[After the Cobalt discovery] Spreading out in all directions, prospectors discovered silver in South Lorrain, Gowganda and Elk Lake, and gold in Larder Lake, Kirkland Lake and Timmins. These discoveries encouraged further exploration in northern Canada and beyond.

For the next half century, nearly every major discovery in Canada – from Noranda to Eldorado to Elliott Lake – was due to the skills and financial resources acquired at Cobalt.

In the process, the foundations were laid for the establishment of an important mining industry in a part of the continent that had previously been almost unknown.

http://www.republicofmining.com/2016/07/08/canadas-forgotten-silver-boomtown-by-douglas-baldwin-cim-magazine-junejuly-2016/

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