Fossils

Fossil Collection One

By Corey Lablans

Created a set up to photograph minerals and fossils. Decided I would photograph a few and here they are.

 Fossil Crab (Longusorbis Cuniculosus) - Oyster Bay Formation, Shelter Point, Vancouver Island, British Columbia

 Crocodile Egg - Bouxwiller, France

  Crocodile Egg - Bouxwiller, France

 

 Ammonite - Madagascar

 

  Ammonite - Madagascar

  Brachiopod - Millhaven, Ontario

Crinoid Calyx - Millhaven, Ontario

 Crinoid Pieces - Amherst Island, Ontario

 Ceraurus (Trilobita) - Prince Edward County, Ontario

 Ceraurus (Trilobita) - Prince Edward County, Ontario

Cobalt Mine Tour

Cobalt Mine Tour

Photos by Corey Lablans

The Colonial Mine was in operation from 1907 to 1937 and produced 1.25 million ounces of silver. The local mining museum offers tours of the Right-of-Way Mine and underground tours of the Colonial Mine. For more information check out: http://www.cobalt.ca/index.php/historic-cobalt/colonial-adit-tour

Right-of-Way Mine

Inside of the Right-of-Way head frame. Left photo: elevator that would have been lowered down into the mine. Middle photo: the wooden structure of the head frame. Right photo: the track system used to move the carts on the upper level of the head frame.

Inside the Colonial Mine during the underground tour.

Cobalt Silver Mines

Cobalt Silver Mines

Photos by Corey Lablans

For thousands of years the vast mineral wealth of Northern Ontario lay underground undiscovered.

Mother Nature gave up some of those riches with the discovery of silver in Cobalt by two railway tie contractors - James McKinley and Ernest Darragh. They followed their dreams of gold all the way to the California gold fields only to come back empty-handed. Their luck was about to change. In August of 1903, while under contract during the construction of the newly formed Temiskaming & Northern Ontario (T. & N.O.) Railway at Long Lake, they found the "glittering rocks" of men's dreams.

"They had learned to test nuggets by biting them with their teeth. When they tested the 'glittering rocks' they knew they had found native silver." - Yankee Takeover of Cobalt, John Murphy

Read more: http://www.historiccobalt.ca/index.php/en/history

Cobalt Water Tower

McKinley-Darragh Mill Site

McKinley-Darragh Mill Site

 Left and Center Photo: Silver Summit Mine / Right photo: Nipissing 96 Mine

More Cobalt History Links: 

http://www.cobalthistoricalsociety.ca/Silver%20Trail.html
http://www.historiccobalt.ca/index.php/en/historic-cobalt-corporation