Mining has been an economic boost for 70 years

BY DAN HILDEBRAN Dan@BcTelegraph.com Beginning in the 1920s, residents and visitors to Kingsley Lake noticed that among the course white sand along the lake’s beaches, thin streaks of a black, silky substance could also be seen lacing through the sand. The black substance was ilmenite. After processing, ilmenite becomes titanium dioxide, a pigment used to…