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...Algom operation is (the two mines and mills have a daily ore-processing capacity of 6,000 tons, double the largest U.S. operation), their output will be only a fraction of Rio Tinto's eventual production. The company's three Northspan mines ($275 million in government contracts) are set to start producing before the end of 1957; its Milliken Lake mine ($94 million in contracts) by March 1958. Rio Tinto's smaller Pronto mine (1,250 tons of ore daily) was opened in 1955 but ran into production troubles, now being taken care of in an enlargement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: Flow at Blind River | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

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