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Postcard photo of man standing in front of bagged ore from the Nipissing silver mine in Cobalt Ontario. ready to be sent to processing mill. This was during the famous Cobalt Silver Rush in Northern Ontario.
Labeled ‘ORE BAGGED FOR SHIPMENT NIPISSING 1907’ and photographer ‘CFL’
AZO photographic paper dates it to 1905-1909
Two words on back,
The Nipissing high grade mill operated from 1911 until 1918, which the introduction of new processing methods at the low grade mill make the high grade mill obsolete. It is not known if the building was torn down or if, like so many others in the area, it burned down.
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The Nipissing Mine is an abandoned silver mine in Cobalt, Ontario, Canada, located on Nip Hill on the east side of Long Lake.
It was developed in the subsequent Cobalt silver rush of 1903. By 1907, it was the top producing mine in the area. The company completely surrounded Peterson and Carr lakes and occupied the east side of Cobalt Lake. At its peak, the mine had ten shafts working three veins, the Kendall, Meyer and Fourth of July. Additionally, it used hydraulics to strip the overburden and employed an aerial tramway.
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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