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Cobalt

Ghost town, Canada.

About Cobalt

Town in Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada.1

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Mines

Worked atCobalt silver campCobalt lies close to Cobalt silver camp.1

Events

Led toCobalt silver rushCobalt is part of this story: Cobalt silver rush.1

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q2568572 (Cobalt)

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).