Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ernie Johnson tracked this float ore to its source, high on the mountain face, where there was an abandoned gold mine, hopefully named Jewel...
...better & better kicks as I climbed," says Ernie. "In the mine, they became a roar." He sent samples of ore to Ottawa and staked some claims. That Johnson had found uranium was officially confirmed, but the quality and quantity were secret and unknown. It would take a year or two, and tens of thousands of dollars, to prove the ore body...
...exception was Republic Steel Corp.'s Tom M. Girdler. In 1938, to find out whether Adirondack ore was rich enough to warrant its cost, he leased the Mineville and Port Henry properties from the Witherbee Sherman Corp. Girdler soon bought up another ancient mine and 115,000 acres in the mineral-rich Chateaugay district, dug shafts, built mills and narrow-gauge railroads. The Government helped him get labor. During the war it financed the building of his dormitory villages with churches, hospitals and a swimming pool. Last week Republic had an Adirondack working force of 1,550, and Girdler...
...years Republic had upped production from 700,000 to 1,400,000 tons a year, or one-sixth of all Republic's needs. Republic thought the day was not too distant when all its steel would be made from Adirondack ores. Its Adirondack ore reserves were big enough to keep the company in pig iron for 50 years...
Other steel companies have followed Republic's lead. All told, mining companies have spent more than $40 million to develop Adirondack mines. Adirondack ores are costlier to dig, but have a richer iron content than those from Minnesota's famed Mesabi range, which still supplies the U.S. with 83% of all its iron. Steelmen, who know that Mesabi has only ten years of high-grade ore production left, think New York's old iron mining country is finally coming into...