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The Hollinger Gold Mine was founded by Benny Hollinger in Timmins, Ontario, and in 1910 the company was incorporated by Noah Timmins and partners. The main Hollinger Mine operated from 1910 until 1968. During that period 65,778,234 tons were milled, producing 19,327,691 ounces of gold, indicating an overall grade of 0.29. The value of the gold produced is placed at $564.7 million. Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines was later acquired by Canadian tycoon E. P. Taylor's Argus Corporation. Argus was later acquired by Conrad Black in 1978 and it would become today's Hollinger Incorporated. * Founded 1910 as Hollinger Gold Mine * Changed to Hollinger Mines * Changed to Hollinger Argus Limited 1978 * Changed to Hollinger Inc. in 1985 ==Hollinger Mine== Rumors of gold in the Porcupine area had been circulating for some time, but every attempt to start production had resulted in poor returns. In June 1909 a group of prospectors found a rich vein that would eventually become the Dome Mine, but at the time it too remained undeveloped. However the news was now out, and prospectors started flowing into the area. In October 1909 Benny Hollinger, a young barber from Haileybury, and his partner, Alex Gillies, started prospecting in the area. When they met the Wilson expedition they were told that all the good lots were staked for at least west. So they went west, past the already staked-out claims, until they came upon an abandoned test pit near Pearl Lake where Reuben D'Aigle had given up three years earlier. The two were exploring the site when Hollinger dug into a mound that demonstrated how unlucky D'Aigle was:
They staked twelve claims near their discovery. Because different sponsors had staked them, they flipped a coin to determine how to divide the them. Hollinger won the toss and took the six claims on the west. Noah Timmins, who had early started a successful silver mine in Cobalt, purchased an option on Hollinger's claims and immediately started work on setting up mining operations. He set out in December 1909 from mile post 222 on the Temiskaming & Northern Ontario Railway (T&NO) with a crew of twenty men, two teams of horses, and two tons of supplies. Following an old lumber road, they had to blaze their own trail where the road had become overgrown. They arrived at the mine site on New Year's Day, 1910, and within weeks began mining gold. By the end of the 1920s the Hollinger was the largest gold mine in the British Empire and paid annual dividends of more than $5 million. In the 1930s Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines built 250 houses which were located in one area of the Town of Timmins. These houses remained in place right up until the late 1970s. The three room homes were designed and built identical to each other in every respect with the exception of the impregnated tar paper the covered them. Every second home was green with a red roof and the other was red with a green roof. The mine was so big by the 1960s it had almost of tunnels 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hollinger Mines」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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