2003 Silver Dollar 100th Anniv. Discovery Of Silver, Cobalt

Great story and very nice looking coin. Thanks for the photos.

Thanks for that Lucv13, it would be neat to tour though that museum and see the old mining artifacts. They were tough people opening up Canada with rail. The riches that were in the ground were waiting to be discovered.

It is neat to collect a theme to which I have a connection.
You are correct Commems;

As I noted above, the story is definitely legend; here is the rest of the narrative.

On the COA -

"The account above could be largely exaggeration, but does
hold two verifiable facts true; the discovery was
accidental and it did occur in 1903.

At the time, Ontario's railway was inching its way into the
northeast region of the province to open up new
agricultural lands. Contractors J.H. McKinley and Ernest
Darraugh were hired to supply rail ties. In the summer of
1903, they were surveying the area of Long Lake (later
Cobalt Lake) for timber when glittering rocks strewn on the
shoreline caught their eyes. Tom Hebert, another railway
employee who was also prospecting on nearby
Nipissing Hill, found vein after vein exposed at the
surface. It was silver, the richest silver deposit the
world had seen thus far.

Within months, McKinley and Darraugh opened Cobalt's first
silver mine. Dozens of mining companies followed and the
success they experienced in Cobalt spurred the continued
exploration of the North - Canada's mining industry was
born."

On the coin the mine headframe is in the background,
stylized veins of silver ore run across the reverse and a
fox darts through the scene.

great story and great coin!