There's still Gold at the Abandoned Eldorado Gold Mine, Ontario 

Find out more details and share. Do some family digging! History gets rewritten pretty fast

Or maybe we have livestock and crops, and outsiders have zero regard for fences or bulls--or LGDs. There are huge liabilities to having people wander your property. This woman is bypassing the insanity of gold-crazed trespassers (and potential explosives etc) by offering tours etc. Good on her, but to label the rest of us anal and selfish--you go buy your own chunk of Canada and pay insurance, taxes and fencing, then deal with loose and missing stock, cut fences, and trespassers crying they were attacked by an LGD--then you'll have a wakeup call!

Possible Sasquatch cover up 🦶😵‍💫

Did you ever make it there?

Terry did most people around there know there used to be a mine on the property?

Correct. My uncle had a company come out to this mine. The gold thats left is now in small vains. At the time gold was less than 400oz. It was going to cost as much as could be mined. So from a business aspect it was not worth it. But its a fun for people to explore. My uncle built a home here and sold a few years back.

A proposal to mine was presented to your uncle in 2001 by Phelps Dodge. Cliff didn't like the guy in charge and said no to the proposal ( copy of proposal on view in rock shop). The copper mine was then sold in 2006 to a platinum company who still make offers for mining here. The gold runs north/south with a small deposit also discovered in the top fields direct north of the original discovery. A person must have all the information covering the entire 100 acres to have a full understanding of what happened and what is still here. Your uncle kept the fields in hay and I let a local farmer plow them under. The plowing revealed the original river bed and glacial movement towards the marsh. This creek has moved 20 feet from its original path. In creating this park I have been able to find so many mistakes previously recorded. Re discovering and documenting the crosscut shaft changes everything that we once thought. The crosscut is still there ( see video Richardson goldmine reveals its secrets) at the very bottom of this shaft and the veining impossible to described. I never show any mining company the entire site.

I would love to placer mine that creek :)

vinivv every abandoned mine was abandoned for a reason

Yes still does but like other people have said it didnt cost $1400 / ton on the market back then either.

***** Will do - the Madoc area must be close to where you live.

Lynn Campuzano Yeah - she will no doubt see the comment later today as i'll send her a link. She owned the property for some time before she found any of this. The stamp mill was so obscured by thick cedar that they had to be thinned to even get there and she is still finding stuff.

saw it and it's awesome

There more to be found i sure. Thers use to be someold machines back there but people would tresspass and take stuff. 100 acres was hard for my uncle to keep an eye on when he had a family, cattle, chickens and a job. 0lus us on weekdays and summer vacation. I sure miss those days.

clothed or unclothed?

+Caver461 can't tell ...just see them running from the middle to the right side

Yes, I saw it. Good eye.

Evan Henry I see it

weird eh?

Do you still offer Tours? I live in Belleville and have been fascinated by Eldorado.

touchnova My pleasure - its a cool place

I put a specimen in hydrogen peroxide. it fizzed and I was able to crumble it up.

+michael therrien Then I'd argue that the sample was not quartz. I think a Hardness Test should have first been conducted to confirm the specimen's identity. I think you'd find it was either Calcite OR Flourite.

I an example of the material it was schist

+michael therrien That makes sense to me. Well done and thanks.

+SnowTiger45 Kim is not a geologist and just fell into the ownership of the mine. Sometimes you must make your own interpretation of her description. Historically she is a world of information.

You are correct.

I was born in Kirkland Lake,my father worked at Lakeshore Gold mine, it closed we moved to Bancroft Ontario, the mines built homes for the miners on Faraday Heights and Bow Lake.....He worked for the uranium mine.

I built Geiger counters and found some very high grade ore there, when I was 16 or something. Fun adventure.

zacmitchel92 Sadly not, But I will be talking on it at this year's Bancroft gemboree

+Showdown One should buy a copy of my book if it interests them and if not don't bother.

Just buy it from them. Mining is hard. and profitable. many miners have made their money and are happy to sell out to a person who wants to keep it going. If you can get working equipment and tips from the old pro, that goes a long way you know

Lava6409 Lots of great places there - old mines etc. Used to be a tree planter in that region.

I have been exploring Temagami mines for years, been to at least 10 of them. There are lots of different metals in the area, including gold, silver, iron, copper, nickel, platinum, palladium, lead, zinc, cobalt and molybdenum. I'm thinking about doing some gold prospecting this summer.

Lava6409 Very exciting. It appears that some of the better local deposits are in morains and eskers - sadly unsorted as the last ice age was only 14000 years ago. good luck - let me know how it goes.

Caver461 The Temagami area is very under explored, given the fact that there has been very little mineral exploration here since the 1960s. A new company founded in Cobalt last year believes that there are several spots conducive to hosting gold deposits that could be well over 1 million oz. in the Temagami Greenstone Belt so I'm hoping there will be another mine in the area. I'm supposed to get a gold detector this summer to scan sediment, rock formations and maybe mine tailings.

Very exciting - I too am saving for a metal detector. We are fortunate to live in such a mineral rich area.

this was my uncles property untill it was sold a few years ago. he sold the mineral rights with the property a few years back. they can dig all they want. we had a mining company investigate and the mine comtains only 5% gold and at h time its costs more to mine than what would be in profit. people use to tresspass so he took a tractor and filled in mostof the entrances early 80 some people were hurt because part of the mine caved in. so,if your upthere besure to insured if you get hurt.

+gear head Interesting, who was your Uncle?

+jenny minny . Hello Jenny. This property along with the 3 joining properties are actually still zoned as commercial mines and each of us land owners own the mineral rights. Trespassing is never the right choice and due to the zoning removal of rock is illegal. Much the same as us entering your back yard and say removing your new patio furniture. For this reason I give daily tours of the 14 mines ( only the shallow entrances were filled ). By todays mining standards this area would be considered test holes. The previous owner was quite the character with many stories to tell. Madoc Township has so many different minerals but all the mines are privately owned. Bancroft is the area for collecting sites.

this place is truly remarkable for its history. I'm sure the next few years will reveal a lot more exciting stuff. I'm curious to see what the swamp reveals when dredged.

+Caver461 I look forward to showing you the remaining mines. The Union mine ( originally called the Anglo-Saxon) and the Wellington plus 7 others I'm still trying to place with their companies. August 15 this summer the goldmine turns 150 years old.

+jenny minny No, you don't have to learn French, but if you are in Quebec it helps to learn French. Eldorado is in Ontario so no French is needed.

+jenny minny . All tiny farms in this area have mining holes of some type. Gold silver copper iron florite and talc, the list is huge and with the title of the property you have surface rights. Many of these properties also have the mineral rights included. The mining was attempted 150 years ago with minimal equipment. Blasting powder and fire) The majority of holes no deeper then 10 feet. In a 5 mile radius we can collect almost every crystal from celestite to diamonds. ( Sophia Gold and Diamond Mine). Cost of living is low, crime rate even lower and we don't speak French without a translator.

+DrStef The mines are a half hour south of Bancroft or 3 minutes north of Madoc. 62 highway. I always travel highway 7 and avoid the traffic. Its only a 2 hour drive from Markham.

Kim Kipling There is also a rock shop here and some beautiful specimens.

i'm sure Kim would have no objection - ask her

Matthew Courville Hi Matt - I'm a big fan of the mindat site and generally check out locations that I am to visit on the mindat site before I go there. Sadly there seems to be a difficulty for me to leave a comment even though I am registered, otherwise I'm sure you would have seen me a little more involved there.

Caver461 Sorry to hear that, is this a technicality or is there more to it? You should go back to the Miller property for some of that beautiful amazonite....but it's a bit hidden from the main area;) Also for interest, I once talked to a club member at the Laflech caves in Quebec and he revealved that 80-90% of the caves in the area are on low-key private lands. It might be worth networking in the area?

Matthew Courville Thanks for the tips, the cave network is pretty tight and I believe it was Marc-andre or Corneile that you spoke to at LaFleche (marc is the head guide). I've done a fair bit of caving with them. I would love to devote a trip to amazonite. Not sure what is going on with the mindat, I'll try figure it out tonight. I had wanted to comment on some stuff from Michael Adomiwicz and also the Madoc trip by Frank Festa - it is truly a good resource and the articles are invaluable. I have a few videos in the lineup - next one was from some great finds Jeff and I scored at Bear Lake. Just waiting for a bit before that goes up.

Caver461 I agree, Frank and Michael have contrubuted greatly to minerals/localities in the area. I've been trying to find some new spots lately myself, but you have to live with dissapointment at times, but sometimes.....;) Perhaps you could try creating an entirely new page with a variation of your name to avoid the issues. Good luck

Matthew Courville I'm thinking of the Tait property soon. My sister is neighbor to one of the Taits and the mine is within walking distance. I took a short recon to the area about a month ago, but had not located the exact place, I am visiting again in a couple of weeks so I'll make a better effort then.