Gold was discovered in Voglers Cove, #Lunenburg County, in 1885 when John Mann found gold in a boulder. Augustus Reinhardt also found #gold there the following year.
Four small mines eventually operated along...
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...Voglers Brook in the late 1890s to early 1900s in the Voglers Cove #Gold District. Records of their production are incomplete but based on what is known, output was modest.
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44 ounces of #gold are known to have been produced from two shafts at the Voglers Cove Mine which had a 5-stamp mill for separating the gold from its host rock. There is an aggregate quarry at the site now.
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The Reinhardt pit had a 15-metre deep shaft and a crusher but apparently no records of its production. The 15-metre deep Dr. Cowie shaft and the 7.5-metre deep Andrews Shaft also had no records of their production but all four mines were likely very small-scale.
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Many historical gold mines were not mines in the sense that we use the word now. They were often pits just a few feet deep, or a small shaft or two, often even without a mill for processing. So a very small amount of gold could result in them being referred to as mines.
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Today we would call them prospects, not mines, because the scale and sophistication are so different.
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