term gravel pit, and who was also stressing their
connection with the mine associations. A video tape produced by the
U.S. mines association definitely stressed gravel quarrying as a part of
their work.
I'm sorry, but I can't get too concerned about the use of
terms. In the Sullivan Mine, we miners were required to use correct
terms - Raises were driven from the bottom upward and shafts from the
top downward. Yet on maps and drawings recently provided to me by
Cominco, engineers were very careless in using them. A drawing of 3927
RAISE (which was driven from the 3900 level upward around 1915) was
labelled 3927 SHAFT by a draughtsman who was attended school with me as
a boy. I would certainly give Art a dig about this if I met him, but we
both knew the skip way to which he was referring. And he was probably
copying from an earlier drawing.
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