Temagami-Lorrain Mine is an abandoned surface and underground mine in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is located about northeast of the town of Temagami near Sauvé Lake in central Cassels Township. It is named after the Temagami-Lorrain Mining Company, which carried out work on the property in the early 1900s.

Development by the Temagami-Lorrain Mining Company consisted of trenching, stripping and sinking of a shaft in fractured Nipissing diabase. The primary commodities mined at Temagami-Lorrain were cobalt and gold. Secondary commodities included arsenic, silver, nickel and copper. In 1925, samples from the waste rock dump showed considerable cobalt bloom and one of the richest had an analysis of 5.87% cobalt, 0.12% nickel, 1.08% copper, 12.48% iron, 14.17% sulfur, 10.39% arsenic, of gold and traces of silver. Exploration in 2005 assayed low silver to of gold per ton.

Temagami-Lorrain Mine

See also

List of mines in Temagami

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Mines in Temagami

Cobalt mines in Canada

Gold mines in Ontario

Arsenic mines in Canada

Silver mines in Canada

Nickel mines in Canada

Copper mines in Ontario

Temagami-Lorrain Mine