Exploring Abandoned Steep Rock Mines Atikokan Ontario

Growing up in the '60's I remember the switcher locos pushing the ore cars on the trestles over Fort William Road and Memorial Avenue! The system designed to last 100 years shut down after only 40! The ore dock is still there but the trestles are long gone. Very nostalgic look at what remains at the mine!

I was working up there 6 years ago. Explored that area myself the view is amazing. Great video

Thanx good video and I guess a lot of that iron ore made it down here into Hamilton Ont Steel Mills where I handled a lot of the production that came out of the mills over at Westinghouse Air Brake where we made anything under a box car for 35 yrs

As a kid in the 90s and early 2000's I used to explore the steep Rock mine area. I used to swim in highland lake not far from the main office building. I believe steep Rock was the largest open mine pit in north America for its time. And the open pit has slowly been filling with contaminated water. As a kid it was only about half way full from any of the more recent videos I have seen of the pit, like there used to be an island in the middle.of the open pit with trees growing on it, now the island is submerged. Another fact i believe to be true was the iron from steep rock was the purest raw iron from the ground or cleanest raw iron. And there will be many buildings and other mining equipment buried. And the lake is pronounce fin-la-sin just say it fast as one word.

Also, those pellets were red brown in colour and rather smooth.

Fun fact...actually a happy guess now...the volume of steel produced from Steep Rock would have been sufficient to build half of all cars in North America. Someone should fact check this though...

Is anything at all left? We just got back from a road trip and tried exploring this place. We understood things had been destroyed, but we couldn’t find a single thing to look at. Was hoping for at least the cement part with the blocked off shaft, but we were even unable to locate that. It’s so sad, what they’ve done.

your videos are very fun and i learn something new

Back in the 1950's my dad worked for GE that installed power equipment for the mine. I have pictures that he took back then. Dad was probably one of the ones that installed the transformers. That was the kind of job he did back then.

My mom and dad worked at Caland (key~land). I recall a rumour that the buried building has many of the trucks parked within it. I remember the town was dusted red during...

Fantastic Work 🤓

Dad (Walt Bannister) was General Manager at Steep Rock. He was pushing for a pellet plant, and was instrumental in its eventual construction. The Lions Club gave him a rabbit to tide him over until then.

!

The guy sounds like he is out of breath