People/prospector

Ignace Tonene (Nias)

Ignace Tonene (Nias) (born 1840), prospector, from Canada. Linked to silver, gold.

The lucky break

During the rush that followed the 1903 Cobalt silver discovery he began prospecting and was credited with finding the ore body that led to the Kerr-Addison gold mine.1

The downfall

One of his claims was jumped and Indian Affairs could not secure redress.1

Legacy

A Temagami Ojibwa chief and fur trader who became a prospector in his sixties.1

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Where next

Mines

Worked atCobalt silver campHe turned prospector when silver was found at Cobalt.1

Sources

  1. TONENE, IGNACE (Nias) (Maiagizis) Dictionary of Canadian Biography

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); 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); 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).