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Anyox, British Columbia
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Anyox was a small company-owned mining town in British Columbia, Canada. Today it is largely destroyed and abandoned. It is located about 60 kilometers (37 miles)southwest of Stewart, British Columbia on the shores of Observatory Inlet. In the first decade of the 20th century, Anyox grew to a population of almost 3,000 residents, as rich lodes of copper and other precious metals were mined from the nearby mountains. It was almost wiped out by forest fires in 1923, but the townsite was rebuilt and mining operations continued at the nearby Granby Mine.
By the early 1930's, the mine had been played out and the population of workers shrank to nothing. Salvage operations in the 1940's removed most machinery and steel from the town, and a forest fire burned all remaining wood structures.
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