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In 1897, the two companies were incorporated in Quebec, with White and Hotter exiting the following year. In 1899, Graves and Miner formed the Granby
Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co., which bought the Fourth of July, Victoria, Aetna, and Phoenix claims. The pair jointly owned the Old Ironsides,
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acquired a majority interest in 1904. By 1906, the Knob Hill and the Old
Ironsides workings joined underground to become a huge single network called the Granby mine, which spread into the Victoria claim that year. By 1908, Granby Consolidated owned 35 claims on the mountain, and smelter processing
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Matthew Hotter staked the Knob Hill and Old Ironsides claims respectively on what became known as Phoenix Mountain. In need of development capital, the two mines were incorporated as separate companies. In 1895, Jay Paul Graves, a Spokane-based financier, agreed to promote
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Consolidated Mining, Smelting & Power Co., which absorbed the existing Granby Consolidated, Old Ironsides, Knob Hill, and other syndicate properties, while dissolving the syndicate.
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moved ore throughout the smelter. On the mountain, the Curlew and the Gold Drop mines were acquired in 1909 and the
Snowshoe in 1913. Augmented infrastructure increased daily capacity to 3,400 tons, creating the largest copper smelter in the
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In 1936, W.E. McArthur leased the mine, extracting from the old workings. After buying the property, he operated intermittently until 1946. Repurchased by the Granby company in 1955, open-pit mining began in 1959. Erecting a
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the venture for a quarter interest. He also purchased the adjoining
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Granby Point, Granby Bay, and the Granby
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933:Turner, Robert D.; Wilkie, J.S. David (2007).
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756:"Mountain of Copper, Continued"
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259:Canadian Pacific Railway
408:The Granby coalmine at
384:Granby mine reactivated
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446:Granby Provincial Park
319:Great Northern Railway
251:Miner-Graves syndicate
243:Eastern Townships Bank
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701:. Northword Magazine.
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850:"Granisle (village)"
738:"Mountain of Copper"
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372:"Phoenix mines map"
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937:. Sono Nis Press.
910:"Granby Peninsula"
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55:Location in Canada
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112:Coordinates
49:Granby mine
20:Granby mine
956:Categories
927:References
303:square set
175:Discovered
149:Production
121:49°05′56″N
470:Footnotes
285:Operation
228:Formation
982:Smelting
452:Granisle
331:New York
327:Brooklyn
235:Montreal
218:Boundary
154:Products
75:Province
64:Location
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410:Cassidy
378:. 1911.
255:Phoenix
204:Company
170:History
94:Country
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239:Quebec
191:Closed
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