The Archive · 1938

Ottawa, Ontario, Aug. 18

Canadian gold mines produced 390,693 ounces of gold during the month of June, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics reported here. This output surpasses all previous monthly records. Output in May amounted to 381089 ounces and in June, 1937, $44,895 ounces.

Output from mines in Ontario amounted to 237,512 ounces of the total during the month under review. 101,709 ounces of this came from the rich Porcupine camp, 88,055 from the Kirkland Lake area and 47,748 from other sources.

Quebec operators reported production of 64,413 ounces, British Columbia, 54,176, Manitoba and Saskatchewan, 20895, Yukon 1104. Nova Scottia 2,588.—Reuter.

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