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McIntyre Mine headframe. The McIntyre mine is an abandoned underground gold mine in Schumacher, Ontario, Canada, which has earned a place in Canadian mining history as one of the nation's most important mines. Its iconic headframe, located near downtown Timmins, has come to represent the entire Porcupine Gold Rush. The McIntyre also yielded a ...
Timmins (/ ˈ t ɪ m ɪ n s / TIM-ins) is a city in northeastern Ontario, Canada, located on the Mattagami River.The city is the fourth-largest city in the Northeastern Ontario region with a population of 41,145 at the 2021 Canadian census and an estimated population of 44,819 in 2023.
The Timmins Underground Gold Mine Tour was an educational and interactive family attraction, dedicated to the gold mining history of Timmins and the surrounding region. The tour's move to its final site was primarily because of the cost and complexity of running a tourism attraction on an active mining property, and also because of the barriers ...
Dome Mine is situated in the City of Timmins, Ontario, Canada; and was developed during the Porcupine Gold Rush. [1] Last operated by Canadian company Goldcorp, before it became a subsidiary of American company Newmont, it is one of three mines (along with Hoyle Pond underground and Hollinger Open Pit, both still active) owned by Newmont in the Porcupine district in and around Timmins.
They arrived at the mine site on New Year's Day, 1910. Soon, Timmins had acquired 560 acres, which included the Hollinger, Miller, Gillies, Millerton, and Acme Gold claims. The Hollinger was incorporated and the Timmins group formed Canadian Mining and Finance Company Limited. [3]: 99–103 In May 1911, the surface plant was lost to fire.
Timmins was born Noé-Antoine, in Mattawa, Ontario, to Henriette Miner (1830 - 1894) and Noël Timmins (1828 - 1887), a merchant who had emigrated from England with his parents, Joseph Timmins (1795 - 1835) and Marguerite Hirschbeck (aka Aspeck, died 1805), the latter being of German and French descent — her mother, Louise-Amable Morin, was a direct descendant of 17th-century settlers Noël ...
Henry's son, Jules Robert Timmins (1888–1971), succeeded Noah Timmins, upon his death in 1936, as president of Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines.His 1971 obituary in The New York Times commended Jules as "a leading figure in the great iron ore development of Labrador"; [13] he was inducted into the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame, in 1989, for first developing iron ore fields of northern Quebec ...
The Kidd Metallurgical Site (or Met Site) is a metallurgical facility in Timmins, Ontario, Canada.It was built in 1980 and owned and operated by Xstrata Copper, following their 2006 takeover of Falconbridge Ltd. [1] [2] The site employs approximately 675 hourly employees.