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Timmins

Boom town, Canada, founded 1912.

About Timmins

City in Ontario, Canada.1

Where next

Mines

Worked atKidd Mine (Kidd Creek)Kidd Mine (Kidd Creek) lies about 24 km away.1

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q991310 (Timmins)

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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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Haul trucks by Lechhabmed, CC BY-SA 4.0. Pictures: Earth Observations taken by the Expedition 15 Crew, NASA JSC (Public domain (NASA media, no copyright)); Elektrisk malmletning. Undersökningar på Billiton, 1920., Okänd / Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0).