Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bright spots remained. Output of electrical energy had hit an alltime high, glass production again was normal. Belgium's rich Congo Colony piled up lush foreign exchange by exporting annually up to 5 billion francs' worth of copper, palm oil, diamonds and secret quantities of uranium ore (of which Belgians believe the Congo contains half the world's known supply...
...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...
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...
...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...
There was no vegetation around the lakes, but there was plenty of ice-free rock which looked to non-geological Navy eyes as if it might be ore-bearing. There was no steam or other evidence of volcanic activity...