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The Red Lake mine was one of the largest gold mines in Canada and in the world. [1] The mine is located in northwestern Ontario at Red Lake. [1] The mine had estimated reserves of 3.23 million oz of gold in 2013. [1] Note that the Campbell and Red Lake mines are (or were) mining the same orebody, commonly referred to as the Campbell-Red Lake ...
Evolution Mining is an Australian gold mining company with projects across Australia and in Ontario, Canada. Evolution owns and operates mines at Cowal and Northparkes, New South Wales; Mt Rawdon and Ernest Henry, Queensland; Mungari, Western Australia ; and Red Lake, Ontario.
Kalgoorlie Super Pit Gold Mine: Northern Star Resources (50%) Saracen Mineral (50%) Kalgoorlie: Goldfields-Esperance: 690,000 (2009) Kanowna Belle Gold Mine: Barrick Gold: Kalgoorlie: Goldfields-Esperance: 284,000 (2009) Laverton Gold Mine: Crescent Gold Limited: Laverton: Goldfields-Esperance: 73,474 (2009–10) Lawlers Gold Mine: Gold Fields ...
Karl Brooks Heisey the President of Sanshaw Mines, Limited was the manager and driving force of the Sanshaw Gold Mine which was developed on White Horse Island during 1936–7. Heisey's crew uncovered a previously unknown well-mineralized shear and gold vein in 1936 which was the most important discovered up until that time in the Red Lake area ...
Placer Dome Inc. was a large mining company specializing in gold and other precious metals, with corporate headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In August 2005, the company had interests in 16 gold mining operations in 7 countries; it had a market capitalization of $6.7 billion USD (on June 30, 2005). [2]
The McDonough brothers staked the future Red Lake Gold Shore Mines. [7] The town experienced a sudden surge of economic, industrial and population growth with the development of the gold mines. By 1936, Red Lake's Howey Bay airport was the busiest in the world, with more flights landing and taking off per hour than any other. [8]
During the Australian gold rushes, starting in 1851, significant numbers of workers moved from elsewhere in Australia and overseas to where gold had been discovered. Gold had been found several times before, but the colonial government of New South Wales (Victoria did not become a separate colony until 1 July 1851) had suppressed the news out of the fear that it would reduce the workforce and ...
Australian gold rushes, in particular the Victorian gold rush, had a major lasting impact on Victoria, and on Australia as a whole. The influx of wealth that gold brought soon made Victoria Australia's richest colony by far, and Melbourne the continent's largest city. By the middle of the 1850s, 40% of the world's gold was produced in Australia ...