A 35-year-old prospector named Ernest Johnson started it all. In two years of experience with radioactive ores around the Eldorado mine on Great Bear Lake, he had noticed that where there was uranium there were also cobalt and nickel. Figuring that the converse should be true, he packed a Geiger counter and pushed up the Roxey Creek valley, 120 miles north of Vancouver, where fallen rock bearing cobalt "bloom" lay in the creek bed.
Ernie Johnson tracked this float ore to its source, high on the mountain face, where there was an abandoned gold mine, hopefully named Jewel.
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