Steep Rock Lake, Canada's First Big Iron Mine
- Organization:
- The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers
- Pages:
- 4
- File Size:
- 479 KB
- Publication Date:
- Jan 1, 1943
Abstract
BY August 1944 Canada expects to be shipping 56 percent hematite ore from its new Steep Rock iron mine, via Port Arthur on Lake Superior, to the steelmaking centers in Canada and the United States. This is indeed welcome news to steel men, especially if they operate open hearth furnaces, as the Steep Rock ore is a high-grade lump and will be valuable as charge and feed ore. But better news is the fact that this first big producer of high-grade hematite ore in Canada, since the exhaustion of the Helen mine in the Michipicoten area north of Lake Superior in 1918, has a proved ore body of 16,757,000 long tons and a probable ore body of 14,000,000 long tons, thus giving an over-all total of 30,757,000 long tons and assuring production for a number of years to come.
Citation
APA: (1943) Steep Rock Lake, Canada's First Big Iron Mine
MLA: Steep Rock Lake, Canada's First Big Iron Mine. The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, 1943.