The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 23, 1954, Page 6

a . ————SS bags magic word in Canada today is uranium, the fuel that powers atomic energy. As inthe gold tush days, thousands of prospectors are roaming the wild western country of northern Alberta and Saskatchewan carrying Geiger counters and staking claims. Big mining companies are making exten- sive explorations. Now Eastern Canada has emerged with a major uranium find. It is located between Sault Ste. Marie and Sudbury in Ontario. Canada’s uranium industry is government con- trolled, although private interests may mine uranium. They must sell their ore to the crown- owned Eldorado Mining and Refining Ltd. Most of its operations, including production figures and prices, are secret. Eldorado, the biggest, with a staff of 806, operates uranium ore mines at Port Radium in the Northwest Territories and the Beaverlodge area o Northwestern Alberta and Saskatchewan. aS CLOSE AT HAND. At Province of Alberta’s tarsands pilot plant in Bitumont, W. R. Willis examines sample of tarsand in area where uranium has been located, URANIUM MINERS. Workers at Nes- bitt LaBine Uranium Mines Limited at Beaverlodge, Saskatchewan, a few miles from the Eldorado * property, are shown leaving the mine. Headframe is shown in background. IN MINE DEPTHS. Driller at work in the Nesbitt LaBine uranium mine at Beaverlodge. BOOM TOWN. Workers at Eldorado’s mines and mills live in this modern housing de- ANIUM FIND n Wedge uses Geiger counter velopment corved out of *ing av ieerness at Besverlodge, Saskatchewan, on spot where prospectors have recently dug trench.