Word: chibougamau
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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Beside an ice-blue lake deep in the glacier-scoured hills of central Quebec, spinning diamond drills last week probed and measured a great new underground treasure trove. In Chibougamau, 320 miles north of Montreal, the discovery of a vast deposit of copper ore has set off a lively boom in the wilderness and assured the free world an important new source of a scarce and strategic metal...
...Chibougamau* was a long time coming into its own. For more than half a century. Canadian mining men knew of its copper-ore outcroppings, but because of lack of transportation saw no way to mine them at a profit. As late as 1950, when a road finally reached Chibougamau, the town consisted of little more than a rundown general store and a couple of bootleggers who sold illicit liquor to passing trappers. Then, with little fanfare, Campbell Chibougamau Mines Ltd. in 1952 sewed up a U.S. Government contract for its output, the next year started to sink a shaft. Last...
Unfilled Orders. In almost every part of the country, there was tangible evidence of industrial and business activity to back up Howe's statistics. In the Quebec wilderness, 325 miles north of Montreal, Canadian National Railways is building a $35 million line to Chibougamau, a newly developed copper field. At Hamilton, Ont., the big Steel Co. of Canada, which has spent $100 million on new mills since 1950, reported with rueful pride that it was a full year behind on some orders -and promptly laid on an additional $70 million expansion program. Western oil production increased nearly one-third...