Beautiful Vintage Felt \"Giant Gold Mines\" Yellowknife N.W.T. Crest (Crest Craft)

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Beautiful Vintage Felt \"Giant Gold Mines\" Yellowknife N.W.T. Crest (Crest Craft):
$36.21

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Beautiful Vintage Felt \"Giant Gold Mines\" Yellowknife N.W.T. Crest (Crest Craft). 5.25 inches x 6.5 inches.

The Giant Mine was a gold mine located on the Ingraham Trail, 5km (3.1mi) north of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Giant Mine is within the Kam Group, which is part of the Yellowknife greenstone belt. Gold was discovered on the property and mineral claims staked in 1935 by Johnny Baker, but the true extent of the gold deposits were not known until 1944 when a massive gold-bearing shear zone was uncovered beneath the drift-filled Baker Creek Valley.

On September 18, 1992, at the height of a labour dispute during the tenure of Royal Oak Mines ownership, an explosion in a drift of the mine, 750ft. (230m) underground, killed nine strikebreakers and replacement workers riding in a man-car. Mine employee Roger Warren was later convicted of placing the bomb. The strike/lockout ended in 1993, pursuant to an order by the (then) Canada Labour Relations Board. A civil suit also resulted on behalf of the families of the replacement workers killed in the explosion (Fullowka v. Royal Oak Ventures Inc.) In 2008 the nine Giant Mine widows lost their $10-million civil judgment when the Northwest Territories Supreme Court overturned an earlier ruling.

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Beautiful Vintage Felt \"Giant Gold Mines\" Yellowknife N.W.T. Crest (Crest Craft):
$36.21