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The Porcupine Gold Fields and the Cobalt Silver Mines: Northern Ontario, Canada
Exploration, investment, and mining in Northern Ontario’s Porcupine and Cobalt camps.
This book blends historical detail with practical notes on mining claims, power, and the regional boom that shaped early 20th-century Canada. It surveys the camps, their key properties, and the evolving technology that kept operations moving, from prospecting rules to hydro-electric power and mill development.
Learn how mining law governed staking and patents, and what it took to sustain a claim.Explore major camps like Porcupine and Cobalt, along with the towns, mills, and power plants that powered their growth.See early 20th-century production, dividends, and the shifting roles of ore shipping, concentrates, and bullion.Understand the transportation routes and infrastructure that connected northern mining with broader markets. Ideal for readers of Canadian mining history and industrial development in the early 1900s, as well as anyone curious about how these camps rose and evolved.
This book blends historical detail with practical notes on mining claims, power, and the regional boom that shaped early 20th-century Canada. It surveys the camps, their key properties, and the evolving technology that kept operations moving, from prospecting rules to hydro-electric power and mill development.
Learn how mining law governed staking and patents, and what it took to sustain a claim.Explore major camps like Porcupine and Cobalt, along with the towns, mills, and power plants that powered their growth.See early 20th-century production, dividends, and the shifting roles of ore shipping, concentrates, and bullion.Understand the transportation routes and infrastructure that connected northern mining with broader markets. Ideal for readers of Canadian mining history and industrial development in the early 1900s, as well as anyone curious about how these camps rose and evolved.
34 pages, Paperback
Published September 19, 2018
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