INCO

MARCH 1972

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• Inco mined 28,200,000 wet tons of ore in 1971, compared with28,300,000 tons in 1970.• 1971 free-world nickel consumption is estimated at 825 millionpounds, down 15 per cent from 1970's record level of 975 millionpounds.• Total inventories at year-end were $465,448,000, an increase ofnearly $180 million compared to the previous year. Most of thisincrease was in finished and in-process nickel.• On December 31, 1971, Inco had proven ore reserves in Canadaof 387 million dry tons, containing 12.6 billion pounds of nickeland eight billion pounds of copper.• During the year Inco borrowed $287,088,000 to meet its cashneeds, principally for capital expenditures and to pay for the buildupof inventories.• 1971 capital expenditures, originally estimated at $300 million,were reduced starting in mid-year to $244,234,000. This was $28million below expenditures in 1970, but was still the second highestin the company's history.• $32,904,000 was spent on exploration for nickel and other min-erals in 1971, compared with $31,889,000 in 1970. Some 64 per centof these expenditures were made in Canada, about the same as in1970.• Significant lateritic deposits were confirmed in Indonesia, south-ern New Caledonia, Guatemala, and Australia. Financial and feasi-bility studies on all these projects are continuing.• A sulphide nickel deposit in Western Australia and a low-gradesulphide copper-nickel deposit in northeastern Minnesota are alsobeing investigated.• When the january cutback is fully effective, there will be 15mines in full or partial production and three on a standby basis.A nineteenth mine, Shebandowan, will be in production before theend of the year.• In 1973, Inco's Canadian facilities will have an ore-handlingcapacity of 150,000 wet tons a day, and a primary nickel productioncapacity of about 600 million pounds annually.• A new melting unit, known as a vertical shaft furnace, wasinstalled at the Copper Cliff copper refinery in 1971.• Limited production of S-Nickel Rounds began in 1971. This isa new Inco-developed form of electrolytic nickel for the platingindustry. Full production will begin during late 1972 at PortColborne.• Strikes by contractors' workers, as well as difficulties encoun-tered by the contractor in the fabrication of major components,delayed completion of the Copper Cliff Nickel Refinery, nowexpected to go on-stream in 1973.• The company continued in 1971 to increase recycling of processwater in its program to improve water quality in the Sudburydistrict. Recycled water now accounts for 75 per cent of the 130million gallons used daily.• On December 31, 1971, there were 92,217 shareholders, com-pared with 84,320 on December 31, 1970. Sixty-one per cent hadaddresses in Canada, 37 per cent in the U.S. and two per centelsewhere. U.S. residents hold 49 per cent of the shares, Canadians38 per cent, and residents of other countries 13 per cent. In 1970,Canadians held 31 per cent of shares outstanding.• At the end of 1971, Inco and its subsidiaries employed 36,089,of whom 26,840 were in Canada. There were 37,313 employeesat the end of 1970.

Financial Results

Primary nickelRolling mill productsRefined copperPrecious metalsAll other

Net salesCosts, expenses and

income taxesNet earnings

Per common shareDividends paid

Per common share

1971 1970$383,217,000 $ 577970,000181,963,000 229,402,000171,594,000 200,554,000

31,088,000 27,602,00021,367,000 20,320,000

$789,229,000 $1,055,848,000

705,626,000 858,376,00094,242,000 208,591,000

$1.26 $2.8096,862,000 104,230,000

$1.30 $1.40

Nickel scrap, economic I NCO

slowdown behind poor TRIANGLEyear says chairman Volume 32 Number 3

The pronounced drop in Inco'ssales of primary nickel and roll-ing mill products was the majorfactor affecting the companyduring the past year, notes HenryS. Wingate, Inco's chairman, inhis last message to shareholderscontained in the 1971 annual re-port. He retires April 19 afterover 40 years with the company.

Mr. Wingate said: "The sharpdrop in earnings and sales wastriggered by the economic slow-down in industries utilizingnickel-containing materials, espe-cially the steel industry. Theweak demand was evident in thecompany's two major markets,the United States and Europe,and also in Japan.

"Sales in 1971 were also ad-versely affected by the avail-ability of attractively pricednickel scrap, an inevitable phe-nomenon in a period of declin-ing demand for our customers'products," he added. In addi-tion, Inco lost sales to competi-tors, particularly small producersand merchants who sold nickelat reduced prices.

An upturn in nickel sales isanticipated during 1972, Mr.Wirigate said, "although we donot expect the high level of de-mand we experienced in 1970."Since the new year, orders forrolling mill products have pickedup, the price of nickel-containingscrap has increased, and therehas been a firming of the priceof nickel offered by nickel mer-chants.

"We expect to see an upturnin the U.S. economy, our largestmarket, to be followed, after alag by an upturn in the econo-mies of other countries," Mr.Wingate said. This will increasethe demand for nickel which isexpected to reach a level of con-sumption of 900 million poundsduring 1972. (This is only 75

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Deliveries of MetalsNickel 1971 1970

(pounds) 342,450,000 51 8,870.000Copper

(pounds) 340,300,000 348,100,000Pla urn-group

metals andgold (troyounces) 437,400 387,700

Silver)troy ounces) 1,743,000 1,051000

Cobalt)pounds) 1,980,000 1,980,000

iron orelong tons) 796,000 670,000

Published for Ontario employeesof The international Nickel Com-pany of Canada, LImIted.

Peter Marshall, EdItor(705) 682-2604

PicturesDerek Wing, Chief Photographer,

Ontario Div.

Prints of most photographsappearing in the Inco Trianglemay be ordered direct from:Rene Dionne, 170 BolandAve., Sudbury. Or call: 674-0474. Cost: $2 each.

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This month's covers

page ii). imiiing soloist t..,aulyConnors was featured in the LittleMiss Blue number at the LevackFIgure SkatIng Club's annual show.More on pages 6 & 7. John Ceba-torlus is smiling because he'sleaning on a silver ingot - seewhy on page 5. Our back coverwill probably bring a shiver to Sud-bury district resIdents as they re-live the storm of March 1.

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Family Album

Both Leroy Desantis and his wife Eleanor grew up inCrystal Beach where they still make their home Leroy

the Port Colborne Nickel Refinery in 1954 andis now a head pressman. Their three daughters areBarbara, 9, Margaret, 11, and Rose Mary, 10. Tom,the cat on Eleanor's lap, is one of four cats, threeguinea pigs and two rabbits that the family enjoys aspets. Leroy enjoys stockcar races and fishing buthis spare Ume is currently taken up redecorating hislying room.

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Larry Cumini came to Canada from Italy in 1950 and started a yearlater at the Copper Cliff Smelter. He works as a fItter helper on thecopper converters. His wife, Jeannette, is the daughter of JoeBeaulieu, a maintenance mechanic 1st class at Stobie. The Cuminisreside in Sudbury. Their two children are Susan, 10, and Ricky, 7.

A drIller on the 1400 level of Stobie Mine, Raimo Hard started withInco in 1959. He was born in Finland and came to Canada in 1951.His wife, Patricia, grew up on Manitoulin Island and works on the islandat Pioneer Manor as a registered nursing assistant. Their two childrenare Helen, 7, and Paul, 3. The Hards live in Sudbury.

Maurice and Terry Marion of Lively won't agree that youngsters come cheaper by thedozen. They should know - that's the number of offspring they have. Standing areBobby, 13, Jamie, 9, Mike, Louise, (Mrs. Bob Leblanc), Greg, and Sandra, (Mrs. RonMckenzie). Seated are: Lynda (Mrs. Eric Snyder), Terry, Maurice Jr., 7, Theresa, 6,Maurice Sr., and Maureen, 16. In front are Donna, 11, and Debbie, 10. A lamproomattendant at Creighton No. 5, Maurice joined Inco in 1946.

WALKABOUT

The men who produce precious metal

The first step of the Copper Refinery's pre-cious metal extraction process takes placein the silver building when tankhouseslimes-containing insoluble contents ofanode metal-are reacted with sulphuricacid to remove copper and nickel.

At the reactor control panel, slimestreatment operator Leo Charlebois wasphotographed while making observationsof leaching tank temperatures.

A native of Barrie, Leo grew up inLindsay, and for eight years prior to hismove to Inco, was an orderly at BellevilleGeneral Hospital.

He and his wife Janet-she hails fromTimmins-have six sons and a daughter.

With a yen for working on thingsmechanical, Leo undertakes all his ownauto repairs. "It was a case of learning-by-doing," he said.

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After leaching, the silver rich slimes atabout 20 per cent moisture are fed intothe silver building's gas fired Doré furnacetogether with fluxing material and aresmelted into impure silver bullion at tem-peratures up to 2,400 degrees F.

The furnace operates on a two-to-threeweek cycle, during which a 20,000-poundmolten bath is accumulated. The impuresilver is cast into 19-inch by 9-inch Doréplates half an inch thick and weighingclose to 15 pounds.

Backgrounded by the furnace, Doréfurnaceman Joe Spencer is seen cuttingfire brick while building the breast for theskim bay door.

Joe began his Inco career when hestarted to work in the silver building in1947. He was born in Port Severn.

He and his wife Blanche-whom he metin Cornwall when he was serving with theRoyal Hamilton Light Infantry during thewar years-have a family of two. Also aCopper Refinery employee, son Rogerworks in the casting building.

The next step in the process takes place inthe silver building parting plant, where, asthe name implies, silver parts companywith gold and other precious metals. Doréplates become horizontal anodes in lowvoltage electrolytic cells and crystals ofpure silver are deposited on stainless steelcathode plates. Filter cloths positionedbeneath the impure silver anodes retaininsoluble metals-gold and other preciousmetals-once more in the form of slimes.

In our picture, parting plant man ClaudeBouffard is transferring silver crystals fromthe electrolytic cells to a washing truck.

Single and age 26, Claude was born inSudbury, and came to International Nickelin 1968. He started work at the CopperCliff Smelter and transferred to the CopperRefinery in 1969. He is the son of CopperRefinery tankhouse accountant HenryBouffard.

Claude's off-the-job activities includedabbling in electronics, and he's the proudowner of no less than sx tape recordingmachines, 'Cassettes, 8-track, and reel-to-reel," he said, "I've got all kinds." Histape library contains mostly niood music.

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Working behind a display of preciousmetals and other rare products, relief op-erator John Cebatorius is stamping a stackof 1,000-ounce pure silver ingots with theinternationally - recognized t r a d e mark"ORC". The mark was carried over whenthe Ontario Refinery Company became awholly owned Inco subsidiary.

From left to right, the products are: pureosmium, platinum concentrate, palladiumconcentrate, fine silver shot, cast tellurium,pulverised selenium, silver crystals, nickelresidue, nickel sulphate crystals, telluriumpowder, and rhodium concentrate. Frontand centre is a 400-ounce gold ingot.

A Lithuanian, John was born and grewup on a farm near S. Kalvarija, worked inGermany during the last world war, andcrossed the channel to England in 1945.He switched from coal mining in SouthWales to nickel mining at Inco's Creigh-ton Mine in 1952, and moved to surfaceand the Copper Refinery in 1956.

The girl from the neighboring farm,\4aria, came to Canada to marry John in1960. They have two children,

Collected from the parting room filtercloths, insoluble residues are delivered tothe precious metals room in the silverbuilding, where they are dissolved in ablend of nitric and sulphuric acids. Chemi-cals are then added, and crude gold sandsare precipitated.

The gold sands are smelted and cast into70-ounce anodes and then refined byelectrolysis. Deposited pure gold is smeltedin a gas fired crucible furnace, and at atemperature of about 2,000 degrees F. ispoured into cast iron molds. Resultingingots weigh approximately 400 ounces.

Photographed while casting a gold ingotare gold room men Frank Cook (withtongs) and Art Bouillon.

Born on the Sheshegwaning Indian reservation on Manitoulin Island, Frank'sInco service dates back to 1941. He'sworked in the precious metals departmentsince 1951, He and his wife Anna havea family of two and live in Waters town-ship.

Art is a native of Blind River, and hecame to Inco in 1937. Parents of twoand grandparents of nine, he and his wifeMargaret live in Sudburv.

Topping up a 100-pound drum of refinedpowdered selenium prior to shipment tomarket, operator Nick Chopee was photo-graphed in the weighing room of theselenium and tellurium building.

Primarily used for a wide range of pho-tosensitive applications and for electricalrectification, selenium is also used as acoloring agent in glass manufacture and asa hair dressing ingredient.

Nick was born on a farm near Dauphin,Manitoba, and worked as a gold minerbefore coming to Inco and the CopperCliff Smelter in 1941. He transferred tothe Copper Refinery in 1942 and gainedexperience in most production depart-ments before he settled for the seleniumind tellurium building in 1945.

He and his wife Minnie are proud par-ents of a son and two daughters and livein Sudbury.

Never happier than when he's roamingin the outdoors, Nick's summer activitiesinclude many hours of blueberry picking.

MARCH 1972 PAcE FIVE

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Levacks iceis smashing

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Over 140 young skaters tookpart this month in one of themost colorful programs yetstaged by the Levack FigureSkating Club. "Fantasy inBlue" was the theme for thetwo-performance show whichattracted over 900 to watchthe 20 enjoyable numbers.

Dancing to old favoritessuch as "Blue on Blue", "MyBlue Heaven", "Blue Velvet",and "Blueberry Hill", theskaters, aged four to 17,waltzed, polka-ed, charls-toned, jived, and cut all sortsof fancy figures on the ice.

Scene-stealers were theyoungest groups such as thecute "blue birds" and littlestangels featured in our photos,whose wobbly legs couldbarely keep them going.More intricate figures wereperformed by the seniorgroups such as the swinginghula dancers in the "BlueHawaiian" number, the "BlueVelvet" group, and "Septem-ber Blue".

Highlighted as soloists wereCathy Connors in "Little Miss

revuesuccessBlue", Jane Elizabeth Forget,Jamie Johnston, Kim Jalsich,and Karen Niemela. Kimfinished first in the juvenileladies category in the Sud-bury and District Intra-ClubCompetitions held in CopperCliff, and Jamie came first inthe pre-juvenile men's cate-gory at the same event. Inaddition, Debbie Vagnini andMary Cascallen from theCopper Cliff club gave dazz-ling displays as soloists. Aspecially-invited soloist wasLorraine Treveaven of NorthBay, an up-and-coming seniorstar. The club professionalAlan McPherson also gave aspectacular exhibition.

Carnival convener was Mar-garet Coyle, and other mem-bers of her committee were:Joyce Forget, club president;Pat Dell'Anna, past president;Leona Dawe, secretary; DonGoodman, treasurer; SheilaGoodman, ice convener;Joanne Moore, registrationconvener; Claudette Brissonbadge convener; Marion Mc-nnis, phone convener; Victor

Malleau, advertisement con-

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Flappers Joan Andrews, Theresa Cumo and Giselle Crepeaudanced a spirited charleston to "FIve Foot Two . Belowthe littlest angels were: Sandra Scully, Leslie Sabourin, KrlstinaKleniewski, Cathy MoIr, Brenda Orton and Tammy Connors;back row: Robert Dawe, Rose Brlsson, Nicole Geogon, CathyPriddle, ChrIstine Campbell, Shelly Frolick, Kim Day, andStephen Vowels. They skated to "My Blue Heaven".

vener; Monique Kay, costumesupervisor; and Rose Jakich,costume convener.

Ako desrving credit are thebehind - the - scenes workerssuch as ice-captains andcoaches who he'ped organizethe show, the hardworkingcostume makers, the 'denmothers" who kept track of

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individua' cast members, andthose who produced the ight-ing, music, props, makeup,etc. And ast but not east,those unsung heroines, theskaters' mothers, who drovethem to the rink, watched in-numerabe rehersas, and pro-vided the encouragement fortheir chidren to participate.

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Horses and hay flew as these cute farmhands skated to Blue TailFly": George Priddle, Eric Walberg, Christopher Higgison, JohnGoodman, Brian Fox, Hick Moggy and Tim Dell'Anna.

Dancing to Blue Velvet" was this pretty chorus-line: Kelly Hitchman,Cynthia Mclnnls, Nicole Gosselin, Laurie Germain, Diana Vowels, SusanMcllmoyle, Mary Katherine Malleau, and Margo Schijns. Below, thesecharmsters had Red Hoses for a Pretty Lady" as their theme: DianeMainville, Diane Charlebois, Kim Andrews, Cathy MacLean, Dana Kelly,Cathy Storey, Sandy Wyper and Liette Laberge.

Two shaky pegs barely kept these Bluebirds on my Windowsill' flying:Lisa Sabourin, Estelle Lauzon, Jennifer Goodman, Cindy Donaldson,ConnIe Fox, Coryanne Houleau, Dawn May Watkinson, Debbie Benoit,and Debbie Malnville.

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Inco man is province'stop sportsman in 1971Thirty-one-year-old Little Stobieminer Armand Belanger is On-tario's sportsman of the year. Hewas presented with the CaningConservation Trophy and an ex-pensive multi-band portableradio at a ceremony at the On-ario Federation of Anglers and

Hunters annual convention inThunder Bay.

Secretary-treasurer of the ValCaron Trajismen Rod and GunClub, Armand has been a clubmember and an active conser-vationist for only three years.

Besides his all-Ontario award,Armand won the Morse Conser-vation Trophy as top sportsmanin the Federation's Zone 2. $300cash and high-power binocularsalso came with the award. For1972, he is secretary of this zonewhich includes Kapuskasing, Sud-bury, Sault Ste. Marie and NorthBay clubs. Armand also receivedan award from his own club assportsman of the year.

All three awards praised Arm-and's volunteer work. He hasgiven more Lands & Forests gunnstruction course to vro hunt-

ers than any other individual inthe Sudbury dktrict. Armandestimates he's taught over 200 ofthe classes which are mndatorvfor new hunters before they canqualify for an Ontario huntinglicense.

Pollution is another of Arm-and's major concerns and he'sled the Trajlsmen Club's effortsto dean up local beaches, in-

cluding providing and paintingtrash barrels.

Among his other volunteer ef-forts are numerous conservationtalks to Boy Scout groups, andfire warden duties during thesummer months for the districtsof Street, Dryden and Awrey. Healso arranged a tour of the Noel-yule Zoo for six busloads of GirlGuides and Cubs.

Club wins awardThe Mary Pickford Trophy for

the Ontario Federation of An-glers and Hunters' best club waswon by the Trailsmen. OliverBarraul (I..evack Mine welder1st class) said it was the first timethat a club had won both theFederation's premier awards.

Formed during Centennialyear, the group has 40 seniormembers and 25 juniors (ages 13to 18).

Club activities during the pastyear have included providingwinter feed for deer in the Bur-wash area, providing 32 picnictables for Blezard Township, andforming its junior club.

The club encourages indiidu-al conservation projects amongstBoy Scout Troops throughoutthe Valley area and presentedccveral individual Scouts withTrjilsmen Conservation Awards"

last year.Club members also donated

time and talent to build animalcages and mark nature trails athe Noelville Zoo. This year, the

club plans to take a busload of

retarded children to visit thepopular I OCJ I zoo

The ( lub is working throughthe Ontario Federation of An-glers and Hunters to get Man-toulin island closed to hunting.Members are also concernedwith having the wolf bounty lift-ed and the animal classed , biggame. Unless thk step is taken,Oliver said, the wolf in gravedanger of becoming extincL

Nickel scrapContinued from Page 2

million pounds above the estimated nickel consumption in1971).

'What is more difficult toforecast," Mr. Wingate caution-ed, "is how soon and to whatextent this will be translated intosales of our own nickel." Theanswers, he said, lie in howquickly the world's economiesrecover, and how rapidly thesupply lines of customers haveto be filled, as well as how suc-cessfully the company can re-gain sales from competitors.

A limited number of copies ofthe company's 1971 annual re-port are available for interested

cmploy&'es and p'nIOner(opIcs an he obtained by writ-ing the ubhc affii Nt depirt-ment in Copper CliIf.

AppointmentsCopper Cliff

W. Curlook, istant gencrilrnanJger, admiiiitration;

1. A. W. Woodley, director ofadminktration;

1. R. Beaver, assistant divisionp rc) lie r

1. J. Newburn, group super-visor, corporate accounting;

G. J. Hamann, supervisor, cahcontrol and banking, accountingdepartment;

R. H. Heale, supervisor, gov-ernment relations;

K R. Smith, supervisor, ac-counts payable;

F. S. Ressel, supervisor, pay-rolls;

1. V. Tiplady, supervisor, datacontrol, accounting department.

Port ColborneD. F. Hanham, superintendent

of precious metals departmentto the additional position ofchief chemist in the processtechnology department,

Con Jarrett's rinkwins Frood-Stobie 'spell

Con Jarrett's rink of Ed Skene,Rod McDonald and Gary Priortook first event honors at theannual bonspiel of the Frood-Stobie Athletic Association. Lastyear, Con's rink came 5econd.Held at the Copper Cliff curlingclub, 36 rinks, including rinks forthe first time from Little Stobie.irticipated in the two-day fleet.

Ted Flan'igan presented thewinning rink with electric tryp1flS, pewter mugs and individu-al trophies

Winners of the second eventwere 'kip Fred Birchall withBruce Brydges, Rene Blk indDinny O'Brien. lohn Murrdv pre-

sented them with pen and pencilsets and a set of glasses. Thirde'ent was won by skip GordMilne with Ton Young, LionelRochon and Doug Malley. Theywere aw.rded pen and pencilsets nd mugs by Sam Pataran.

Five rinks, skipped by W.Skwjrek, K. Rogerson. j. Murray,D. Storey, and C. Morin, wontrdvel alarm clocks, lighters, ashtrays nd thermos jugs as hidden

r iLl's.Dick Williams wis 1gain the

drawmater, and Ejdred Dickiechaired a (ommittee of Bill Col-1k, Nick Haggerty, Aatt Heindl,Fred O'Fijen ud B ill Prince.

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Oliver Barriault and Armand Belanger with some of the silverware theycollected this winter.

Angelo Lorenzin, Stoble maintenance mechanic 2nd class, didn't quitemake it into the winners' circle, but still showed some style as he letthis rock go.

MAkCH 1972 PAGE NINE

Raise bore boss Lloyd Hartley inspects the giant seven-foot reaming head. It weighs six tons. Loweredfor photographic purposes, the head actually bored the entire 523-foot raise without being removed.

Raise boringthe easy wayConsider the problem of driving 1fl ore )1SS, V('ntIltIOn Fc1IC, Orrnanwav, several hundred feet deep through the solid l'recarnbrianrock encountered in the Sudhurv are,i. Until recentl', he conven-tional way was to drill, blast and muck, a method which couldpresent safety hazards for the miners who worked in confined areasunder freshly blasted faces, Then too, it took time: . long s threemonths to drive 200 feet,

The solution was the raise bore machine. Stdrting with anexperimental three-foot rake bore drill in July 1964, the OntarioDivisions mines drilling department graduated in late 1968 to thelarger machines capable ot driving five- and six-foot raises.

Last month, one of these giant machines completed a seven-footdiameter ore pass, the largest bored at an Inco mine, at Copper CliffNorth Mine. The latest hole is believed to be the longest pass inthe world drilled to this diameter in high compressive-strength rock(capable of withstanding 50,000-plus pounds per square inch). Fromstart to finish, the 530-foot deep raise took less than two months.The time for shorter 200-foot raises has now been reduced to twoweeks through the use of the specialized machines.

How it works

Set up in a station 18-feet high by 10-feet long and wide, theRobbins 61 R raise bore is mounted on a concrete pad. The operatorand his helper are surrounded by the bolted metal screen whichis standard underground protection.

The machine is aligned, at any angle between 50 and 90degrees, and then collars a hole about 18 inches deep. The raisebore's alignment is rechecked and adjusted if necessary before the11-inch wide pilot hole is drilled to the full depth of the projectedraise.

Turning at 72 rpm, the three-cone rotary pilot pit is madeof alloyed steel studded with tungsten carbide 'buttons'. When

Looking up the partially completedore pass, the shaft is the 10-inchdrilt rod to which the reaminghead is attached. The smooth-walled circular hole is preferredwhen the raise is to be used forventilation. Air resistance ismuch lower than in a convention-alty drilled and blasted rectan-gular hole.

This view of the raise boring sta-tion on the 500 level of CopperCliff North Mine shows the 29,000-pound Robbins 61R raise bore, thehydraulic power unit which sup-plies the thrust to the reaminghead, the electricat power unitwhich starts the raise bore'smotor, and the crawter tractor usedto position the machine The six-inch pipe in the foreground isfeeding pilot hole cuttings, com-bined in a compressed air/watermixture, away from the drill site.The feed from the hole to thepipe is through a collar, knownas a 'Blooie" collar, about twofeet deep and 12-inches diameter.

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On-site at Copper Cliff North, raisebore operator Gerry Poitras andhelper Roger Perraut use a specialdetergent to clean some of the10-inch sectionalized drill pipethey'll use in the raise bore.

pressure is applied, the buttons rotate causing the rock to "spall"or explode.

The pilot bit is replaced at the bottom of the raise by anenormous reaming head. This is drawn slowly upward at 10 rpmto back-ream the pilot hole to the full raise diameter. The rock ischipped away by the high pressure generated by its 14 rotary cutters.To complete the large pass at North Mine, the revolving cutterstravelled a total of 6.5 million feet. The reamer makes a crunchingnoise as it churns its way up through the extremely hard rock at12-15 inches per hour.

The rotating drill pipe, to which the reaming head is attached,is composed of five-foot steel sections, 10-inches in diameter. Eachsection weighs 700 pounds. A half-ton hoist is used to add orremove the pipe sections.

The reamer head is drawn up to within seven feet of theconcrete pad on which the raise bore sits. The miners then takeover and drill and blast the remaining collar in the conventionalmanner. This is the only use of blasting in completing the raise.

A 150-hp motor, mounted between the two chrome steel mainguide cylinders in the upper structure, drives the raise borer.

The power output is stepped down to 550 volts by a 225 KVAtransformer.

As delivered, the machines produced 380,000 pounds of thrustto drive the old style "Christmas tree" heads up to six feet in

This old-style five- diameter. Key to the ability to drill the seven-foot raises is a seriesfoot reaming head of nco-developed modifications to the borer, which now produceswas called a a pull of about 500,000 pounds."Christmas tree"because of its A 40-hp air-operated crawler tractor moves the raise borer fromshape and its 12 one location to another and positions it on-site. The reaming headcutters which re- is brought in by heavy mobile equipment and is positioned bysembled orna -I, Iments. Compare C am oc 5.with the flat seven- Ten raise borers are assigned to Ontirio Division mines. Creigh-foot head on page ton area, Levack/Coleman, nd Gjrson each have two, Copper Cliff9. North and Stobie have one apiece, there is usuaHy one undergoing

overhaul, nd one srnaU 41R four-foot mjchine is current'y instor]ge. Over %,00() feet of raises have been driven to clte, ofwhich 25,000 feet were completed during 1971.

The raise borer is another exJinpe of he "mcchjnized revou-tion taking place in nco mines. The most up-to-date equipmentavailable is making mining a safer nd ejsier job tar the emp'oyeend more economic] propostion for the company.

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At the Frood diamond drill warehouse, maintenance mechanic MikePillarela cleans and dresses the threads of the drill rods. The rods arerecovered from the raise or pass being bored, are returned to the ware-house for refurbishing and are reused when required again.

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Thirty members of the Copper Cliff Highland Cadet Corps took part in'Operation Polar Bear, an exercise aimed at familiarizing the cadets

with Arctic survival gear. Conducted at Windy Lake, the cadets whitenylon Arctic smocks went over regular winter combat clothing to keepthem warm, and special lightweight aluminum snowshoes helped themtravel across the snow. Commanding the exercise were Captain AlecGray and Lieutenants Ted Lumley and Don McCroome. Here PipeMajor Dave Linney escorts Cadet-sergeants Rob Orfankus, John Sturt-ridge and John Pilszek on a patrol through snow-covered underbrush.

MhoeI 1. OItCrMembers of the company of Sudbury Theatre Centre and Studio Lab Donna Arsenault and Ann Cebasek, both Marymount College studentsTheatre Foundation are shown peering into Clarabelle Open Pit. Tom won the Inco typing trophy at the annual speed typing contest held atZaitz, planning engineer, third from left explains to Ernest J. Schwarz, Confederation High School in Val Caron. Presenting the girls withartistic director, one of many questions asked. Martin Wiener, stage their individual trophies and team plaque is Joe Pintur commercialmanager listens to Stan Dobson. superintendent of the Clarabelle pit director at Confederation. The girls combined speed of 108 words(hidden) while actors Trick Brymer, Norman S. Quinlan and Bev per minute was the fastest of any of the teams entered by seven localHancox, look over the open pit. The professional theatre company schools.presents informal evenings of theatre free to the public every Fridayuntil April 7. Theatre workshops are being given in many schools andthe musical play "The Threepenny Opera" is being presented at theFraser Auditorium of Laurentian University April 12-16.

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Gus Bergs, Clara-belle Mill shiftboss, proudly dis-plays a 12-poundbeauty he caughton an ice-fishingtrip to OnapingRIver. Gus don-ated the monsterfish to ClarabellesuperintendentKen Kay because,he says, his wifealways complainswhen he returns

"oh no, not an-other one". JohnCibuskls, MurrayMine mainten-ance, Gus's fishingpartner, says thatplaintive cry Isheard often at theBergs' home be-cause Gus Is usu-ally successful onhis fishing trips.

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GIve to Easter Seals - See what your dollars can do" - that's theslogan for the 1972 Easter Seal CampaIgn, handled each year by theprovince's Rotary Clubs. The Sudbury club hopes to raise $16,000 forsuch professional services as medical diagnosis; physical, occupationaland speech therapy; nursing service; special educatIon; recreation;psychologIcal, social and other rehabilitation services required bycrippled chIldren. Fifty-four members of the Sudbury club turned outfor a "stuffing bee" to fIll 34,000 envelopes with an Easter Seal message,a sheet of 28 stamps and a return envelope for contributIons to thecampaign. They'll be mailed to local addresses soon. Above, with thIsyear's "Timmy" VIncent McAndrew, are AIf Thornborough (ProcessTechnology, central lab.), Sandra Donnelly, Yvonne Nykllchyk, LouiseMoylan, and Lori Robinson.

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Wendy DIebel, 17, was one of five riders from the Nickel District LightHorse Association who competed in the Quarterama In Toronto onMarch 4. Held at the ExhibItion grounds, over 1,000 riders from all overNorth America participated. Wendy rode "Judy Sheik", a five-year oldquarter horse owned by Rosaire Langevin of Clarabelle Open Pit. Shealso represented the Nickel District in the Quarterama Queen contest.Wendy is the daughter of Harold Diebel, supervisor of operations in thedata processing department.

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Faces & PlacesAll I said was

that you hardlyever see demshovels under-ground no morebecause evertlng'sautomatic now,see," said MarcelA, Mucker, CKNC-TV's popular man-on-thestreet. "Butden dey took meon dis trip throughFrood Miney'know, and putme to work!" Mar-cel, alias Gil May-er of CKNC'ssales staff, was amember of a re-cent press tourthrough Frood."But I enjoyedhell out of thetrip, mister man,"he said, "anddat's what I thinkabout dat dere,me, anyway."

Results of Coniston's monthly safety contest are tabulated at the end ofeach year. Einer Strom's shift turned out to have been the safest peopleduring 1971. Recently, the 180 members of his shift were presented withhandsome engraved wallets for their safety efforts. Representing theshift's personnel were, back row: Leo Boyer (converters foreman),Gerry Duguay, Jimmy Smith, Helfried Hoseas, Einer Strom (generalforeman), Jack O'Brien, Fred Bertram, Dan Wandziak; kneeling: ErnieDemontigny, Eddie Frappier (charge floor foreman), Guido Benidetti,Jack Bryce (relieving general foreman).

Levack Bantams hockey team went all the way this year to win boththe Northern Ontario "A" dIvision Silver Stick championship and theNorth AmerIcan "A" division Silver StIck crown. Both trophIes are inthe foreground, the North American trophy being the larger. Teammembers are back row: Doug Paranteau, assistant coach, Ward Caldbick,Charles Hamilton, team captain, Jacques Leblanc, Gary Moore, KarlBubalo, Hank Doublestein, manager, Dan Cuomo, trainer; middle row:Mark Mooney, Brian Doublestein, Myles Forget, Gary Leblanc, MikeDoyle, Tony Cuomo, Bruce Unwin, Ray Parker, coach; kneeling: WayneFarnsworth, Denis Lachance, and Dan Coady. The team defeated TorontoWest Rouge 10-1 in opening round in Port Huron, shut out Lambeth 2Oin the semi-final, and blanked Midland 4..O in the North AmerIcan final.

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Port Colborne Nickel Refinery was recently honored by the OntarIoCouncil of the St. John Ambulance for the efforts and enthusiasm ofemployees in the company's fIrst aid program. John potter, the fIrstaid organization's regional manager, is shown presenting a specialcommemorative certificate to Joe Rossi, safety supervisor. Represent-ing the rest of the plant are (standing): Mike Mascitelli, GaetanRodrique, Arnold Pichette. Jack Minor. Orvil Martin, Brian Ewing, and(seated) Miss May Grace, George Smith, Mrs. Darlene Foster, andConstable G. Paul.

May 1 deadline forInco scholarshipsBarely SIX weeks remain for interested high school students to applyfor one of Inco's reserved scholarships. Children of Inco employeeswho are enrolled in a program of studies required for universityentrance, and who will graduate with a secondary school diplomathis year, are eligible. Up to 19 scholarships for study in Canadianuniversities will be awarded.

Application deadline is May 1,It is hoped the names of the winners can be announced by

June 1. The selection and announcement of winners was pushedforward two months to help students plan for the fall semester.

A four-member committee will meet May 20 in Toronto toreview all the applications. Composed of educators from planttowns, this year's chairman is D. j. Booth, principal of LockviewPark Secondary School in Port Colborne. Committee members areD. J. Shaw, principal of Levack District High School; Paul Chauvin,principal of Macdonald-Cartier High School in Sudbury; and Mrs.Audrey Martin, assistant to the principal of R. D. Parker Collegiatein Thompson.

As applications are received at Inco's educational aid section'soffices in Toronto, copies of each are forwarded to committeemembers for their perusal prior to the meeting.

The scholarship committee sets its own terms of reference forselection, with no interference or suggestion from the company.Selection is made largely on the basis of scholastic standing,but personal qualifications and extra-curricular activities are alsoconsidered.

Total value of the scholarships, which have a possible tenureof up to four years, is up to $6,000. The awards annually providefor tuition and associated fees and a grant of $500 to the student.A total of 153 children of Inco employees have received the awardssince the plan was begun in 1956.

Every effort is made to balance the number of awards with thenumber of employees in Inco plant areas. In that way, ForrestAllen, Inco's administrator of education programs, said "we reallyhave three scholarship competitions but only one committee". Ofthe 19 awards, up to 13 may be made in the Sudbury district, up tothree in Port Colborne and Toronto, and up to three in Thompson.

Last year, there were 75 applications from the Sudbury area,13 from Port Colborne and eight from Thompson. Applicationforms, instructions and conditions governing the awards can beobtained from local high schools.

Proud of their mines' safety records is this crowd represenfing Frood,Stobie, and Little Stobie. Back row: John Murray (Stobie superinten-dent), Frank Tessier (holding banner), Len Metcalfe, Morris Seguin,Frank Meleskie, Moe Bodson, Matt Waram Sam Pataran (Little Stobiesuperintendent), Stan Snider (Frood-Stobie safety supervisor); middlerow: Bob Harkins, Ben Beland, Bill Collis (area superintendent), NormMiles (maintenance superintendent), Paul Garrière, Ted Flanagan (Froodsuperintendent); front row: John Romanow, Joe Luptak, Bill Reynolds,Rosario Labelle, Sam Shaw, Don Lavoie, Harry Bean, Serge Gurian.

Copper Cliff's smelter and mills took top honors as safest surface plants.Represenfing all departments are, back row: Leo Beaumont, John Noonan(converters superintendent), E. "Shiner" Corelli, Jack Lilley (smeltermanager), Art RIchardson, Maurice Beauchamp (safety superintendent,processing plants), Steve Kusan, Jim Wharton; middle row: GeorgeMftchell (Copper Cliff Mill superintendent), Ken Johnston (transporta-tion superintendent), Peter Semla, Stan Merda, Harold WaIler (smeltersafety supervisor); front row: Eugene Kitty, BUI Myroniuk, Bill Buchanan(FBR maintenance supervisor) Leo Boulay, Joe Donohae, George Brake.

Frood-Sfobie mine andCopper Cliff smelf er/millare 1972 safesf planfsFrood-Stobie complex and theCopper Cliff Smelter and Millare this year's safest plants inthe Ontario division. They werepresented with the unique tro-phies carved in wood by Creigh-ton's Charles Paxy for the annualsafety competition.

Frood-Stobie, which finishedfifth in 1970, included LittleStobie for the first time. Creigh-ton came a close second again,followed by Carson, Levack,Copper Cliff North, Crean Hill,and Kirkwood. Sign of a signifi-cant safety effort was Carson'sthird place finish in 1971 - in1970, the mine came last in thecompetition.

Not far behind the reductionworks, Port Colborne Nickel Re-finery came second among thesurface plants. Last year's win-ners, the Iron Ore RecoveryPlant came third and the CopperRefinery fourth.

Vice president and generalmanager John McCreedy offeredhis sincere congratulations toboth winners, and urged allmines and processing plants towork even harder for safety dur-ing 1972.

Awarding of the champion-ships is determined by the rela-tive standing for he year of each

mine or plant in three cate-gories: lost-time-injury frequencyper million man hours, all-acci-dent frequency per million manhours, and all-accident severityper million man hours.

Rally drivers' schoolstarts next monthSudbury Sports and Light CarClub is sponsoring an auto rallyschool next month. Lectures willbe held at the Sheraton-CaswellMotor Inn on Wednesday, April12 and 19, starting at 8 p.m.

Enthusiasts interested in rally-ing will learn the basics of navi-gation, timing, map reading, carpreparation and driving tech-niques. A graduation rally isplanned for Sunday, April 23.

Cost of the course is $5 forindividuals or $8 for couples.More information can be ob-tained from Don McKinnon,566-8589.

Regular SSLCC membershipcosts $10 a year, and associatemembership $5. Meetings areheld at the Caswell every secondWednesday. Both categories ofmembers receive the club'smagazine Checkpoint. Presidentof the club is Don McKinnon.

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PAULO FRAGOMENIPaulo Fragomeni was born insouthern Italy where he workeda fruit farm for a number ofyears. With grapes being one ofthe main crops, Paulo becamean expert winemaker and still

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has the knack. In 1949, he andhis wife emigrated to Canadawith their children.

His first job in Canada was atthe sinter plant but later hetransferred to the FBR building'sshipping room where he workedas a loader.

Paulo married Rose Lacopo inItaly in 1933 and they have sevenchildren. Paulo's hobby is rais-ing rabbits and consequently histhree grandchildren love to visithim. He still has a green thumbwhich can be seen from the re-sults of his vegetable garden.

Paulo and his wife hope to re-turn to Italy and also travel toCalifornia to visit relatives.

EDOUARD PIE1TEEd Piette joined Inco in 1942 inthe nickel reverb department atthe Copper Cliff Smelter. In1943 he enlisted with the Cana-dian Armed Forces. After the

War he returned to the OrfordBuilding and then transferred tothe sinter plant, leaving shortlybefore it closed. His next movewas to the FBR building.

Marguerite Belec became Ed'swife in 1945 and they weremarried in her home town, Stur-geon Falls. The Piettes havefour children. Their son, Joe,works at Levack Mine and theirdaughter, Pauline, is married toJack Belanger who is also atLevack.

LAURIER MONCIONAlthough Larry was born inBonneville, Ontario, he grew upin Blezard Valley and this iswhere he is going to stay. He

began to help out on his father'sfarm at the early age of twoyears, His marriage in 1939 tothe former Line Houle, also ofBlezard Valley, prompted him toleave farming and in the sameyear he joined lnco at FroodMine.

Most of Larry's 30 years withthe company were spent as acage tender at Stobie's No, 7shaft. For the last five years ofhis service he was a trammerboss.

The couple's family consistsof four children and 10 grand-children.

NELLIE SHAMESSNellie Shamess is a well-knownfigure, especially to the sick.She has just completed a 34-year

P--• -. career as a regi-stered nurse atthe Copper CliffHospital. On re-

- tirement she wassupervisor of out-patients.

1 Many peoplek are also familiar

with Nell through her volunteerwork with the Red Cross. Shehas been involved with the or-ganization for 19 years and isnow employed on a part-timebasis with the Red Cross BloodTransfusion Clinic and "enjoysthe work tremendously".

Nell was born in Espanola andtrained at St. Michael's Hospitalin Toronto.

AL NUGENTWhen Al Nugent arrived in Can-ada in 1948 from his birthplaceof Lithuania, he worked in Vald'Or for East Sullivan Mining.

In 1951 he came to Sudburyand worked at the Copper CliffSmelter as a puncher. In thesame year he transferred toFrood Mine and was a drift

driller there for most of the 20years he worked for he com-puny.

He took a Sudhury girl, 1111McDonald, to he his wife in1959. They have three children.

Al hopes to he able to getback to his woodworking hobbysoon and to spend some timeat his cottage on Fairbanks rake.

PRIMO CERANTOLAPrimo Cerantola started to rackup his nearly 40 years of servicewhen he started at the Coniston

Smelter in 1930.He was first hiredby Mond in 1923hut quit twice.He transferredto the generaloffice in Conis-ton in 1965 andwas the janitor

there until his retirement.Italy was Primo's birthplace

and he came to Canada in 1910.His wife, the former FidelLalonde, was born in Conistonand married Primo in 1938 atSudbury. They have one daugh-ter and one grandchild.

ADOLF DEPATIEBorn in Otter in the District ofSudbury, Adolf started with thecompany in 1935 at the CopperCliff crushing plant. In 1945 hedecided to try his hand at truck-

ing but after a two year stint hereturned to the company at theconcentrator. In 1949 he trans-ferred to the Copper Cliff Milland worked at the thickener sta-tion until retirement.

In 1941 he married LucienneJanveau in Sudbury. They havesix children and three grand-children.

A trip to western Canada isone of the first items on theagenda for Adolf and his wife.

ARCHIE McINTYREArchie McIntyre was born inEngland, not far from London,in 1910, but came to Trenton,Ontario with his parents in 1914.In 1919, the family moved toPort Colborne where Archie'sfather had found work at thenew nickel refinery which hadjust begun operations.

Arch jqined Inco in 1925 asmessenger boy. In 1928, hetransferred to the electrical de-partment as an apprentice andin 1937 became an electrician.

In 1952, Arch married DorothyMcCaffery, a Port Colborne girl,whom he had met through oneof his workmates, George Strong,her brother-in-law.

Archie figures that his wifehas saved up enough odd jobsaround the house to keep himbusy for awhile. He enjoyswatching hockey on TV but isstrictly impartial, as long as To-ronto Maple Leafs win.

At retirement, Archie was theoldest employee in terms ofservice, at the Port ColborneNickel Refinery.

PETER MILLERPete was born in Blanche, Que-bec, where he met his wife-to-

be, Myrtle Belter. In the late1920s he worked as a shaftsmanin the mines in Quebec, but in1935 he left their employ tocome and work at the CreightonNo. 5 shaft. In 1937 he returnedto Blanche to be married andbrought his wife back to theSudbury area. Pete helped sinka shaft at Skead, and also atLevack, Stobie, Carson and Mur-ray Mines. In 1949 he returnedto Levack and was a shift bossat the time of his retirement.

Their family consists of threegirls and one son. Ann ismarried to Ronald O'Shell, alinesman in the Copper Cliffelectrical department and Lindais married to Bob Sweet whoalso works for the company.

The Millers have a cottage onWindy Lake and they will dividetheir time between it and theirhome in Levack. Travellingacross Canada and a trip toEurope are planned in thefuture.

ADELARD GLADUAs a young lad of 11 years,"Shorty" as he was later to be-come known, set out to work inthe lumber camps. But after 26years in the outdoors he decidedto move on and was employedwith Heath & Sherwood, a dia-

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mond drill contractor, from 1941until 1945.

After a number of starts withInco beginning in 1945, Shortydecided in 1948 that he would

stay working on the fettling floorat the Copper Cliff smelter.

Shorty was married in Sudhuryin 1948 to the former AlineRheault. They have nine chil-dren and one of their daughters.Yvette, is married to Clem Bigraswho works at Garson Mine. TheGladus have four grandchildren.

RENE CLEMENTRene Clement was known as"Clem" to all the fellows in theCopper Cliff mechanical car re-

pair shop. He'j worked there for

almost all of his28 years with thecompany. He

______ joined Inco in1942 and workedunderground atGarson for one

month before transferring toCopper Cliff. Prior to comingto Inco he did some farming andworked for the CIL Company inNobel, Ontario.

Rene was married in 1941 inConiston and the Clements havefour children and six grand-children.

He is planning to move out ofthe area soon and also hopes todo some travelling.

OLIVER ROBILLARDWith three sons and two sons-in-law employed at Inco mines,you can imagine what an impor-tant topic of conversation is

at the Robillard get-togethers.Oliver's sons Jeremy and Claudboth work at Coleman and Fernis employed at Frood - Stobie.Daughter Aline is married toJohnny Hogan of the IORP andLucy's husband, Denis Renault,is at Levack.

"Roby" joined the companyin 1938 at Frood Mine and in1939 drove a truck at the FroodOpen Pit. After transferring to

Levack in 1945, he became afirst class mechanic.

Roby was married in Sudburyto Alma Marier in 1932 and theyhave seven children and 20grandchildren.

GEORGE CHARLEBOISGeorge Charlebois spent most ofhis 28 years at the Iron OreRecovery Plant where he was afirst class mechanic in the crush-ing plant. Prior to joining thecompany he worked for a shorttime for Fraser-Brace Construc-tion and with DelongchampCartage.

When he married Helen Mac-Murray in 1957 he adopted awhopping family of 15 children.

Mrs. Charlebois was born inScotland but came to Canadaas a young girl and grew up inVerne r.

They hope to be moving tothe Toronto area shortly so thatthey can spend more time with anumber of their children whoare located there.

GORDON BARBERMaintenance foreman at theClarabelle Open Pit, GordonBarber started with the companyin 1939 at the Frood Open Pit.

In 1952 he transferred to Creigh-ton and from there he moved toFrood, Crean Hill, and Murray.In 1968 he made his final trans-fer to the Clarabelle Open Pit.Before coming to Inco, Gordonwas a mechanic at McLeodMotors for a couple of years.

Edith Cuthbertson of Shaw-ville, Quebec, became Gordon'swife in 1938 and they have threechildren and three grandchildren.

The Barbers enjoy spending asmany of their leisure hours aspossible at their cottage onBlack Lake.

ARNE J. MAKIAmes father, Jack Maki, workedin the converter building formany years and this may have

prompted him to follow his dadsfootsteps. In 1926 at age 16 hestarted in the converter buildingat the smelter. The majority ofhis 43 years with the company

were spent as a locomotive en-gineer, although in 1970 hetransferred to the machine shopin Copper Cliff.

In 1939 he was married toSylvia Maja and they have oneson, Richard who works at Stobiein the engineering department.Three grandchildren round outthe Maki family.

The couple plan to remain inCopper Cliff and spend theirsummers at their cottage onLong Lake.

HARRY McARTHUR"Red" met his wife, the formerJessie Miller, in Timmins whenhe worked for one of the gold

- :. mines there forseven years. In1934 he joined

- the company at,. Frood Mine and

they not onlygained a newemployee but afine baseball

player for their team, the FroodMiners. Before coming to Incohe played for the NewmarketRedmen who were the MemorialCup Junior Champions in 1932-33.

In 1936 Red quit but returnedin 1943 and was laid off a shorttime later. In 1947 he vias re-hired at Garson Mine where heworked on the train crews untilthe time of his retirement.

Red and his wife were marriedin 1940 and they have three chil-dren and five grandchildren.

JACK ROGERSBorn in Portsmouth, England.Jack Rogers moved in 1913 withhis parents to Fonthill, Ontario

where his Dad started a confec-tionery and grocery store.

Jack joined Inco in 1928 onthe Insistence of his brother, Ed,

who was a sub-foreman in thecalcining department. Starting inthe leaching department, hetransferred to the mechanical de-partment in 1933 as a cooperand later joined the ironworkersection. After serving his ap-prenticeship as helper and weld-er, he became an ironworker. theclassification he retained untilretirement.

Molly Monk, a Port Colbornegirl. became his wife in 1931 andthey have two daughters. Sixgrandchildren c o m p let e thefamily.

RAY EVANSAlthough Ray Evans and his wifehave lived in Sudbury for manyyears they are very exicted aboutmoving to their new home inMassey.

Ray was hired in 1947 at thecrushing plant where he workedas a tripperman up until retire-ment with the exception of thelast month. At that time hetransferred to Frood-Stobie Mill.

In 1952 he married the formerGladys Langdon, who was bornin the Mond Village which waslocated near their cottage onLittle Fairbanks Lake.

Ray hopes to get plenty ofraspberries growing in his newgarden at Massey and also tobuild a hot house for tomatoes,

MARTIN CALLAGHANMarty's working career startedlong before joining the MondNickel Company's Frood Minein 1928. He worked in the Gow-ganda silver mines; tried his hand

farming in the west; then movedto Thetford Mines in Quebec. In1930 he quit Inco but rejoinedin 1933 at Frood Mine. Late inthe '30s he transferred to Levackand was a shift boss there.

Ireland born Nancy O'Neilbecame Marty's wife in 1942 inSudbury. They have three chil-dren.

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RETIIREENTS "How to prospect" coursevisits Sudbury in April

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Travelling is a must with theCallaghans as one of theirdaughters lives in Germany ndanother lives in Iowa. They alsohave plans to visit Hawaii sometime in the future.

THOMAS MURPHYShift boss, Thomas Murphy, join-ed the company in 1936 at theCopper Cliff Smelter but in 1939he transferred to Creighton un-derground where he worked forthe next 32 years.

"Murph" was second prizewinner last year in the garden-ing contest at Creighton but sayswith the extra time he will havethis year he hopes to come first.In the 1930s, Murph was well

The Lidstones plan to stay inSudbury and when the weatherwarms up Duke is planning afew fishing trips.

ROGER MONTPELLIERThe year 1942 was a memorableone for Roger Montpellier. Thatyear he married the former RitaGervais in Chelmsford, and start-

ed at the Copper Cliff Smelter.In 1944 he transferred to LevackMine where he spent the remain-ing 27 years of his service and atretirement was diesel loaderman.

The Montpelliers plan to re-main in Chelmsford where theywere both born and raised.Roger worked on a farm thereprior to joining the company.The Montpelliers have four chil-dren and five grandchildren.

Roger and his wife have justreturned from Florida, well tan-ned, after a six-week vacation.

The OntarIo Department ofMines nd Northern Affairs an-nual series of mineral explora-tion courses will visit Sudburynext month. Classes will be heldApril 3-8 t either LaurentianUniversity or Cambrian Collegefacilities and will be conduct-ed by E, B. Freeman or E. C.Blunden, geological lecturersemployed by the department.Guest speakers will be featuredfor most sessions. Interestedrockhounds should watch theSudbury Star for a final an-nouncement of location and lec-turers.

All classes are expected to beheld evenings from 7 p.m. until10 p.m. The course includes

elementary geology, prospectingtechniques, rock and mineraldentification, claimstaking andassessment work regulations andinformation sources. Most classeswill feature mining films andmineral samples will be distribut-ed free of charge.

The mineral explorationcourses are held at varying loca-tions throughout the provinceeach season so that the maxi-mum number of people mayattend.

The course is designed for ac-tive prospectors or those whosimply wish to learn the popu-lar hobby of rock-hounding. Theclasses are open to all; there areno registration fees.

part of the programmed miningof the Thompson ore body. Theportion of the Thompson Minebelow 2,400 feet will have levelsat 400-foot intervals rather thanthe former 200-foot levels. Shaftstations have been constructedat these levels and drifting intothe ore body has been takingplace since the shaft sinking wascompleted in early 1969. An ex-ploration drift has been driven atthe 4,000-foot level and explora-tion drilling is scheduled to startfrom that level in late 1972.

The Thompson T-1 Shaft is afive compartment shaft with onecompartment for the cage (totransport men and equipment),one for the counterweight, twofor the skips (which transportore), and one for the manway.

known in the sports circles asbeing a great pitcher when heplayed for the Copper Cliff sen-ior ball club. The October 1939issue of the Triangle said:"Murph's iron-man feat was oneof the finest mound perform-ances in Nickel Belt baseball his-tory".

He was married to PeggyO'Neil in 1939 in Copper Cliffand they have four children andeight grandchildren.

JOHN LIDSTONEGrinding boss, "Duke" Lidstone,who originally hailed from Blind

n eRiver, started with the companyin 1941 at the Copper Cliff Mill.Previous to that he drove a truckdnd also worked for the Sudburybus system. He can rememberdriving one of the city's first newbuses in the 1930s.

Jean Vondette and Duke weremarried in 1938 in Sudbury. Thecouple have two children andtwo grandchildren. Their son,Kirk, is employed at the Clara-belle Mill.

LEO ROUSELLE"Chaps" as he is known, spentthe majority of his 30 years withthe company at Garson Mine. In1940 he started at the ConistonSmelter, transferring in 1942 toCreighton and in the same year

Thompson shaft2200 ft. deeperAfter four years of preparation,the Number 1 shaft at theThompson Mine has been open-ed up to a depth of 4,430 feet.This is the deepest continuousmine shaft in Manitoba.

The shaft sinking portion ofthe $13 million program startedin January 1967, and took twoyears to sink 2,200 feet, from the2,200 foot horizon. The ancillarydevelopment portion has con-tinued since then. Recently, theropes on the cage hoist werechanged and the cage, whichcarries men and supplies, waslowered for the first time to itsnew lowest depth of 4,340 feet.

With the capability now ofhoisting from 4,340 feet, addi-tional heavy equipment neces-sary in the shaft's on-going de-velopment can be lowered. In-cluded in the equipment is aMars pump, a relatively newJapanese-made pump used todispose of a slurry of ore androck particles and water whichcollects in the mine. The minealready has a Mars pump on the2,000 foot level. The new onewill be installed at the 4080 footlevel. Also to be installed inthe new lower levels will bethree 800 gallon per minuteclear water" pumps which will

pump drainage water to the pres-ent clear water pump installationt the 1640-foot level for trans-

fer to surface, A 42-inch by 60-inch Jaw crusher with a capacityof 470 tons per hour will also beput into place in the new lowerlevel of the mine.

The shaft was deepened as

he moved to Garson Mine wherehe was a diesel loaderman at thetime of his retirement.

Chaps was instrumental insetting up some of the hockeyleagues in Coniston and he isstill associated with them as anassistant coach.

In 1947 he married the formerMarie Ange Lecour in Conistonand they have made their homethere ever since. They havefour children and one of theirsons, Roger, is n apprenticeelectrician at Frood-Stobie. Theirdaughter Diane is married toPaul Levesque, a mechanic inCopper Cliff.

'Inco Presents'TV specialsInco Presents", a series of 12

hour-long television specials, willstart next month on CKSO-TVchannel 5. Tentatively sched-uled to debut March 22, thecolor programs will be airedWednesday evenings 7 p.m. to 8p.m. once a month. There willbe no commercial breaks soviewers can enjoy the programsuninterrupted.

Specials to be seen includethe birth of the airplane; thestory of the Vienna Boys Choir;the golden age of autos; thehistory of Westminster Abbey;the glamour of the railroad; LordSnowdons film on growing old;and the unseen world of nature.

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Contract talksstart next month,\ new approach to contractnegotiations was announcedjointly last month by The Inter-national Nickel Company of Can-ada, Limited and Locals 6500 and6200 of the United Steelworkersof America who represent thehourly-paid employees in thecompany's Ontario operations.The current contract expires July9 this year.

The bargaining committees re-presenting the company and theunion will open the negotiationsApril 4. They have agreed toset for themselves an "expirydate" of june 2 to reach agree-ment on all non-economic is-sues. Utilizing this approach,bargaining on economic matterscan begin June 5, allowing moreopportunity for discussion ofeconomic issues.

Last month's announcementfollowed '. series of meetingsheld over the last two years toresolve company-union differ-ences on a continuing basis asthey arose, instead of exchangingviews only at times provided bythe collective bargaining agree-men t.

David W. Barris new directorDavid W. Barr, president and adirector of Moore Corporation,Limited, Toronto, has been elect-ed a director of The Internation-al Nickel Company of Canada,Limited. His election fills thevacancy on International Nickel'sboard caused by the death of R.Samuel McLaughlin, chairman ofGeneral Motors of Canada Limit-ed, on january 6. Mr. McLaugh-lin, who had been an Interna-tional Nickel director since 1933,was also a director of MooreCorporation, Limited from De-cember 1942 to April 1971.

Born in Scotland in 1910, Mr.Barr was educated at AirdrieAcademy, Lanarkshire, Scotland,and at the University of Buffalo,His association with Moore Cor-poration, Limited began in 1929.From 1937 through 1961, heserved as comptroller and gen-eral sales manager of varioussubsidiaries, and in 1962, he wasappointed vice president ofMoore Business Forms, Inc. Hewas named executive vice presi-dent of Moore Corporation,Limited in 1966 and president in1968.

Creighton water plantready for early 1973The International Nickel Com-pany of Canada, Limited has an-nounced that a contract for awater treatment plant will heawarded to Rust Associates Ltd.of Montreal. The new plant isto be part of Inco's multi-milliondollar program for purification,distribution and storage of water.It will improve and controlwater quality in the water systemalready serving the communitiesof Creighton. Lively, Murray andCopper Cliff as well as Incomine and surface plants in thoseareas. To be located in Creigh-ton, the new plant is scheduledfor completion early in 1973.

In 1961, International Nickelinstalled the existing water sys-tem. Since then it has beenexpanded to include the abovemunicipalities as well as thecompany's Iron Ore RecoveryPlant, Copper Refinery, CopperCliff Smelter, Copper Cliff NickelRefinery, Clarabelle Mill andmining operations at Creighton,Copper Cliff and Murray. Lastyear, the largest steel water stor-age tank in Canada was addedto the system. Located in Cop-per Cliff, the vessel is 48 feethigh, 240 feet in diameter andhas a capacity of 16 million gal-lons of water.

The new treatment plant willreceive water from the Ver-milion River, about six mileswest of Creighton. The purifica-tion process embodies clarifica-tion facilities, sand filters andchlorination and chemical addi-tion equipment. The process tobe employed in the plant isunique in Ontario. It will pro-duce water well above normalpotable water standards. Highlyautomated, the plant will con-tinuously sample water enteringthe process and automaticallyrespond with the required treat-ment. The 15,000 gallons-per-minute that leave the processwill also be automaticallysampled to ensure quality stan-dards have been met. All opera-tions will be monitored by acontrol centre in the plant thatwill be manned 24 hours-a-day.

The Toronto consulting firmof james F. MacLaren Limitedwas retained by Inco to makerecommendations for the plant.The Ontario Water ResourcesCommission has also been asso-ciated with the design at allstages. The plant has been con-tracted on a "turn key" basis,Rust Associates Ltd. being re-sponsible for all engineering andconstruction.

Port Co/borneoldtimers keepalleys busyPort Colborne's Oldtimers' Bowl-ing Club is a 10 pin bowlingleague organized in November1962 with 16 members. Theoriginal committee consisting ofEarl Lambert, Vic Lynden andManny Wolfe is still in charge.The club has now expanded to26 members. Fifteen of the clubmembers are Inco pensioners, 12with over 40 years' Inco service.

Games are played each Tues-day afternoon from October toApril at the Midtown lanes

where automatic pinsetters areavailable. The Inco RecreationClub would be their home basebut pin boys are not availablein the afternoons.

The players are divided intofour teams, with captains foreach selected from the four play-ers with the highest averagescore the previous year.

A 100% handicap system is inuse, with scratch at 170. Thismeans a player with an averagescore of 100 will have a 70 pinhandicap. In this way, all play-ers have an equal value on totalteam score. Prizes are awardedeach week for individual singleand three game totals.

Just a secondIt takes one minute to write a safety rule.It takes one hour to hold a safety meeting.It takes one week to plan a safety program.It takes one month to put it into operation.It takes one year to win a safety prize.It takes one lifetime to make a safety worker.It takes one second to destroy it all with one accident.

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Icicles drip from the smelter roof.

A silver archway in shops alley. An ice stalactite hangs from the tailings line,

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