Page 4 Glenn Dr edhart Editor ’ s Note: Incr e as e e qui pme nt effi ci enc y an d s ave ene r g y cos t $. Meet s fir e s t a nd ard CSA M4 2 7 - M9 1 . B es t K fac t or o n the mar ke t ! L ow t r an sp or t a t io n cos t s , stand ard cr a t in g fo r mar it i me contai ners Ready E asy to I n st all Im pa c t r es is t a nt . To inc r ea se ai r VOL U ME QU AL ITY, a dai ly ch al le nge for pr o duc t io n. S PE ED A I R D U C T R o uy n - N or an d a 1 8 0 Rue D ’ Ev ai n R o uy n - N o ran d a,Qc Can ad a J0Z 1 Y0 1 - 866 - 797 - 9436 www .pla sticmi ner .c om S udbur y 2 6 2 Vi ct o ri a S tree t Su d b u ry, On Can ad a P 3 C 1 K4 The frst gold produced in The Porcupine was in 1910. That was the year the Dome and Hollinger produced 1,947 ounc - es. By today’ s scale, the total was small but it was signifcant . Those ounces marked the birth of the gold mining industry in Ontario. T o quote the Ontario Bureau of Mines annual report for 1910: “There were nine properties (in Ontario) from which gold bullion was recovered in 1910, the output being 3,619 ounces, valued at $168,498. The Porcupine mines (Hollinger 1,733 ounces and Dome 214 being the only producers) were re - sponsible for more than one-half the production. There had been local mines before the Dome and Hollinger but their production was short lived and not offcially recorded. The lack of sustainability of early mines in Eastern Ontario, Lake of the W oods and Sudbury , create d legions of critics who became vocal in the United States and Eng - land whenever promoters tried to arrange fnanc - ing for a property . Thus when the third mine of what was to become the Big Three of Canadian mining, the McIntyre, was briefy headed by a crooked promoter from New Y ork, the newspapers and mining magazines tried to drive nails into The Porcupine’ s reputa - tion. T immins was incorporated as a town as of Jan. 1, 1912 and has just completed its 100 anniversary celebrations. Gold has been produced locally for 102 years, a feat few gold-producing areas in the world can trumpet. W ith four mines today and several more expected to declare commercial production in the next couple of years, the future of T immins, and therefore the Ontario gold mining industry , re - mains bright. It is unfortunate that the provincial and federal governments basically ignored the importance of the City of T immins as the bellwether of Ontario’ s gold mining industry . Mines are depleting assets; they start to die when the frst ounce comes out of the ground. There - fore, common wisdom is that any community de - pendent on gold will die with its mines. The fact that the Dome has been in continuous production for 1 10 years gives lie to the frst theo - ry . And the existence of T immins makes a mock - ery of the second so-called truth. A lot of gold has been taken out of the ground here and a lot more will be mined in the decades to come . The value of that bullion runs into the billions of dollars. Those are facts that the world should be reminded of, not just that a municipality reached 100. T immins is a special place and its residents have been, and are, special people. Ontario should thank T immins for its gold industry “The Porcupine Camp” 100 Y ears of Mining Page 2