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Prospector Austin McVeigh, who had made one of the famed gold strikes at Red Lake, Ont. kept mighty quiet about the discovery he made afterwards. Ranging the muskeg around Lynn Lake in 1941, he caught sight of a likely looking outcropping. The samples he took had traces of nickel and copper. Prospector McVeigh took back his boss, Eldon L. Brown, president of Sherritt Gordon Mines, to prospect further. Their magnetometer, which detects ore bodies magnetically, indicated a huge body of ore below the muskeg...
...Gordon Mines did not have enough planes to rush in prospectors and supplies, it decided to keep the discovery to itself until it had diamond-drilled and staked the area. Not until last month did Brown disclose the full extent of his find to the Manitoba Chamber of Mines. Lynn Lake, he said, seemed to be the richest nickel strike on the North American continent since Sudbury, Ont. (1880s) - and the only important one not controlled by International Nickel, which supplies the U.S. with most of its nickel...
Brown said his company had explored the whole Lynn Lake area. The drills had bitten into three separate ore bodies estimated to total up to 5,000,000 tons. That was all Canadians wanted to know...
...last week, prospectors were racing into the Lynn Lake area by bush plane. Flyers who circled Lynn Lake saw so many snowshoe tracks on the ground they looked like chicken runs. Around the lake a busy settlement had sprung up. Log cabins and prefabricated houses had been hauled north on sleighs. Tractor trains clanked in from Sherridon carrying hundreds of tons of supplies at a time. (On the return trip they carried back ore for extraction at a pilot plant set up in Sherridon.) There was talk of laying a spur railroad line from Sherridon north to Lynn Lake...
Father Feeney, a native of Lynn, studied at Woodstock College, the Sorbonne, and Oxford before coming here in 1931 to teach English at Boston College. He is the author of numerous volumes of prose and verse, and several biographies. Among his better-known works are "Riddle and Reverie," "The Brown Derby," and "Fish on Friday." At present, he is stationed at St. Benedict's Center...