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Cobalt Silver District, Ontario

Mineral locality Inferred from historyGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokensCoins and tokens
Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: cobaltite, erythrite.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Rockhounding locality: silver-cobalt-arsenide veins

Historic world-class silver camp documented in Ontario geological reports.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Open shafts, arsenic minerals

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