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      McKenzie Mines located on McKenzie Island. McKenzie Red Lake Mines was formed in 1932. Milling began in 1935. To the end of 1962, a total of 2,068,036 tons of ore had been milled, producing $25 million of gold bullion. The mine closed in 1965.

      Campbell Mines surface plant 1948.

      Cochenour Mine headframe collapsed. Sheave wheels on ground.

      Madsen Red Lake Gold Mines near Red Lake, Ontario. Photo of original headframe and stamp mill. Madsen Red Lake Gold Mines became the fifth producing gold mine in Red Lake, in 1938, and consisted of 31 claims. From 1938 to 1972 they produced $81,698,783 and paid $10,444,891 in dividends to …

      Hand drilling 30 feet down the shaft. Very shortly the power drills will be working. This is solid rock and they are going down 500 feet.

      George Harmer pouring a gold brick.

      Headframe under construction 1938.

      Gold production of Starratt Olsen Mine started in 1948 and ceased in 1956.

      Photo of the prospector, Sandy McIntyre, taken at Kirkland Lake in 1928. Although he was the principal discoverer of McIntyre Porcupine Mines Limited, Sandy died in poverty as did many prospectors of this era.

      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 …

      Gold Eagle Mines started production in 1937, and closed in 1941. The name was changed to Goldray Mines in 1959.

      McMarmac Red Lake Mine Ltd. was the eighth producing gold mine in Red Lake in 1940. In 1926, prospectors George Musclow and George Wilson were engaged to prospect these claims. They discovered massive visable gold over wide areas and it was stripped and opened up by trenching and was said …

      Gold Shore Mine, began operations in 1937 and averaged 125 tons per day in it's two years of operation. It was the fourth largest gold producer in the Red Lake area. Located on McKenzie Island, this property consisted of 30 mine claims and grossed $750,000 thousand dollars.

      Red Lake, Ontario, Madsen Mines, mines, mining

      Clerk, Robert Tyre, and mining recorder, H.E. Holland, in front of their office in Red Lake, Ontario, April 1926. Over 10,000 mining claims were recorded that year.

      Gold Shore Mine Mills located near Red Lake, Ontario. Red Lake Gold Shore Mines began operations Aug. 23,1936, and poured it's first gold brick on Sept 1,1936. Photo was taken on July 5, 1938.

      Unknown miner breaking through rock using a hand-held rock drill at the Starrett Olsen Gold Mine, 1942. Incorporated in 1945, Starrett Olsen Mine was the ninth producing gold mine in Red Lake, with a total of $5,629,400 worth of gold bullion produced between 1945 and 1956. Claims were purchased by …

      Fourteen years after the claims were staked, the Cochenour-Willans mine went into full production in 1939, just before WWII. Cochenour-Willans Mine went on to produce gold until 1971 in Red Lake, Ontario.

      Entrance to the Howey Gold Mine near Red Lake, Ontario.

      Howey gold Mine- mine operations - open pit mining 1940. Red Lake District.