Show a P 'U : i I I f ' mines in the Uommion where as£ year there were but 28 and the hew high price of the metal has brought prospectors in swarms 1 -- of the smallest of Canadian provinces it is noted mainly for its coal and steel output and its fisheries It was to protpect for gold and other minerals that Nicholas Denys was granted a concession in 1654 by Louis XIV of France That is the earliest record of gold mining in the Dominion Today the small province has 30 gold mines either in production or course of erection according to the report of a deputy inspector of mines TDRITISH COLUMBIA —J " A small mill crushing ore and getting ' it ready for the refiner Dear Lake r- at the Bear mine on Creat ' '" - ::" '" :" I' w"V C''''-- '"' 8 were 48 commercialized gold mining plants in operation in Canada on July 1st 1934 When President Roosevelt took the oath of ofhce m march IVJJ there were but o gold mine producing in the Dominion By early 1935 there will be about 80 active gold mines in Canada These figures are not those of high pressure stock salesmen They were giver recently by the Hon W A Gordon Minister of Mines for Canada And Mr Gordon explained that these figures did not take into consideration the many small pilot mills or projects for mill construction that have not taken definite form The figures show what has happened since President Roosevelt set the price of gold at $35 an ounce Fifteen new mills were brought into operation during the first half of 1934 Probably at no time in Canadian history have there been so many prospectors geologisfa and mining engineers out in the field as during the 1 934 summer Gold has been their main mission and it did not matter whether they found it on the Atlantic coast the Pacific coast Arrhr rnacf RiorVif arrnec Panaris rrA is being hunted the year round The reason — gold at $35 an ounce Musty files are being pawed through old mining reports are being carefully scanned aerial photographs are being studied old claims are being revived At the big producing mines waste material and old workings are being searched once more for ore which is worth money now In Nova Scotia Ontario British Columbia and the Yukon claims and mines which could cot be profitably operated when the world price of gold was $2067 an ounce are today being investigated surveyed and studied ' for production purposes Where once the prospector saw gold but also taw that it' would take machinery to take the gold out lie moved on to find fields where the Now gold lay in streams just for the picking those gold outcrops which necessitated machinGold at $35 ery are coming into prominence an ounce makes them a possibility for profitable development ND while the old sites are being analyzed new fields are being explored Every province of the Dominion except little Prince Edward Island has its gold hunters In the Yukon and North West Territories the searchers for the yellow metal travel in great numbers Some daring prospectors have cast yearning eyes toward the islands of the Arctic Archipelago where under all geological rules the great mineral shield which covers Ca lada should ' extend No clew is left unturned Take the recent strike on Great Slave Lake as example of this Great Slave Lake thorough' search for gold lies just in the North West Territories about 600 miles north of Edmonton the nearest city T summer Gold has been known to be there in small But an old Englishman quantities in the past named Hornby died east of the lake a few Staryears ago with two young companions vation was said to be the catise of death but it need not have been according to records which were found in the cabin Hornby had been a prospector as well as a man who liked to live far from civilization He had found gold in rich quantities on the shores of Great Slave Lake but so goes the story he did not want to see the country swarming with mining men mining camps and the subsequent civilization He did not want it for the sake of the Indians nor for what it would do for the country So he kept his samples and his finds a secret Now that the records have been found the shores of Great Slave Lake are being staked and those who have had a look at the old prospector's records have hied themselves to make the stakes where the richest samples had been f ng The hunt for gold fakes men into lonely Here's a geologist examining places ore samples on the desolate Arctic coast far-o- ff j follow and every strike soon means a new community That again necessitates stores'' barber shops a government mining office post office and gasoline depot Soon a small town nestles among surrounding bush with log cabins plentiful That picture repeats itself throughout the northland from The maQuebec to the Yukon the of new jority camps are in northern Ontario where also are most ' of the going mines - Research has found a more accurate method of discovering rich mineral finds It has been shown By finds made in the Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake area that a close study of aerial photographs will lead to mineralized areas ' Delorv: what the gold miner sees — underground quartz showing in a gold mine in the Kir kland-Lakarea of Ontario a wilderness only a few years ago and now one of the richest gold areas in the world e low-gra- ore ' - ' y j- J 1 ' w de AC V V 'iif? were not developed y ' V Today distance has diminished v "ft and it pays to mine ore i New regions too distant for even the early prospectors are being all requiring air opened now f f 'I transport And while talking of air transport there would? be little aviation in the Dominion if it were not ffor the gold mnes as well as the prospects of new gold finds InterAitcity services are fey in the Dominion so the aerial operators fly the bush land on unnamed though nowadays often mapped lakes 2 Freight in ton quantities is car- - ' ried by air the assortment ranging all the way from human passengers to heavy machinery to be assems bled at the distant mining camp Food supplies dynamite machin in northern Ontario were flown in to Sioux ery gasolinei bags? of ore — these are some of the items carried by the aerial express which Lookout the nearest town they fell asleep" as is playing abig part in the development of the soon as they got in the plane But when they new gold mines It will be a great surprise if came to their destination they saw a bicycle 1934is not the best year the air operators have something they had never seen before They had since commercial aviation became popular saw automobiles and ate ice cream cones These in Canada were novelties to them The airplane was not So well is the airplane known "in the north How important the gold hunt is can be taken from what is going on in Nova Scotia country that when a group of Indian children One 1934 (Copyright by EveryWeek Magazine) K '4 s - low-gra- : " nd - 4 double-mirrore- tu me - COME of these new camps have been spotted in years gone by but because of distance and fyi ERIAL' photographs ares accurate maps of With the aidTof a d any region instrument known" as a stereoscope the aerial photographs become relief maps with the hills and valleys come to life with rock formations showing clearly as to height and width Geologists studying such photos can tell the formation of the country can see the dykes and faults as they run for hundreds of miles Alongside such geological formations ore may be found That happened in several cases this Government engineers pointed out on yean their maps made from aerial photos where dykes and faults were located Their suggestions of possible mineral rinds have proved correct and now the aerial photo is more used with a saving ' in time and travel The latest maps based on aerial photographs1 accompany every party into the new There is little chance of mining fields today lost when becoming carrying one of these new maps which have on them every little lake of the shoreline and every island every zig-za- g are so detailed that a number of 'hem are necessary for any long trip each one overlapping — the other In this region of bush and lake axes are) ringing these days as new camps are being opened and cabins storehouses shafts and bunkhouses are erected Where a claim is proving up good there many other prospectors being shipped in by companies well fortified with funds Scientific methods of prospecting are being used so that the bedrock of streams can be charted for drilling purposes i In the Yukon whict shared major gold production with British Columbia in the past a whole river is 'being changed from its course Mining operations were hampered by frost in the gold-bearigravel and could not be undertaken on a profitable basis using regular thawing methods By diverting a large part of the Klondike River over the ground the frost will be abstracted f From two to three years are required for the operation but the pot of gold will be there Vhen the engineers get through It takes a few years from the time a prospector locates a promising find to the time when gold is shipped to the market There is the and then the underground tunneling financing ' 1— i i i l f we uuuks uavc id luc lucaieq wiio aia-modrills shafts have to b sunk ore cleared away and the whole ore body of the mine claim mapped out fWTien this has been done and the showing is still promising a ! it mui a uuut to nanaie a aennite Then tonnage of ore per day the other machinery goes in Finally from the rough ' rock which is fed into the mill- - and passes through a number of processes the gold brick is obtained Canadian gold mines in the last few years have been producing an average of Vbout three million fine ounces of gold a year making Canada the second nation in the world This following South Africa year about the same quantity is t expected and a leading financial paper in the Dominion states that next year Canada's gold output should be about 3500000 " ounces This year's gold crop " will be worth about $105000- 000 Last year's crop was worth ! Fur posts have been there for many years its shores and waters have been well traveled yet gold in big quantities was staked there just last found Canadian j gold producer with properties worked many years ago Here the gold is put into workionce more mainly placer gold found in stream beds- Crude hand methods were employed by the Now with the extension of roads and the use of rthe airplane heavy Machinery is vival old-time- rs James Montagnes ""HERE I once the main is having a re- de ic - - i - gold-produci- ng $61000000 Ontario w now the main gold producer in Canada supplying about 70 per cent of all the gold mined in Canada Quebec where a woman found the first gold in the Dominion in 1 823 on i River is the second most important producer British Columbia Manitoba the Yukon Saskatchewan Nova Scotia and Alberta follow in this order according to last year's official produc"The North West Territories tion " figures holding great possibilities have not yet produced gold but silver and radium have been found Gold is today Canada's most important mineral and the search for it has stimulated other industries and aided unemployment the-Chaudie- -- |