open house

Across the province it is "Open House Day". It was a damp grey morning. So five of us piled into a van and made a few visits. But this being a mining town we started with the old headframe. I had only ever seen it from the road across a lake, but here we were up close and personal. It was so much bigger than I had thought and very imposing. The other mine buildings have been torn down, but this was kept for prosperity. However now that the price of gold is up and there is still a lot of gold in the ground, an open pit will grow out of the old mine workings. It wil take a very long time before this town runs out of gold,