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...came to blow the fighter strip. There was grey over the hills and we were eating the last bacon & eggs at the table. Demolition bombs hammered the air above, beyond, all about us with their concussion. Sometimes the blast would be infinitesimal, other times it would catch and rock...
...Noranda, in western Quebec, an old prospector slammed down four bags of gold ore on a hotel bar and shouted: "You don't have to figure what this rock runs to the ton; it assays by the pound." At the O'Brien mine near Kirkland Lake, Ont., speculators caressed a new-found slab of what mining men call "jewelry"-a ten-pound chunk of practically pure gold worth $2,000. At Noranda's golf course, golfers played around two gold-drilling sites smack in the middle of a fairway. The gold stock market reached its highest point...
Gold fever ran its highest temperatures in Ontario's remote Midlothian township. There Prospector Felix Roche found a seam of gold-rich green rock at least 425 feet wide. The site is reached by portaging through a chain of lakes. Just seven days later, the 36 square miles of Midlothian township were staked solid...
...Find. Geologists first stumbled on traces of iron around Steep Rock Lake, 40 miles north of the Minnesota border, in 1891. In the early 1900s, Harvard Geologist H. L. Smyth decided the main deposit might be under the lake itself. In 1930, Julian G. Cross, an Ontario prospector, poked around the site, came away sure he had something...
Chief problem: to drain Steep Rock Lake, which is fed by the Seine River. It was first necessary to lower the level of nearby Finlayson Lake 57 ft., then divert the Seine into it. Dams were built, canals and tunnels cut. Once the Seine was diverted, 14 mammoth barge-mounted pumps began sucking 125 billion gallons of water out of Steep Rock Lake itself...