The facility · Cobalt, Ontario

A real place. A useful starting point.

At 1 Presley Street, TTL’s laboratory and mineral-testing heritage provides a setting for conversations about samples, technical work and the facility’s next chapter.

Brick buildings beside the water in Cobalt, from the TTL archive.
The Cobalt facility · archive photograph

1 Presley Street

Connect the project to the place.

A material program needs more than a list of equipment. It needs a suitable location, an agreed approach and a clear understanding of what the work requires.

Tell us about your laboratory, preparation or operating requirements. We can discuss the spaces, the proposed scope and whether a site visit would be a useful next step.

Inside the TTL archive

A closer look at the working spaces.

These photographs document the facility’s laboratory history. Discuss current equipment and space requirements with TTL when planning a program.

Blue sample preparation machinery inside the laboratory.
Sample preparation area · archive photograph
An analytical instrument on a laboratory bench.
Analytical bench · archive photograph

Roots in the Cobalt camp

A history with more than one chapter.

Black-and-white archival photograph of the historic industrial facility.
Historical facility photograph · TTL archive
  1. 1921

    The early facility

    The facility’s published history dates its establishment to 1921. Its industrial history includes a later period of decommissioning.

  2. 2000

    The PolyMet chapter

    PolyMet Labs purchased the facility and developed its laboratory and mineral-testing role.

  3. 2020

    Relaunched as TTL

    A change of ownership brought the Temiskaming Testing Laboratories name.

  4. Next

    A project with a purpose

    New work begins with a defined requirement and a conversation about the facility’s fit.

Historical milestones are drawn from TTL’s previously published facility history.

Two distinct locations

Confirm where the work belongs.

The laboratory address is 1 Presley Street, Cobalt, Ontario P0J 1C0. The geological-support coreshack described in TTL’s published information is on Highway 11 in Coleman.

Contact TTL to confirm the location and arrangements before visiting or shipping material.

Read about geological support

Start a conversation

See a role for this facility in your project?

Tell us about the work, the opportunity and what you would need to move it forward.

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