Manitowadge Geco and Wilroy Mines

Sep 21-23, 2018

Manitowadge Geco and Wilroy Mines, Sept 21-23, 2018

The Thunder Bay Geology and Lapidary Club planed a 2.5 day field trip to Manitowadge to visit the Geco and Wilroy Copper and other precious metals mines. We also visited the Local Museum and Municipal offices as well as some local beaches.

Here is some mine information.

Trip EMail Notice

Hello TBGLC Members

The club is looking into a two and a half day field trip to Manitouwadge to visit the Geco and Wilroy Mine sites.  Departure would be friday aft to sunday evening.

The mines primarily produced copper and gold starting from the 1950s and closed in the 1990s.  There is a local motel there and participants would be responsible for making their own room bookings in advance. There are two restaurants, pizza shop and Esso Gas bar in town.

The field trip would generally follow this proposed schedule:

The club is currently looking for those that can commit to this trip on one of the following weekends (we assume that a weekend trip will interest more members): So if you are able to commit please pick a weekend and respond via email to this email. The reason we need an early and firm commitment is to submit a proposal to the Mine management so they know when and how many are coming on-site. Thanks in advance for your quick response to this event so we can get started on the final planning. Add any questions you may have. If you want to go ahead and book a room in advance then feel free to do so. 

IMPORTANT: Please Read and Respond via email by Aug 26th at the latest, stating which weekend below you are committing to and how many are coming. We will confirm the list of participants then and start arranging carpooling, rooms, etc that week.

Note, You only need to respond if your are coming. Thank You

Accommodations

Manitowadge Motel has single rooms for $75 and two bed rooms for $95. Breakfast is served. I am told it had major renovations recently.  All rooms have private bathrooms and showers.  Their phone number is 807-826-4949.

Special thanks to Clair Pilgrim and Gerry White for gathering the information and contacts required to make this trip happen. 

Attendance: 8