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This week’s Holloway Bar Classic Videos take you into the wilderness with a look at some of the area wildlife.  Then, learn why dragons are so important  on Holloway Bar before you take a quick road trip down one of the most scenic drives in the world…    Enjoy!

On a recent trip North, I encountered a cow and calf moose in a swamp along highway 37. I didn’t notice the calf until watching the video later…

I took a drive down the Skeena River towards Prince Rupert a couple of months back and spotted a group of bald eagles (at least 6 or 7) bickering over a fish on a sandbar…

Holloway Bar is a placer gold mine on McDame Creek in the Cassiar mountains region of BC. Owners Christina and Scott Jamieson have chosen a dragon to represent the property as a tribute to the 300+ Chinese miners working in this tough country 130 years ago.

I used to teach a college accounting course via videoconference and one fall I drove to Prince Rupert to meet my “remote students” and teach a class from there back to Terrace, where is where the course usually originates from. As it was shaping up to be a very nice fall day, complete with sunshine and swirling fog, I decided to mount a camera in the dash of the car for the trip with the thought of making another “time lapse” trip down the Skeena River, one of the most beautiful and scenic drives anywhere. You be the judge of that after watching the video. I hope you enjoy it…

Thanks for watching. Stay tuned for more next week!!

This week we look at a little mining by getting on board with the McDame Creek Placer Miner…   Then it’s on to a couple of timelapses from the Holloway Bar cameras.   Enjoy this week’s videos!

Al arrived at the Holloway Bar placer gold mine with a video camera a few years back – and Scott led him through a day’s mining and explained what he does and how it all works. He fed a bunch of gold-bearing gravel into the Wizard with the excavator, and then shut down and pulled the top nugget catch apart to wash the fine gold out the carpets. Once you’ve got some gold concentrate, you just have to pan a little bit of it so see if it does contain any treasures! Come along with us on our Holloway Bar placer mining adventure and see if you have what it takes to be a “McDame Creek Placer Miner”…

Webcam time lapse of 3 winter days in Watson Lake, Yukon – cold (-44C), short (winter solstice) and an interesting sky day.

Created with a series of webcam stills, this short video shows Terrace, BC over a 24 hour period – from midnight to midnight, October 11, 2006.

Welcome back to the Holloway Bar theater!

This week, we’ve got the world’s largest helicopter slinging equipment into a now-abandoned mega-gold mine, then we fire up a gold plant to shake things up before a couple of timelapse videos take the screen…

Enjoy this week’s video presentations!

The MI-26 is currently working on the $2 billion NovaGold mine in Northern BC. It’s able to lift 20,000 kg, more than any other helicopter! We caught it coming into one of the staging areas for this current megaproject.

After Scott and Del moved the mining location and shaker plant to a spot right below Webcam 9, I thought the digging would make an interesting time lapse as you’d actually be able to see how they dig and mine – filling in the hole with the cat as the hoe moves around. We did have a few problems with the webcam (the lines you see running across the screen), but you can still see what’s happening… The winter snows hit towards the end of the video, signallying an end to the 2009 mining season. This short video was made entirely from webcam shots – no fancy camera work, Enjoy!

Swirling fog makes for a great time-lapse video. I captured a few hours worth from one of my Terrace webcams to make this short video.

The images for this video came from the first webcam we installed in the Yukon. I waded through a year’s worth of images and selected one from each day as close to 9:00 am as I could. This is the result. There was no logic behind the 9:00 am choice – I’m sure other time slots would have worked well also – but there are some interesting shots (even a couple of snow plows in the “right locations” to make it look like a couple of sequential shots although they’re a day apart) and some beautiful skies. One thing is for sure – it’s easy to appreciate the long winters and short summers when you can watch the snow as part of the picture in one form or another from September until May…

This week’s collection of videos takes us back a few years and starts with one of our first serious video productions, Del’s Shaker Plant.  Mix in more mining, driving and time lapse videos and you’re mining and moving on Holloway Bar!

We made a short video explaining how a vibrating shaker plant works in the gold placer mining process. If you’re interested in the search for gold you’ll be able to learn about one method of mining in this video.

We’re mining on Holloway Bar on McDame Creek in the Cassiar Mountains in northern BC, near where BC’s largest gold nugget at 73 ounces was found.

These short videos originated from the Holloway Bar Streaming Camera that’s watching the mining in the 2010 season. I captured two segments approximately 30 or 40 minutes long and this is the result. The first part – mining with the cat – was the last day the cat was used exclusively for this dig. The loader – used, but new to this project – arrived the next day and was quickly put to work after a pre-job service. The second video segment with the loader was taken on the first day the loader was put to work on Holloway Bar.

A short time lapse of a drive through the Ningunsaw pass, a remote section of Highway 37 in Northern BC.

This started off as just a couple of random timelapses that I work on from time to time, but once it was organized a little and music added, it seemed to come to life. The images for these came from several of the hollowaybar.com webcams – sometimes from a compilation of images uploaded to the website (I try to archive these to the tune of about 10,000 images a week – probably about 3 or 4 million images now taking up almost 500 gigabytes of storage at the moment). These are fun to make – and I hope you enjoy watching this collection of timelapses…

This week, come on a virtual visit to the Holloway Bar gold mine in this collection of four short videos:

Dawn is one of the most spectacular times of the day on Holloway Bar as the sun tries to poke through the swirling fog banks early in the morning. This video was captured on the morning of June 16, 2006.

Watch us set off a bear banger – intended to scare away any bears that might be giving you trouble.

I created a number of time lapse videos from the Holloway Bar portable webcam and created this video…

Just a random collection of videos about getting to and wandering around the Holloway Bar Placer Mine. In split screen format, this video has a lot happening in a short time!

Thanks for watching this week!   Stay tuned for more..