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...null mountain of ore was discovered seven years ago in a worldwide iron search by U.S. Steel Corp. Since then, Orinoco Mining Co., U.S. Steel's Venezuelan subsidiary, has been working on the problems of how to get the stuff out of such a remote, tropical place. Cerro Bolivar ore coats the top of the mountain like a turtle shell. It is brought down in 93-car trains which have to be eased cautiously down a 3% grade for nine miles under smoking brakes. Against the chance that the brakes might fail, special sidetracks were built to switch...
...baseball-sized chunks of iron ore tumbling into the hold of a Swedish freighter. When the ship was properly "topped off," her hatchcovers were closed and she steamed downstream with the first cargo of ore for the U.S. from the steel-hungry 20th century's greatest ore find, Cerro Bolivar...
...over chaparral-covered sand, amidst flapping egrets, toward the low mountain. Next morning he climbed 1,600 feet to the top. The view filled him with awe. The rust-colored lode he saw was later described as "the richest concentration of iron ore on the face of the earth." Cerro Bolívar, as the mountain was named, is estimated to contain half a billion tons of top-grade (63.8% pure) iron...
That was six years ago. Last week Cerro Bolívar and the land around it swarmed with 7,000 men and their machines. Early next year the ore will start flowing north; by 1955 it will be feeding U.S. Steel's new Fairless plant on the Delaware River and supplying 10% of U.S. needs...
...Mining Cerro Bolívar will be no easy task. Giant power shovels (the first were arriving this month) will scoop up blasted ore and load it on to trucks which will carry it to the railway (now being built). The 10,000-ton ore trains will roll through the chaparral 90 miles northeast to the black Caroni River, tributary of the Orinoco. For the workers a new town, Ciudad Piar, is sprouting at the foot of Cerro Bolívar, and a new port, Puerto Ordaz, has already been built on the Caroni...