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Uranium for Bombs. From the outset, Canada was a close partner with the U.S. in the atomic-bomb program. Howe took over the subArctic Eldorado mine and stepped up its output to provide uranium for the first bombs. His production skill and quick thinking won him high regard in Washington, even though he was a notably tough bargainer for Canada. "What a quarterback C. D. Howe would have made," said F.D.R. "If one play fails, he always has another one up his sleeve...
...Contrary to Gould, they said that they had invested $145,000 in reopening Caribou (which had been abandoned in the late '20s), after they found uranium-bearing pitchblende in the tailings of the mine. During World War II, Boris Pregel, 57, was general agent for Canada's Eldorado Mining & Refining Co., which supplied the Manhattan Project with nearly all the uranium mined on the North American continent...
Fugitives from Nanking and Shanghai snarled and haggled their way through Canton's grimly thorough customs inspectors, then burst into a boom town. Canton this week was Reno and Juarez, Galveston and Eldorado-all wrapped up in dazzling, neon-splashed tapestry...
Last week, government atomic experts were hoping it would all turn out to be as good as it looked. The new find is only two miles from a highway, and is right on the line of traffic down the Great Lakes, much handier than distant Eldorado, in the Northwest Territories, Canada's only proved source of uranium. Toronto investors were willing to bet big money that the new strike was the real thing. By week's end, shares in Campbell's syndicate, which he peddled last spring for $25 apiece, were bringing bids of $1,000. Prospector...
...year-old prospector named Ernest Johnson started it all. In two years of experience with radioactive ores around the Eldorado mine on Great Bear Lake, he had noticed that where there was uranium there were also cobalt and nickel. Figuring that the converse should be true, he packed a Geiger counter and pushed up the Roxey Creek valley, 120 miles north of Vancouver, where fallen rock bearing cobalt "bloom" lay in the creek...