Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bleak Ungava,* the stunted tamarack had turned burnt amber and each morning light snow frosted the tough caribou moss. For the engineers probing the biggest iron ore deposit since Minnesota's Mesabi, it was time to call it a summer. Day after day a little Norseman seaplane dipped down on to Quebec and Labrador lakes, picked up men and supplies, moved them back to the main base at Burnt Creek (pop. 190). This week the twelve drills were operating close by Burnt Creek. Next week they would be silent, and the year's work would...
Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines Ltd. of Montreal and its U.S. partner in the Ungava venture, the M. A. Hanna Co. of Cleveland (which holds a 40% interest), were happy over the summer's work. Their engineers had already proved 300 million tons of high-grade ore...
...Gamble. Geologists have long known of the vast iron ore riches in the trough straddling the border of Quebec and Labrador. When Dominion Geologist A. P. Low talked about the deposits 50 years ago, Mesabi was just coming into its own, and nobody was interested in the subArctic wilderness. In 1937, when Quebec Geologist Joe Retty came out of Ungava with a more detailed report of high-grade iron ore, Mesabi was still king. But as war demand cut deep into Mesabi, Retty's reports became more interesting. By 1942 Hollinger President Jules Timmins was ready to gamble...
...rich was the lode that drilling was done only where ore could be reached readily. One of the best deposits was found by accident when a new-type drill was tested at the Burnt Creek camp site. The drill bit down into the earth, struck rich ore at two feet, was still in it when drilling was stopped at 367 feet...
Before Hollinger can move a ton of ore, it must build a railroad to the St. Lawrence at Seven Islands, where it is ice-free about ten months out of the year. The survey for the 360-mile rail line ($100 million to build and equip) will be finished next year. The line will take three years to complete. Hollinger already has an eye on Eaton Canyon's 350-ft, waterfall, with its 500,000 h.p. potential, for a power source. Production in Ungava is probably five years away, and some $200 million will be poured into it before...