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Attractive RPPC photo postcard of the Nova Scotia Silver Cobalt Mining Limited property on the east shore of Peterson Lake, Cobalt, Ontario.
Shaft No. 1
Shaft No. 3
Mill building
Other out-buildings
Photograph by SECORD & GROUCH Cobalt, Ont.
‘AZO’ photographic paper dates it to 1908-1911
The Nova Scotia Mine was a prominent early 20th-century silver mine located on the eastern shore of Peterson Lake in Cobalt, Ontario. Discovered in 1904, it was purchased by the Nova Scotia Silver Cobalt Mining Company in 1906, producing about 1 million ounces of silver before shutting down in 1921. The site later operated under the Dominion Reduction Company, which processed ore from surrounding mines.
Located in Coleman Township, east shore of Peterson Lake, Cobalt, Ontario.
Discovered in 1904 by Murdy McLeod and J.B. Woodworth. Purchased in 1906 by the Nova Scotia Silver Cobalt Mining Company, which built a 20-stamp mill.
The mine produced approximately 1,082,774 ounces of silver.
In 1913, the site was reorganized into the Dominion Reduction Company, expanding to become a custom mill for other nearby mines (e.g., Kerr Lake) until it closed in 1921.
The property was involved with the Peterson Lake Silver Cobalt Mining Co. (1905) and saw later work by Silver Century Exploration Ltd. and Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd. in the 1980s.
Secord & Groch were professional photographers operating in Cobalt around 1909–1911, during the peak of the mining boom. They produced commercial mining photography, likely selling RPPCs to miners, investors, and tourists.
The Cobalt silver rush started in 1903 when huge veins of silver were discovered by workers on the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway (T&NO) near the Mile 103 post. By 1905 a full-scale silver rush was underway, and the town of Cobalt, Ontario sprang up to serve as its hub. By 1908 Cobalt produced 9% of the world's silver… However, the good ore ran out fairly rapidly, and most of the mines were closed by the 1930s.
The Cobalt Rush was instrumental in opening northern Ontario for mineral exploration. Prospectors fanned out from Cobalt, and soon caused the nearby Porcupine Gold Rush in 1909, and the Kirkland Lake Gold Rush of 1912. Much of the settlement in northern Ontario outside the Clay Belt owes its existence indirectly to the Cobalt Rush.
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