50 YEARS AGO (January 01, 1992)

FOREIGNERS

PROMINENT AT

KIRKLAND STRIKE

The strike at Kirkland Lake is now in its seventh week. The financial assistance which was to have come in from sympathetic unionists has proven scanty. One powerful fact is that a large number of the men out on strike are of alien birth; they are men who cannot be reached by the arguments which influence English-reading miners and they are susceptible victims of the wiles and intimidating tactics of the skillful CIO agitators.

BIG COPPER MINE OPENED IN ARIZONA

The greatest new copper development in the United States — Phelps Dodge Corp.’s $35-million open pit mine — will begin production about Jan. 15. At a time when every effort is being made to increase copper production, a mountain of copper ore in eastern Arizona is ready for the smelters after five years of preliminary work.

COCHENOUR WILLANS OPENS RICH ORE

Cochenour Willans Gold Mines is developing an amazing length of high grade in the important northeast ore area on the second level. The principal orebody, No. 221, shows a length of 400 ft., and still going. The first 265 ft. had a reported average of $54 across 5.5 ft.

POWER LOSSES

AT ISLAND FALLS

Churchill River Power Co. Ltd., wholly-owned subsidiary of Hudson Bay Mining, has filed for a license to regulate and control the flow of water from Reindeer Lake. A water control dam is to be built at Whitesand Rapids on the Reindeer River.

REEVES-MACDONALD

MAY PRODUCE ZINC

Negotiations to equip Reeves-MacDonald Mines’ property for production have reached an advanced stage. The projected mill would handle approximately 2,000 tons of ore daily and would call for an investment in the vicinity of $1 million.

HOLLINGER IN

LABRADOR IRON

It is learned that proposals are afloat which could result in the extensive exploration and development of the iron deposits in Labrador held under concession by Labrador Mining and Exploration Co. The name of Hollinger Consolidated has been mentioned in this connection.

PTARMIGAN POURS

FIRST GOLD BAR

The first bar of gold produced by the Ptarmigan Mines Ltd. was poured Jan. 4. The mine is about six miles south of Yellowknife, N.W.T., and is the fourth mine to go into operation in the area. The gold bar weighed more than 1,000 oz.

SULLIVAN OUTPUT

HITS NEW HIGH

Sullivan Consolidated wound up the year 1941 with a record-breaking quarter, bringing the year’s output to a new high of $1,365,342, an increase of $117,637 over 1940. The mill is now up to the objective set when expansion of the plant was undertaken last summer. n