Bags of silver ore awaiting shipment at the Cobalt camp’s LaRose property, July 15, 1905. Credit: The Northern Miner
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Standing atop Nipissing Hill Lookout, the history of the surrounding town of Cobalt, Ont. is in full view. There’s the town itself, Cobalt Lake and the decades-old remains of legacy mine infrastructure such as headframes and wooden mills. Look further out and squint, and on a sunny day a set of distant squares of solar panels reflect back bright white light.
The tranquil streets and dusty old mining buildings of Cobalt might make it hard to believe that this community – where less than 1,000 people live – once hosted one of the three great silver rushes of the Americas.
In 1545, a group of Spanish conquistadors in what is now Bolivia founded the silver mining town of Potosi, located more than 4,000…
