Fifty-seven per cent of our gold mines have developed out of properties which had been abandoned or became otherwise dormant.
Only 36 1/2 % have been de veloped directly and con tinuously from the original discovery.
Six and one-quarter percent of the total of 108 mines have been developed by virtue of their holding claims adjacent to known producers. Reprinted from The Northern Miner, February, 1938
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