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Postcard with photo of men sitting and standing outside of a log and plank building, Written on one of the wall planks 'KING EDWARD'.
One of the earliest and longest producing mines of the early 20th century Silver Rush.
In bottom margin ‘LAKE & LEWIS , ARTISTS COBALT’
Sailboat logo on back dates RPPC to 1905-1908.
A silver mine, discovered in 1905 and called the Watts and Allen Mine (North half of Lot 3, Concession 5). Taken over by King Edward Mining Co. in 1908. Then starting in 1913 by various other companies with the last operator being Rix-Athabasca Uranium Mines. Production ended in 1964. Total production was 1,300,000 oz. Ag; 3,500 lbs. Co; 1,300 lbs. Ni; and 19,000 lbs. Copper.
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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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