Cochenour - Willans Gold Mines Limited
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Prospected by Dan Willans and Bill Cochenour in 1928. In 1936, Dan Willans disappeared on a prospecting trip in the Lightning River area of Northeastern Ontario, and his body was never found. Three years after the Cochenour-Willans Gold Mine Limited was formed, the mine poured its first gold brick in 1939. Ore extracted from this mine totaled $41,461,878.00 with the payout of dividends in the lifetime of the mine being $6.2 million. The mine closed in 1974.
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- RLPL; P20
- Collection
- Red Lake Public Library
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 51.01676 Longitude: -93.83374
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- Copyright Statement
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- Contact
- Red Lake Public LibraryEmail:rllib212@yahoo.com
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