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Mining Story of Michipicoten : Algoma, Northern Ontario
Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1940/1949 ?Item number (ISN):152671Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:STOTESBURY, DouglasAccession:1990-0088Media:FilmProduction date:1940/1949 ?Production company:Douglas Stotesbury (Photographer)Production credit:photographer, Douglas StotesburyDescription:Deserted gold mines of Michipicoten (1864-1939); deserted mining town of Gold Park whose population shifted to the iron mining development at Wawa in 1939 went bottom went out on gold price. Wawa United Church, manse, and new company homes; open pit iron ore mining; touching operations, dumping waste ore over the side of a mountain and transporting good ore to underground conveyor belt to sink-float plant; sink-float plant and bachet conveyor trolley to sintering plant two miles away; shovel feeding ore and coal into underground conveyor belts into sintering plant furnaces; loading of railway cars ready for shipment to steel plants; mining development; new underground shift to go beneath lake; pumping operations underway to drain lake; newly developed mine of Josephine which was deserted after only one year of operation (1946); brand-new deserted homes, and mining buildings inhabited by watchman and wife. <10 mn>Language:SilentDetailed holdings information: -
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