Gold Rush: Stories of Big Mines and a Little Town Named Malartic Gold Rush; stories of big mines and a little town named Malartic Musée minéralogique de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue
The Terex RH-340 Electric shovel.
Aerial view of Malartic and the Canadian Malartic Mine pit in 2012.
First and Foremost The mineral fields of the Canadian Malartic Mine were first staked by John Mark in 1922. Located on the edge of the Cadillac Fault, who became […]
In 1932, Mr. James Paul Norrie and Mr. L.K. Coffin staked the land located half a kilometre from actual Malartic in the direction of Val d’Or. They began […]
Harsh Conditions The Sladen area was staked between 1923 and 1924 by B. Sladen and H. S. Kennedy and was located between East Malartic and Canadian Malartic about […]
An Abundant Deposit, A Prosperous Mine In 1934, W.B Crane and John Partanen, under the leadership of James Paul Norrie, staked on the Cadillac Fault’s extension, 10 km […]
The ore to be refined starts off as a greyish mud received from the mill. It is placed in a pot and heated to more than 3000 degrees […]
These two miners are busy unloading a cart of crushed rock in the ore pass. This is a vertical tunnel into which the ore is poured then recovered […]
Industrialization The jackleg is one of the tools that allowed miners to increase their productivity in an unprecedented. It was developped during the Industrial Revolution. The tool is […]