THE NORTHERN MINER; JUNE 1940

U.S. NAVY NEEDS MORE ARMOR PLATE

The largest awards on record for one time have been made by the U.S. Navy Department involving 22 ships to cost some $327 million. They include two 45,000-ton cruisers, 10 destroyers, six submarines and several submarine and seaplane tenders.

The program undoubtedly will create a tremendous demand for armor plate and hosts of other metals specialties. On May 10, 68 vessels were under construction for the U.S. Navy.

WIDTHS IMPRESSIVE FOR MISSANABIE GOLD

Impressive showings of quartz carrying interesting gold values have been uncovered in the Missanabie area, site of Canada’s only current gold rush, 11 or 12 miles in a straight line northeast of Missanabie station on the Canadian Pacific Railway main line west of Sudbury. On surface, the main break looks long and strong, and three wide quartz veins on the same general line of strike are exposed over a length of 3,500 ft. The principal showings are controlled by Macassa Mines.

Typical of the best values, for instance, one trench sampled an uncut average of $17.86 over 18.5 ft. and another one gave $28.28 across 19 ft.

HEAVY RECRUITING WORRIES MINES

The Canadian mining industry, particularly in Ontario, is very much worried by a paradoxical situation that has arisen with respect to recruiting.

The government is asking the mines, on the one hand, to produce all the gold, copper, nickel, zinc, lead etc. of which they are capable.

The government, on the other hand, is recruiting its best men in an enlisting drive that has lately assumed intensity and high proportions.

Already many mines find their production effort crippled and if the recruiting goes on at the present pace for even a matter of weeks, ouput at these mines will be lowered.

HIGH-GRADE VEIN AT LITTLE LONG LAC

Little Long Lac Gold Mines has opened close to 400 ft. of high-grade ore length in the new parallel vein, lying 100 ft. south of the westerly workings in the main vein on the bottom 16th level, The Northern Miner has learned.

At $35 gold, grade works out to $23 per ton in the west drift and $30.90 per ton in the east drift.

CON MINE FINDS NEW OREBODY

The Con mine of the Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co. at Yellowknife, N.W.T. has uncovered an orebody on the 500-ft. level, The Northern Miner learns. The ore is unlike anything previously developed on the property and is much lower-grade. However, widths are considerably greater, possibly around 25 ft.