The British Columbia mining industry has gone high tech. The availability of computers and high-speed communications systems has changed the way miners do business with the government. Both mineral and placer claims have been staked electronically for a few years now, and being a modern miner means becoming good enough on the computer to access the grid system that has been overlaid over the entire province on high-resolution digital maps. Claim boundries are now like electronic borders visible only in the corner of cyberspace staked out by Mineral Titles Online. But when you drag yourself away from your computer long enough to get out into the field and do a little exploring, many signs of the old ways can still be found. Far from high tech, this 100 year old claim post - just a tin can with now-illegible markings scratched in and nailed to an old post - marked the boundry of some of the old workings. The old timers would no doubt feel a little lost in the modern era as they'd have to trade in their tin cans and blacksmith-forged nails for a portable computer with high-speed Internet access and BC Electronic ID for system access. But even some current placer miners probably feel a bit lost in their journey into the great electronic unknown...
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