Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1911-10-28
Cobalt and the NorthIand.


given upwards of "a, 100000 ounces of
silver to the worlds stock of metal,
to which have been added many mill
ion ounces additional during the pres
ent year.
Spreading out from this camp, pros
pectors have gone into the northland,
both in the province of Ontario and
to some extent the province of Quebec,
ana have brought into being other
camps which bid fair to add materially
to the wealth of gold which is making
prosperous the people of this CONT
nent. Another railroad is now about to
be started which is to open up yet an
other unknown land, lying close to the
shores of Hudson Bay, or rather its
branch, James Bay. What will be
found in this region is yet a matter
for the future to disclose but it may
be borne in mind that the search for
gold, extending out from Porcupine,
is even now leading we'll over towards
this unknown land.
The recently issued report of the
Minister of Mines for the province of
Ontario reveals that in 1910 the gain
in mineral production over 1909 was
approximately 5000, COOS, of which in
crease the camp of Cobalt accounted
for the largest part, with a gain of
4,775,000 ounces of silver, and the
mines of Sudbury the next greatest,
with a gain of 5,4O5 tons of nickel.
Strictly speaking, there was only a
small production of gold, 1863 ounces,
of which half came from Porcupine,
but it is of course recognized that 1910
witnessed only the beginning of the
work in the gold mines
For the present year, Porcupine and |
Swastika, among the new gold camps, |
are attracting the most attention, yet
much interest is also being taken in |
the many other districts, old and new,
in which work has been carried on |
during the past summer. Predictions |
all point to the near approach of the |
productive period at Porcupine, a per-
iod which in all probability would |
have been reached ere this had it not |
been for the forest fire of the early |
spring. The coming year, 1912, will
therefore witness the real beginning
of gold production from the northland.
In silver, Cobalt still leads the
heard carrying the intimation that
the camp is not keeping up the mark
set in the past. but an investigation
into this subject will hardly support
the assertion. Judging by the pro-
duction made so far this year. the out
put for 1911 will be greater than for
1910 by 1000, COOS; in other words, the
output of the camp this year will be
around 10000, COOS.
True, the camp has settled down to
steady production. There is not the
speculative activity so much in evil
dence during its earlier days, specula-
tive interest having rather been trans
ferred to the new camps. whose pos
sibilities are not quite so well known.
Milling practice has been perfected.
and the low grade ores are now add
ing their quota 10 the total output.
The shipments from the district are
rather of the pure metal, than of the
ores, the sending out of which has in
the past attracted considerable atten-
tion from the outside.
The supply of the high grade ores
is not, however, by any means exhaust
ed, as is evidenced by the steady pro-
duction of such ores being maintained
from the larger properties, as well as
by the new finds which are being re-
ported. Crown Reserve, for example,
has made three new highgrade discov-
cries during the past month, the veins
being entirely new, averaging two to |
three inches in width and carrying |
from 5000 to 5000 ounces in silver,
the typical high grade veins of the
camp.
Cobalt may well be said, therefore,
to have only just entered upon It's
real period of productiveness-the
period of steady output, of dividends
based upon profits in handling the,
comparatively speaking, lower grade !
ores, and of gradual extension of pro
fitable work to other than the princi-
pal mines of the camp.
In other words, the camp is passing
through the experience common to
every established mining camp of the |
West-the initial activity, speculation, |
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