Charleson Recreation Area
About Charleson Recreation Area
Actual construction on the site started on July 16, 1957, and its concentrator plant housed 11 separating units, a garage and an office. There were five Euclids and dumps and two scrapers in operation, and over the years the mine employed between 75-90 workers. In 1958, general supervisor John Maki expected the open pit operation to produce for up to 30 years. The first shipments went out by rail to the Lakehead that year.
The operation closed in the fall of 1960 (the same year the garage was gutted by fire) and remained closed until it was taken over in 1961 by Oglebay Norton Co. of Cleveland, which previously had a one-third interest in the company. They resumed operations in early 1962 with 88 employees (77 hourly-rated and 11 staff), and operated until September of that year, shipping a total of 120,000 tons. Charleson closed permanently in 1964, its best production year with 190,000 tons. In the company’s five years of operation, production totalled 600-700,000 tons.
Contact Charleson Recreation Area
| Address : | 20 Charleson Pit Road, Atikokan, ON P0T 1C0, Canada |
| Phone : | 📞 +8797 |
| Website : | https://charlesonrecreationarea.com/ |
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★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Beautiful area, especially with the fall colours!
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