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Cobalt silver camp

Cobalt silver camp, Canada. Closed, underground, mining silver, cobalt.

Why Cobalt silver camp is famous

Silver found in summer 1903 during railway construction. Output faded by the late 1920s.1,2

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Timeline

  1. summer 1903Cobalt silver rush3

Cobalt silver camp today

Where silver is mined todayWhere cobalt is mined todayMining in Canada

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People

Worked hereIgnace Tonene (Nias)He turned prospector when silver was found at Cobalt.4Owned byReuben Wells LeonardA grubstake produced a claim in the middle of Cobalt.5

Events

Led toCobalt silver rushRead what happened near Cobalt silver camp: Cobalt silver rush.1

Places

Located inCobaltCobalt silver camp sits at Cobalt.1

Sources

  1. Cobalt silver camp University of Waterloo
  2. Wikidata entity Q2568572
  3. Heritage Silver Trail, Cobalt (road tour PDF) Government of Ontario
  4. TONENE, IGNACE (Nias) (Maiagizis) Dictionary of Canadian Biography
  5. LEONARD, REUBEN WELLS Dictionary of Canadian Biography

Pictures on this page: Reuben Wells Leonard.png, Unknown author (Public domain).

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Pictures: Falu gruva, Lundberg, Bengt A / Europeana (CC0 1.0); Gold prospectors constructing a long box with a filter for panning gold. Process print after H.M. Paget, 1899., Henry Marriott Paget (Public Domain Mark 1.0); The laboratories of Marie and Pierre Curie, Paris: room where experiments on uranium ore took place. Photograph, ca. 1900., Unknown (Wellcome Collection) (Public Domain Mark 1.0); Kimberley, South Africa: miners and washing gear at the Bultfontein diamond mine. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris., Harris, Robert, active 1881-1888. (Public Domain Mark 1.0).