Word: marmora
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ceremonial sendoff marked the official opening of Canada's newest major mining venture, Bethlehem Steel's open-pit operation at Marmora, Ont., which will provide jobs for some 270 residents of the industry-poor region. Trade and Commerce Minister C. D. Howe, in a speech at the ceremony, spotlighted another point of significance for Canada's fast-growing iron mining industry: "With the opening of Steep Rock in northwestern Ontario, the Quebec-Labrador mines, and this mine...
...Marmora iron deposit first appeared as some interesting squiggles on a geomagnetic map drawn after a 1949 aerial survey sponsored by the federal and provincial governments. Bethlehem quietly bought up options, then began probing the subsurface rocks with diamond drills...
...world's hungry steel mills gulp away the known supplies of high-grade ore, the Marmora operation may point the way to development of other well-located deposits of low-grade...