Buffalo Red Lake Mines

1980 to 1982
  • Incorporated as Buffalo Red Lake Mines in 1928 to acquire 13 claims from the Buffalo Red Lake Syndicate (staked by the Cochenour brothers) and 13 claims from Red Lake Prospectors Syndicate
  • Not a lot of work done on the sites but 1945-46 sunk 2 level shaft
    • After sporadic gold levels found no other work done
  • Buffalo Mines succeeded Buffalo Red Lake Mines and sank new decline shaft
  • Produced between 1980 and 1982 (only produced 1,556 oz.)
  • Between 1980 and 1981 Wilanour Resources completed 6600 meters of surface drilling—also excavated a small open pit
    • Processed a bulk sample of 31986 tons of ore from the open pit and underground 1563 ounces of gold were recovered
    • Average grade 0.064 oz/ton
  • Property currently held by Claude Resources of Saskatoon
  • The Buffalo Syndicate claims were first staked by William and Edward Cochenour in September 1925, as they were the first men to be told of the Howey discovery and immediately came in secret to Red Lake
  • The Consolidated Buffalo Red Lake Mines was officially out of business when their charter was cancelled in 1977
  • The most recent work in the area has been performed by Pure Gold Incorporated in order to locate tourmaline hotspots
  • Drilling proved values to a depth of 131.15 m.
  • In February 13 of 2014, it was found through assaying, and performing inferred tests that the gold grade appears to be in-between 1.15-1.32 grams per ton, and that a massive 2 million tons of order are still left be to extracted on the property.


The most recent work in the area has been performed by Pure Gold Incorporated in order to locate tourmaline hotspots (O’Brien 2014)
The most recent work in the area has been performed by Pure Gold Incorporated in order to locate tourmaline hotspots (O’Brien 2014)