your prospecting career

on digging gold or selling shovels

Up the lake there are two abandoned mines.

Both were carved out in search of gold.

One, at the top of a hill is entirely underwater. It hasn’t been explored.

The other goes into the side of a hill.

It’s labeled a ‘bat sanctuary’ and there is a gate in front of it.

There aren’t many bats there. There aren’t many left in the province these days.

And the gate?

It’s easy to take apart. The opening is easy to get in.

There you’ll find evidence of years of work and struggle. in the form of hundreds of feet of space carved into the bedrock.

They found lots of materials there, but despite the right kind of land forms and rocks, there wasn’t much gold found.

Fast forward a hundred years and travel thirty miles up the province and you’ll find Mooseland.

Mooseland was always known for its gold mining. In the last twenty years, the mine has re opened. It’s no longer a shaft, but an open pit. Apparently an Aussie gold company has found a way to make blowing open the earth ‘worth it’ when it comes to findi…