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      The Howey Gold Mines open stope to surface in 1940. Open pit mining was practiced at Howey Gold Mine until a shaft pillar collapsed and the ground caved in. Howey Gold Mine closed the mine down forever, leaving hundreds of people unemployed. Businesses in the town went bankrupt, and many …

      Prospectors - standing on a gold vein. The claim is KRL200077. This is part of his claim that the prospector is working on now. This picture was taken in the 1940's.

      Howey Gold Mine - mine operations - Open pit Mining. 1940. Red Lake District

      A seasoned miner standing beside his steam powered diamond drill at Howey Gold Mine, an example of open pit mining, 1940. Red Lake District.

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

      Open Pit mining operations. Red Lake District.

      An excellent example of open pit mining at Howey Mine, Red Lake, Ontario in 1940. Howey Mine was closed due to a collapse of the shaft pillar, leaving hundreds unemployed in the town. However a few years later, George Campbell and his guide Joseph Hagar, found the motherlode next door. …

      Open pit mining operations - 1940 - Red Lake District

      Two unidentified miners working the open pit operations at Howey Gold Mine, Red Lake, Ontario.

      Ed Mumford, diamond driller for Howey Gold Mine, Red Lake, 1940. Howey Gold Mine began production in 1930, and continued for eleven years. It closed in 1941 due to a collapse in the shaft pillar in the open pit area of the mine.

      Ed Mumford, diamond driller, working open pit mining operations at Howey Gold Mine, Red Lake, Ontario.

      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.