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Who Discovered The Silver Sidewalk In Cobalt, Ontario, Canada?

July 11, 2020 by Karen Hill

Like gold, silver comes in many different forms. It comes as pure silver when it is found as nuggets, slabs, and in wires.

The wires are sometimes thick, but sometimes they are as fragile and thin as the electric wires you have in your house. This is supposedly the finest silver you can find.

However, the “silver sidewalk” was a piece of solid silver that could make you rich. It was found at the La Roa Mine in Cobalt, Ontario, Canada. This huge piece of silver was as long as a ten-story building and as deep as six stories. It consisted of 658,000 ounces of pure silver.

A great nugget of pure silver that weighed 1,842 pounds was taken from the Smuggler’s Mine in Aspen, Colorado, and had to be hauled out by huge chains because it was so heavy.

The Silver Sidewalk was discovered by 2 Railroad workers, J.H, McKinley and Ernest Darragh in 1903.

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About Karen Hill

Karen Hill is a freelance writer, editor, and columnist. Born in New York, her work has appeared in the Examiner, Yahoo News, Buzzfeed, among others.

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