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
From Nova Scotia to Abitibi James Paul Norrie is a prominent figure in Canadian mining history. He is one of the main players in the first gold rush […]
Remembering the Missing Miners On October 1st, 2011, a memorial monument was dedicated to victims of the tragedy at the Musée minéralogique de l’Abitibi-Témiscamingue, located in Malartic. The […]
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 […]
The photo is captioned Paris Vallée, one of the village’s nicknames at the time (1940s)
View of Roc-d’Or’s main street in early 1940.
One of the Roc-d’Or buildings being moved to Malartic using tractors and wood logs.
Workers struggle to lift a building over the railway.
Malartic mourns its missing at a ceremony in the Catholic school. A funeral procession is organized in honour of the victims.