Photo of the historic Gold Camp Plaque erected in Geraldton on the southwest corner of Main Street and Fourth Avenue South by the Archaeological and Historic Sites Board of Ontario.

   View looking east down Mine Road to No.2 headframe and mill. Inscription reads 'Hard Rock Gold Mine Ltd'. At the extreme left of photo is the office and residence.

   View looking west up Mine Rd. at No.2 headframe and mill. Inscription reads 'Hard Rock Gold Mine'. In 1936, the company began sinking No.2 shaft on the porphyry outcrop, and erected a mill in 1937. Hard Rock Mine became the gold camp's 3rd producer in 1938.

   Photo showing an underground drilling operation of a gold mine.

   A winter view of Bankfield Mine looking west. Note the water line running to the water tower serving both Bankfield and Tombill Mines. The Bankfield Gold Mines began shaft-sinking in 1934, and three years later poured its first gold bricks.

   

   View looking southeast from the old Bankfield Highway at Magnet Mine. Today, Highway 11 is beyond the buildings shown here. Inscription reads 'Magnet Consolidated Gold Mine.' Magnet Consolidated Gold Mines Ltd.(1936), began sinking a shaft that year,and in 1938, became the gold camp's 5th...

   Black and white photo of mining operation near Geraldton, Ontario.

   Group of unidentified prospectors, one of them holding a gold brick.

 ~1934  View of Little Long Lac mining office. From left to right, T.H. Rea, George Rayner, Tony Oklend, Joseph Errington, J.H.C Waite, and two pilots, Boual and George. Rayner Construction had the contracts with Ontario Department of Northern Development to link local mines with roads. Tony Okeland was...

 1938  Inscription reads 'Pouring of first Gold Brick at MacLeod Cockshutt Gold Mine, May 20th, 1938'.

 1937  Inscription reads 'First Gold Brick - Bankfield Consolidated Mine June 12, 1937'. The first brick weighed in at 601.19 ounces. The Bankfield Mine was one of the most modern mills in the gold mining industry for the time. The whole mill was entirely powered by electricity.

 1936  Hutchinson Lake Gold Mines Ltd., incorporated in 1935, dug a series of trenches and test pits, but not until 1936 did the company begin it's shaft-sinking operation. The photo shows the site after the Geraldton fire in July, 1936.

 -1937  View looking west at Tombill mine. Note the water line to a short water tower in the foreground of the photo. Tombill Gold Mines was incorporated in 1935 and shaft-sinking began the following year. By 1938, Tombill mine became a producer, the sixth in the Geraldton district.

 -1936  Aerial View looking west towards Wildgoose Lake. The inscription reads 'Air view of Bankfield Consolidated Mine, Tombill Mine, and Jellicoe Mine'. Highway 11 and Bankfield Mine are in the foreground. Beyond,on an elevation, is Tombill Mine, and in the distance is Jellicoe Mine. Jellicoe...

 -1938  Aerial view looking north, along the shoreline of Kenogamisis Lake. Hard Rock Gold Mine was incorporated in 1934 and in 1935 the No.1 shaft was sunk on Discovery Point. Work ceased in 1937 in order to concentrate on the No.2 shaft on Porphyry Hill, farther west(not shown). Hardrock Townsite, seen...

 ~1938  Aerial view looking northeast. Inscription reads 'Elmos Mine'. The name of Elmos is a composite for Ellis and Mosher. In the centre is the headframe site on a tiny island, and to the left is a cluster of buildings. The two sites and the mainland are linked by a trestle. In the upper right is the...

 ~1936  Aerial view looking west from Kenogamisis Lake. In the foreground is the No.1 headframe of Hardrock Mine. To the extreme right is Hardrock Townsite. In the centre is No.2 headframe of the Hardrock Mine on Porphyry Hill. Beyond this cluster is MacLeod Cockshutt Mine, and to the extreme upper right...

 ~1937  Aerial view looking northwest. Inscription reads 'MacLeod Cockshutt Gold Mine showing Hard Rock Gold mine in the foreground, December, 1937.' Upper portion shows the hills on which MacLeod Townsite is rising, and beyond it, the clearing for the Kenogamisis Golf Course. There is no sign of the...

 ~1936-1937  Aerial view looking northeast across Barton Bay. Inscription reads 'Little Long Lac Gold mine'. In the foreground is the clearing for Errington Avenue. It would later be called Arena Road and in 1939, it would become part of Highway 11. At the extreme left is the townsite of Little Long Lac (known...

 ~1934  Elevated view looking east towards Hardrock mine in the distance. An early headframe surmounts No. 2 shaft. Note the hydro station towers just right of centre, and Mine Road on the extreme right. Inscription reads 'MacLeod Cockshutt Gold Mine'. mines, mining, gold mines, gold, Hardrock mine,...

 ~1934  View of Little Long Lac Mine looking southeast from Barton Bay on Kenogamisis Lake. The hydro transmission tower (double poles) and the absence of the bridge help to date this view. Hydro began servicing the mine in September 1934. Construction began on the bridge in the fall of 1935.

   Inscription reads 'New Mosher Mine'. Mosher Long Lac Gold Mines Limited was incorporated in 1934 and reorganized as New Mosher Longlac Mines Limited in 1950. In 1952, the shaft-sinking began. The mine used the milling facilities of MacLeod mine. In 1967, Mosher and Hardrock mines amalgamated with...

   Elevated view of MacLeod mine looking east towards Hardrock mine. From right to left, the No. 2 headframe of Macleod mine, the No. 2 headframe of Hardrock mine, and barely visible, Hardrock's No.1 headframe. MacLeod-Cockshutt mine features a new, next generation headframe.

   Inscription reads 'Maylac Gold Mine'. Maylac Gold Mines Limited was incorporated in 1946, when it acquired the property of Hutchison Lake Gold Mines Ltd., becoming the ninth gold producer in the Geraldton area.

   Inscription reads 'MacLeod Cockshutt Stack 230' high'. The stack was associated with the 'roaster' in the milling process of MacLeod-Cockshutt mine. mines, mining, gold mines, mine stack, roaster, MacLeod Cockshutt Gold Mine