{"id":1124891,"date":"2019-07-04T20:37:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T20:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=995781"},"modified":"2019-07-04T20:37:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T20:37:04","slug":"kirkland-lake-marks-100-years-with-bronze-miner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1124891","title":{"rendered":"Kirkland Lake marks 100 years with bronze miner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The town of Kirkland Lake is marking its 100th anniversary with the dedication of a life-size bronze likeness of an early Twentieth Century miner. <\/p>\n<div class='d-flex justify-content-center'>\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0'><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0');});<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Kirkland-Lake-prospector-statue-756x1024-756x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-995784\" width=\"274\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Kirkland-Lake-prospector-statue-756x1024.jpg 756w, https:\/\/www.mining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Kirkland-Lake-prospector-statue-756x1024-221x300.jpg 221w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><figcaption> <em>Bronze sculpture of a prospector and his dog erected to mark Kirkland Lake\u2019s 100th anniversary. (Image: Tyler Fauvelle)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The work of Sudbury sculptor Tyler Fauvelle was unveiled on June 29, 2019 at the Toburn mine. Fauvelle has more than a dozen public&nbsp;monuments in Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough the artwork is a tribute to all of the Kirkland Lake gold camp prospectors, I did include some features representing some of Kirkland Lake\u2019s legendary prospectors. I hope visitors will enjoy looking for those symbols, and learning about the local history behind them,\u201d Fauvelle said.<\/p>\n<p>The monument project was spearheaded by the Toburn Operating Authority (TOA), a non-profit organization that maintains the restored Toburn mine. Major funding was provided by the Department of Canadian Heritage,&nbsp;Kirkland Lake Gold, the Museum of Northern History, and the Kirkland Lake 100th Anniversary Committee. The town of Kirkland Lake provided the bronze plaque, and the TOA covered the site costs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmall communities can be powerful,\u201d Fauvelle added.&nbsp;\u201cThe spirit of those hardy prospectors still lives in Kirkland Lake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared in the <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadianminingjournal.com\/news\/gold-great-bear-raises-11m-in-flow-through-shares\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Canadian Mining Journal<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The monument project was spearheaded by a non-profit organization that maintains the restored Toburn mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2648,624,369],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1124891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1124892,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124891\/revisions\/1124892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1124891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1124891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1124891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}