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THE NORTHERN POST

"GROWING WITH THE NORTH"

THE GRACE DARWIN GOLD MINE

-by Donald E . Pugh

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The history of Wawa is that of Hoffman's Delicatessen -

mining enterprises . From the

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initial discovery of placer gold

in 1898 to the present, Wawa has

been the hub or focus of activities of many widely scattered

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mining camps .

One of the contributors to

kIAWA Wawa's prosperity has been the

Grace Mine whose .rich surface ore

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yielded between 1900 & 1910, some

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five to ten bricks a month, then 10 :00 A .M .-11 :00 P .M .

valued at $5,000 . to $10,000 . The Grace was one of the few mines to operate following the collapse of the Wawa mining boom in 1906, and the return of the town to the domain of the wolf & the moose . Nevertheless, as the shaft sank

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deeper, the ,Grace too became

quiet, leaving the stark head-

frame silent, beneath a sombre sky .

The increasing price of gold & development of more efficient mining methods revived interest in the mine in the 1920's . An entrepreneur, Mr . Richard Jacob-

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son raised capital & in 1926 the ENO JOE TOO BIG OR TOO SMALL

regular throb of water pumps & the roar of compressors and

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drills spoke of new hopes . Five

hundred feet below the surface a

new lode was located, but costs continued their upward spiral .

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The mine closed in 1928 to permit

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the construction of a more effec-

tive flotation mill to separate

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the rusty or waste ridden gold

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from the surrounding rock . Disaster plagued the investors . The

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inefficiency of the new flotation system spelled the death of many an investor's dream with the closing of the mine in 1930 .

By 1934 ten million dollars

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had been raised by a Montreal

syndicate for the purchase &

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'installation of a more efficient dried up, and in 1937 the Grace Mine

cyanide mill . The mine's name

became silent once more .

became the Darwin . New cookeries

Today, a rotting headframe, water

and bunk houses symbolized the

filled shaft, and ugly concrete piers

renewed optomism and revival of are all that remain of the Grace .

old hopes . The shaft sank deeper, Yet, below the surface, the rich

crossing the 900 foot mark, but veins of gold ore remain, perhaps to the ore was rich with the glitter once again entice future interest .

of gold . From the average forty

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tons of ore removed per day, five

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hundred dollars was extracted, while one unusual vein yielded $20,000 in gold per ton . Some months the wagon to Ottawa

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c,k~rried sixty to seventy pounds of gold insured at $20,000 . to $25,000 .

In spite of the exceptional

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yields, mining was a speculative and costly operation . The clouds

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of war loomed over Europe during the late 1930's . Wise investors were led to place their money in

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steel & ammunition factories .

While .operatipns such as Algoma

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