Question: Which was found first, Beanland Mine or Burwash Mine?

Wheal Peevor was a mine located on North Downs about 1.5 miles north-east of Redruth, Cornwall, England.  The first mining sett was granted here in around 1701 on land owned by the St Aubyn family.  It was originally mined at shallow depths for copper, but when the price for that metal slumped after 1788, the mine was able to change to mining tin ore, which was found deeper down.  In the late 18th century Wheal Peevor had the advantage of being drained by the Great County Adit which was around 100 metres deep here.  The mine covered only 12 acres (4.8 ha) but had rich tin lodes.  In addition to tin and copper, pyrite was also mined here between 1872 and 1887. <SEP>  The town of Yellowknife did not exist yet at that point, but the discovery of gold at Burwash was the catalyst that brought more gold prospectors into the region in 1935 and 1936.  A short shaft was sunk in 1935-1936 at Burwash, and in the summer of 1935 a 16-ton bulk sample of ore was shipped to Trail, British Columbia for processing, yielding 200 troy ounces (6 kg) of gold.  The mine did not become a substantial producer and it is believed the gold vein was mined out. The Burwash Mine was a small gold property discovered in the fall of 1934 by Johnny Baker and Hugh Muir at Yellowknife Bay, Northwest Territories. <SEP> In World War II, the United States Navy needed a vessel that could consistently locate mines in [foreign or domestic?]  or littoral waters.  Littoral waters are found between the shore line and waters 60 meters deep.  The Accentor-class minesweeper (sometimes called the Accentor/Acme-class minesweeper) was developed for this task.  This class of minesweeper was named after the Accentor bird, Prunella modularis.  This bird is endemic to Europe, Asia, and North Africa which is the area that World War II occurred.  The bird is a drab brown and gray color and is in the same family as warblers and thrushes.  The Accentor-class mine sweeper was designed for the sweeping of mines in harbors, bays, and other littoral waters.  The Accentor-class minesweeper had a wooden hull for three reasons.  The first was that some of the mines that the Accentor-class minesweeper was trying to detect were detonated by a copper wire coming out of the top of the mine that is used to detect the magnetic field that is produced by the metal hulls of most ships; when the wire senses a magnetic field, it detonates the mine.  Minesweepers use wooden hulls because wood is a non-magnetic material, unlike steel, and would not set off this type of mine.  The second is that wooden hulls were lighter than metal hulls.  This caused them to float higher in the water, which made them displace less water and have a smaller pressure wave, so pressure mines would not be set off by the movement of the ship.  Lastly, due to the ship floating higher in the water, contact mines were not effective because they were often around 20 feet below the surface of the water, and the draft of this class of ship was between 8 feet 11 inches and 10 feet 8 inches.  Typically, the Accentor-class minesweepers were armed with a pair of .50 caliber machine guns for protection.  Rather than creating new minesweeping vessels, forty-five wooden-hulled fishing boats were converted into Accentor-class minesweepers.  This saved the Navy both time and money.  Since these converted fishing boats were not all the same, their specifications do vary a bit.  The converted fishing boats had a displacement from 165 to 270 tons of water.  They had speeds from 8.5 up to 14 knots and crews from as small as 15 up to 50. <SEP>  It is located about 1 km west of Arsenic Lake and 4 km northwest of the town of Temagami in central Strathy Township.  It is named after Sydney Beanland, who first claimed the mine site in the 1920s and was a director for the mine from 1937 to 1938. Beanland Mine, also known as Clenor Mine, is an abandoned surface and underground mine in Northeastern Ontario, Canada.