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FEBRUARY 1972 Coniston, Crean Hill phase out Fourth quarter I NCO as cutback starts in Ontario earnings show TRIANGLE Volume 32 Number 2 A cutback in production of about 10 per cent and a reduction in dramatic decline the work force of about four per cent were announced last month This month's covers by the Company. The cutback, which affected both the Ontario The international Nickel Com- and Manitoba Divisions, was caused by the need to avoid a further pany of Canada, Limited's pre- build-up of inventories, Total inventories of all metals and suppiles liminary, unaudited net earnings at the end of 1971 were some $180 million over the level of $286 for 1971 are estimated at million held at the end of 1970, $94,200,000, or $1.26 a share, When fully effective, the Company's production will be reduced compared with $208,591,000, or by approximately 30 per cent below capacity. Earlier reductions $2.80 a share, for 1970. The Company's earnings for totalling 20 per cent were announced in August and October. Steve St. Marseilles lead dog the fourth quarter of 1971 were Silver" gets off to a flying start in the Sudbury District, a total of 1,965 jobs were affected. estimated at $7,860,000 or 11 Some 725 inco employees were given notice of lay-off effective in deep snow. The Husky can cents a share, compared with pull 1,200 pounds and uses this February 14. Besides 100 staff members, 625 hourly rate employees, $23,729,000, or 31 cents a share, technique to get the toboggan 100 from the mines section and 525 from the reduction section, for the third quarter, and with going. Story is on page 15. Our were laid off on the basis of sectional seniority ranging up to nine back cover is an invitation for $47,929,000, or 64 cents a share, Inco employees' children to apply months' employment. The 625 represent about four per cent of the for the fourth quarter of 1970. for a reserved university scholar- Ontario Division's total of 17,000 unit employees. A further 550 in the third quarter, the com- ship. positions are expected to disappear through normal attrition during pany's earnings were favorably the next several months. affected by tax refunds of Published for Ontario employees The balance of 690 represents contractors' employees who are of The internationai Nickel Com- $6,700,000. pany of Canada Limited. no longer required. The mine contractors have been given notice The Company has estimated to vacate Creighton No. 9 shaft, Copper Cliff South Mine and net sales of $789,200,000 in Peter Marshali, Editor Copper Cliff South Ramp. inco employees will be moved into 1971, compared with $1,055,- (705) 682-2604 these mines as the contractors' forces are reduced. These takeovers 848,000 in 1970. Les Lewis, Port Colborne Reporter will be completed by the end of April. Earlier this year, inco took Fourth-quarter sales are esti- 834-3611 ext. 216 over Coleman Mine from the contractors and some 300 inco mated at $175,400,000, com- employees now work there. To contribute suggestions for ar- pared with $173,270,000 in the ticles, please caii the above teie- in the Manitoba Division, it is expected that all affected hourly- third quarter, and $252,867,000 phone numbers, or write to: paid jobs will be absorbed through normal attrition when ore pro- in the fourth quarter of 1970. Inco Triangie, Copper Cliff, Ont. duction is reduced at Birchtree Mine. Announcing the results, Henry S. Wingate, chairman of inco, Pictures Curtailment schedule said that the sharp decline in Derek Wing, Chief Photographer, The production cutback in Ontario involves: earnings for the year "was caus- Ontario Div. Terry O'Connor. Photographer • reduced ore production at the Stobie section of Frood- ed mainly by the greatly reduced Stobie Mine deliveries of primary nickel and CircuLaton • reduced milling schedules at Frood-Stobie and Clarabelle rolling mill products and, to a AdditionaL copies (705) 682-2102 Mills lesser degree, by higher unit Authorized as second cLass maiL by the • suspension of operations at Crean Hill Mine costs and the lower average Post Office Department, Ottawa. and for • suspension of operations at Coniston smelter price received for copper and payment of postage in cash. Crean Hill Mine will operate at full production until the end of platinum-group metals in 1971." MateriaL contained in the Lnco TriangLe March. During April, production will be phased out with the He also cited the higher in- shouLd not be reprinted unLess permission shutdown to be completed by April 30. Production at Stobie will terest expense incurred by inco has been obtained from the editor. be progressively reduced a total of 10,000 tons per day during during the year. The reduced February, March and April. deliveries of primary nickel "re- At Coniston, three sinter machines, one blast furnace and one flected the general slackening in converter were shut down February 14. On March 15, the three demand and, to a smaller ex- Triangle remaining sinter machines, one blast furnace and one converter will tent, the loss of sales to compe- be shut down, with complete shut down of the plant scheduled titors, particularly a number of photographs for April 15. smaller producers and merchants who sold nickel at sharply dis- available Both Frood-Stobie and Clarabelle Mills will be operating on counted prices." five-day work weeks by mid-April. Prints of most photographs inco's fourth-quarter earnings, appearing in the inco Triangle Counselling available which suffered an exceptionally may be ordered direct from: Following the announcement of the cutback, a four-man com- severe decline, in addition to re- Rene Dionne, 170 Boland mittee was jointly formed by inco and Local 6500 of the United flecting the general factors Steelworkers of America. Members of the committee were Bob which affected the whole year, Ave., Sudbury. Or call: 674- Chartrand, Local 6500 vice president; Don Gillis, Steelworkers' staff were depressed by non-recurring 0474. Cost: $2 each. representative; inco's industrial relations area supervisor Alex Mc- costs associated with force re- Cuaig; and Dave Chapman, inco's supervisor hourly employee Continued on Page 19 recruiting. Using a central telephone number (674-4218), one of the these sessions were representatives from Canada Manpower and the committee's objectives is to put prospective employers such as Unemployment insurance Commission who streamlined their pro- Sherritt-Gordon Mines, Caland Ore and Griffith Mines, all of whom cedures to register the men for various benefits. A special pay have been advertising in Sudbury newspapers, in touch with Lhe office will be open in the inco Employees Club, February 18, 19 laid-off men. and 21 to distribute pay cheques to the men. Counselling sessions were held February 14-18 at the inco All the men will hold recall rights up to 18 months after the Employees Club on Frood Road where inco personnel men were on layoff, subject to notifying the company of any change of address. hand to answer questions for the laid off men about company When rehiring starts, they will be notified by registered mail in order benefits and how to replace them, and recall rights. On hand during of seniority.

PAGE Two INco TRIANGLE Family Album

Both Kelly Thur- low and his wife, Diane, grew up in the Parry Sound area and still go there frequently on vacation. Their new tent trailer will make it even more comfortable when the family goes camping. Kelly started with inco in 1948 at the Copper Cliff Living in Sudbury, Bob Ducharme's family enjoy outdoor activities on Smelter. After 15 - Dad's snowmobile and dune buggy. Bob started with the Company years in the metal- in 1950 and works as a construction leader at Creighton No. 9 Shaft. lurgical depart- He was born in Quebec's Eastern Townships while his wife, Leonne, ment, he transfer- is from Blezard Valley. In the back row are Bob, Marie-Paule, 16, red to the mines Lise (Mrs. Mike Vienneau), Pauline (married to Levack stope leader department in Lionel Mallette) and Gilbert. In front are Julie, 5, Carmen, 10, 1966 and works Mrs. Ducharme, Denis, 11, and Rachelle, 8. on the 600 level of the Copper Cliff North Mine as a motorman. The four Thurlow children are Lynn, 14, Heather, 5, Shelley, 13, and Cheryl, 9. The family reside in Waters Township.

If you're looking for John Lackmanec's family during the summer Stan Pylatuk's family lives in Garson where Dad is an assistant Cub- months, you might find them camping at one of Ontario's provincial master. Stan works at Garson Mine in the engineering department parks in their completely equipped travel bus. John was born near as a transit man. He joined inco in 1964 after working for the Ontario Yorkton, Saskatchewan and started with inco in 1948. He's a driller Department of Highways. Stan's wife, Steila, likes ceramics and at Frood Mine. Standing in the back row are Peter, 16, Anne, 14, needlework while Stan is an avid Toronto Leafs hockey fan. Their Victor, 17, and Marie, 15. Seated with John and his wife, Therese, two sons are Brian, 6, and David, 7. SteIla's father, Mike Seniuk, are Christine, 11, and Julie, 19. The Lackmanecs live in Sudbury. works as a level boss at Levack Mine.

There's lots of ex- Biezard Valley is citement at the home for Claire Leslie Petrus and Omer Belie- home: in two more and their weeks' time the two children Da- family is moving vid 9, and Mi- into a new house chael, 9 months. in Welland. Leslie Omer was born in

._•t\ is a blacksmith's Espanola but grew ( helper in the Port up in Sudbury. / Colborne machine Claire is a Copper s ho p. Born in Cliff girl, the r Hungary, he came daughter of retired to Canada in 1957, Copper Cliff Smel- the same year ter nickel conver- he joined inco. ters general fore- Grouped around man Jesse Morri- /; his wife, Dolores, son. Omer started are Joey, 5, Rose- with inco in 1956, mary, 7, Leslie, Mi- working nine years chael, 10, and in the Orford Leslie Jr., 9. Les- building in the lie's favorite hobby is making wine, He used to play right back for the Copper Cliff the Club Rheingoid soccer team, but now restricts himself to cheering Smelter then transferring in 1965 to the transportation department his two older boys who also play the sport. Dolores spends her days where he now works as a locomotive engineer. The family's interests working as a bookkeeper, but likes to crochet in the evenings. include snowmobiiing and tent-trailering.

FEBRUARY 1972 PAGE ThREE Inside Inco's power plants

Art Mackenzie's picture was taken at Big Engaged in the weekly chore of cleaning Inco's third and last dam on the Spanish Eddy, the largest of the five power plants the trash racks at High Falls' No. 1 gene- River is located at Nairn Falls, some seven ri Inco's Huronian power generation sys- rating station, Wayne Lachance uses a miles below the High Falls plants. The tem. Located on the Spanish River, the long-handled rake to remove bark and generating station there has been in ope- 1,175-foot long by 146-foot high concrete small log accumulations. ration since 1915. dam seen in the background was com- Located on the Spanish River half a Seen behind senior switchboard opera- pleted in 1920, and created 25-mile long mile below the Big Eddy plant, it was tor Amie Langlois, are the station's three Agnew Lake which, in power department completed by the Huronian Company in 60-cycle generators. Below, and out of language, contains over 200-mile-feet (one 1905 and supplied the first hydro-electric sight are three 2,250-hp vertical turbines. square mile of water one foot deep) of power to be used by the mining industry Working on the centre generator, visi- water. in Northern Ontario. Located alongside ting machinists from the maintenance The generating plant, which started in the No. 1 station, the No. 2 station went department at Copper Cliff are Andy Pak- 1929, is connected to the dam by three into action in 1917. kala, Allan Makela, and Frank Lesk. They 12-foot diameter penstocks 200 feet long The No. 1 station's four horizontal were replacing a burnt out thrust bearing which deliver water to the plant's three 3,550-hp turbines drive four generators that supports the generator and water- vertical 9,400-hp turbines driving three which produce 60-cycle power. The No. wheel. generators producing 25-cycle power. 2 station's single vertical 7,500-hp turbine Amie was born and grew up on a Remotely controlled from nearby High drives a generator which produces 25-cycle farm at Warren, and worked on hydro Falls generating station, Big Eddy's hum- power. The two stations have a through- installations in Northern Ontario before ming solitude is disturbed only by visiting put of about 2,000 cubic feet of water per joining the electrical department line gang maintenance personnel and the quacking second. at Copper Cliff in 1941. His move to of ducks who spend summer and winter Wayne was born in Espanola, grew up Nairn Falls last year was preceded by in the open waters. in Massey, and started his Inco career as periods at all of Inco's other power plants. Art Mackenzie started at High Falls a miner at Crean Hill in 1970. He trans He and his wife Yvonne live just about just a couple of months after the genera- ferred to the power department and High 200 yards from the generating station in ting station there came on line in 1929. Falls in 1971. A maintenance electrician one of the three houses that constitute the 'You might say we grew up together," he helper, he and his wife Lise live in Massey. community of Nairn Falls. 'It's real coun- said. A native of New Glasgow, Nova try living," said Amie, "we really enjoy it." Scotia, Art started with the Company as an electrician at Creighton Mine in 1928. He and his wife Lorna live in Espanola where she teaches at the high school. They have a grownup family of three.

PAGE FOUR JNCo TRIANGLE Henry Fensom and Harold Maca rtney - Bob Zangari considers himself "home- Surrounded by transformers, breakers, and both senior switchboard operators - are grown". A switchboard operator at High a complicated network of both 25 and 60- the full staff at International Nickel's gene- Falls, he was born in Nairn Centre, a town cycle power lines, High Falls floorman rating station at Wabageshik Falls on the with a present-day population of 475 Gord Mead was reading and recording Vermilion River, a tributary of the Spanish located some eight miles south of the transformer temperatures when the camera River. generating plant. Town clerk since 1967, zeroed in on him in the High Falls sub- The 700-foot long concrete dam and Bob and his wife Noella and their five station. Temperatures of oil cooled trans- generating station were built in 1909. Two youngsters built a new home in Nairn formers are checked regularly twice a 3,225-hp horizontal turbines activate two Centre in 1964. shift. 60-cycle generators. Photographed in the control room at Output from Inco's five power gene- Henry and Harold live just a stone's the High Falls No. 1 generating plant, Bob rating stations is distributed to its Sudbury throw away from the plant in the two is seated at the recently installed panel district mines and plants through the houses that were built there during the that controls the operation of the genera- Company's more than 300 miles of trans- construction of the dam and plant. ting plant at the Big Eddy dam half a mile mission lines. The power department 'Theyre old but solid' said Harold. up-stream. delivers about 10 per cent of required 'Since our family of four grew up and On the air in the picture, Bob is using 60-cycle power, and close to 50 per cent moved away, my wife Bette and I have High Falls' 30-watt base station to make of required 25-cycle power. the choice of no less than seven bed- radio contact with the power department's Age 34, Gord Mead was born in Bir- rooms." radio central in the No. 1 substation at mingham, England, and while in the old A native of Toronto, and a school Copper Cliff. country, completed a six-year aircraft fitter teacher before he joined nco at High It was suggested to Bob that a genera- apprenticeship specializing in helicopter Falls in 1941, Harold moved to Wabage- ting station operator's job was a lonely maintenance. shik Falls in 1960. one. 'Not for me," he said. "I grew up He and his wife Maureen headed for Henry Fensom was born a little closer in a small town and I feel right at home Canada in 1962. Maureen hails from to Wabageshik Falls - just two miles away in a small plant.' Ystrad Mynach, Glamorgan, South Wales. on a farm mid-way between the plant and There are many occasions when there's They have a family of two sons. the town of Nairn Centre. He started his no time to feel lonely. When there are 'We spent our first seven years in nco years with the line gang at Copper electrical storms in the north country. Canada as part of the Toronto rat-race," Cliff in 1939, and has worked at Wabage- power surges can knock out every switch said Gord, then we got smart and headed shik Falls since 1945. He and his wife on the board, 5aid Bob. 'It keeps a guy north - it was the best move we ever Eunice have a family of six, two of whom hopping, and believe me it can be nerve made." He started at High Falls in 1969. attend Espanola High School. racking.'

FEBRUARY 1972 PAGE FivE Faces &

Nineteen Sudbury newsmen and women toured Frood Mine last Places month to observe some of the mechanized mining methods used by the Company. On 600 level, the group watched load-haul-dump machines, a three-boom drill jumbo and toured lunchroom and garage facilities. Later, the group visited 1000 level and saw the tipple and crusher in operation. Above, CKSO-TV's women's editor Grace Rumbail, Betty Meakes of the Sud- bury Star, and Ursa Phillips, wife of CHNO news director Bill Phillips, watch a fan drill. Right, CKNC's Gil Mayer (alias Marcel B. Muck- er) and Betty Meakes listen to Frood superintendent Ted Flana- gan explain what they're going to see next. Behind, Jack Richmond, host of inco's Sunday morning radio show on CHNO, prepares to take a photo.

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The Copper Cliff Curling Club hosted the Northern Ontario Curling trophy and four stainless steel fondue sets donated by inco: Sudbury Association's 85th Annual Bonspiel last month. Over 170 enthusiastic Curling Club skip Don Harry, plant clerk, Copper Cliff Smelter converters: curlers from the association's 22 active clubs invaded the Copper Cliff, vice-skip Morley Harry: second, Peter Wong: and lead Bruce Urquhart, Sudbury, Faiconbridge, Coniston and idyiwilde curling clubs for the big Copper Cliff engineering. Jack Lilley, manager of smelters, presented four-day event. Left, John McCreedy throws Out the first rock at the the trophy to the victorious rink. Copper Cliff Club. Right, winners of the first division won the inco

PAGE Six INCa TRIANGLE Another course being given at inco's Training and Development Centre is this one on Lilley controllers. The course is given two days a week for 10 weeks and is being taken by maintenance foremen, shaft inspec- tors, and mine superintendents. Lectures and discussions cover the theory, stripping and rebuilding of the unit which controls the speed of mine hoists. Largo Albert, left, Copper Cliff general engineering, is the instructor, and his students are George Lockhard, Levack Mine, Fern Dionne, Garson Mine, and Bill McKnight, a research and advisory engineer from the Ontario Department of Mines and Northern Affairs.

A new one-day refresher course in first aid is now taught at the Training and Development institute in Sudbury. Aimed at first line supervisors, the session follows the regular St. John Ambulance certifi- cate course and includes a two-hour examination. Camille Vincent, Copper Refinery, Ray Lalonde, iron ore plant, and Roily Coulombe, Creighton, watch as instructor Hank Derks describes the bones in the hand and wrist. Joffre Perras and Hank, both from Copper Cliff safety department, alternate as instructors. The skeleton has been christened Nellie-bones, and the inflatable dummy, Resusci-Anne.

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inco's Huntingdon Alloys Division in West Virginia has a new symbol, seen here on the plant's first locomotive to be repainted. The symbol has the inco triangle and also embodies a graphic concept of the letters 'H' and "A" of Huntingdon Alloys.

Alan Querney, chairman of the Sudbury and Dis- trict H os pital Council, accepts a cheque for $500,- 000 from John Mc- Creedy, inco vice president and On- tario Division gen. Ten of these new boards have been posted at convenient locations eral manager. The throughout the Port Coiborne Nickel Refinery. Changed every few days, cheque was the the boards display company news in the first panel, appointments and third of five don- - plant news or current events in the centre panel, and usually a safety ations of $500,000 each pledged by : -' message in the thrd window. Shearing operators Mazzuca Domenco Inco to assist con- and Ralph Mancuso paused a moment to look over this display. struction projects and the purchase of equipment for our local hospi.- tais. Mr. Mc- Creedy said: The Company's con- cern in providing Sudbu ry district with improved health care facilities is demonstrated we hope, through the active participation of inco on the various hospital boards in Sudbury area, as well as by our financial contributions."

FEBRUARY 1972 PAGE SEvEN Faces & Places

international Nickels Sudbury operations were the subject of a two day tour by a 13-member mining and metallurgical mission from the Peoples Republic of China. The group toured Ciarabeile MiU, Stobie Mine, the smelter and fluid bed roaster building, and the nickel refinery. Above, metallurgist Hsu Li Chang discusses a point with R. G. (Rudy) Regimbal, superintendent of mills, while the group was in Ciarabeile Mill's control St. Paul's Church youth group in Coniston hosted a visit to the town by room. Looking on are mission head Tien Ju Fu, director of China's 21 orphans from the D'Youvllle Home in Sudbury. This is the fifth ministry of metallurgical industries, and Gilliane Lapointe, Canadian year the Coniston youngsters have organized the day, during which government interpreter. they treat the orphans to a skating party at the arena, bowling at Club AllegrI, supper and movies in the Church hall. Preparing the hamburger supper above are Sue Alberton, Mary Silvestri, Lauretta Cecchin, Mrs. Teresa Silvestri, and Mary DeMarchi.

Sudbury Little Theatre Guild will host the 14th Quonta Regional Drama Festival March 8-11 at the inco Club on Frood Road. Sud bury will open the festival March 8 with the "Ecstasy of Rita Joe", followed by North Bay's "Tchin Tchin" on March 9; Sault Ste. Marie's "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" on March 10; and Espanola's 'Mary Stuart" on March 11. Tickets, which cost $2 each or $6 for the series of four are available at downtown Sudbury stores. 'Rita Joe" is the Sudbury group's third play of the season. it will open March 1-4 at the inco Club for local theatre- Fifteen Laurentian University students whose courses include geology, goers. At rehearsals above are incoites Bert Meredith as David Joe, were taken on a geological tour of Little Stobie Mine last month. Accom- uoe Dippong, Jeff Taylor as Jamie Paul, Donna Hamer as Rita Joe, and panied by Dr. Robert Cameron, chairman of Laurentians Geology director Don Passmore. Department, the group was guided by Rod Tate, area geologist at the Frood-Stobie complex. Riding in the cage to the 400 level, the students then proceeded down the ramp to the 500 level where they were shown three crosscuts which cut through the mines two ore bodies, Various types of ore encountered at LIttle Stobie were pointed out. Later on surface, Rod Tate lectured the visitors on the basics of sub-'evel caving. For the five girls who took part in the tour, it was their first time under- ground. Left to right are Joyce Mandzuk, Wendy Wright, Riitta Hannila, Renata Gorecki and Marti Bowers. The five all grew up in Sudbury.

PAGE EIGHT INCO TRIANGLE From gold to moonstone, local rockhound has them all

for rocks in the United States. ore is near Crean Hill where Customs men on both sides of you can find lovely white quartz the border "just look at you" with chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite when you tell them you've only mixed in," Lloyd said. some rocks to declare," Lloyd His own collection has a num- chuckled. ber of unusual rocks, including "My biggest problem is getting native copper from Michigan local ore," Lloyd said, Inco which is 99.9 per cent pure and mines, of course, are off limits, foLind in clusters like nuggets; but most ore arrives at the mills sample of Yukon gold; fluor- in small pieces from the under- escent rocks which glow in ultra- ground crushers. It's still pos- violet light; rose quartz from sible to pick Li some ore along Argentina; lunakite or "moon- the CPR tracks near Levack, but stone" from Norway, which is they're not good-sized chunks, used to decorate buildings; Lloyd said. "tiger eye" which is a form of Nevertheless, good rocks can asbestos found in Katanga in be found in the Sudbury area. Africa and which became a Lloyd recommends that anyone quartz-like rock under pressure interested look for fluorite, gar- and heat found there; and a dia- net, granite, marble and sand- mond drill core. stone near Markstay; chalco- Most of Lloyd's rock hunting pyrite and talc are also plentiful activity currently is in aid of the in the Sudbury area. "The nicest Continued on Page 19

Lloyd Walford looks over his "pride and joy": a rock he chipped off a big boulder at a road construction site near Gooderham. The multi- colored rock contains samples of scapolite (purple), actinolite (green), calcite (pale orange), and mica (black). He plans to mount the big rock inside clear plastIc for display purposes.

ocks are Lloyd Walford's too many people around, and R passion and after 37 years that's not too difficult in north- of collecting he now boasts ern Ontario," Many Chambers over 1,200 different samples, of Commerce give advice to from fool's gold to a gallstone. rockhounds and these spots are Most of Lloyd's rocks are at- well picked over, Lloyd said, tractively displayed in jewellers' "You've got to go off the beaten cabinets. Lloyd isn't adding any track because every rockhound more rocks to his collection is looking for something no one there's hardly a corner in his else has found." Copper Cliff apartment which Lloyd finds abandoned mines isn't filled anyway but he and tailings dams are usually Arrayed here is the gear Lloyd takes into the field. All of It fits Into does replace some of his older good spots. He used to go to his knapsack. In the back row are a collapsible metal detector, a rocks as he acquires better a series of mine dumps near miniature geiger counter, the satchel, and a radiation dosimeter. In specimens. Temagami, but these have dis- the front row are his safety hat, geologist's hammer, geologist's sledge Lloyd likes rocks in their na- appeared now. hammer, magnetic detector, two pairs of safety goggles, and a gold and platinum tester. tural state before they're broken. Little special equipment is "It's nice to polish them but needed to get started in the then they don't look natural," he hobby. Lloyd carries a small From Andalusite to Zinc, this big cabinet contains over 580 samples that pointed out, adding "but it's a knapsack with a mineral ham- are cross-referenced in an index file that Lloyd has developed. matter of taste and facilities to mer and a small sledge hammer, do the job if you want to" etc. He also adds some band- Locally, Cambrian College offers aids because rocks are sharp, a night course in gem cLitting 'quartz can cut like glass", and and polishing, the art of lapi- he prefers to work without dary, and encourages the use of gloves because they interfere local gem materials. Surprisingly with the feel of things and are however, Lloyd says he knows of hot in warm weather." no individuals in Sudbury with A truck or a jeep would help collections as extensive as his. o get into the back country, Hunting for his rocks takes but Lloyd drives a standard car Lloyd trorn coast to coast, al- and uses the back seat and trunk though northern Ontario is his to store his rocks, ''Coming hack favorite hunting ground. He puts from Nova Scotia a couple of over 4,000 miles on hs car dur- years ago, I had over 800 pounds ing his month-long holidays, in the back seat he said. "I try to go where there's not There's no problem hunting

FEBRUARY 1972PAGE NINE Clarabelle ,

Mill - CarabeUe MW is the Company's 'argest concentrator, having a design capacity of 35,000 tons per day. Ore is received from Garson, Macennan, Totten, Kirkwood, the CarabeUe Open Pit, Copper C'iff North and South, Levack and Creighton Mines. Seen in this view 'ooking west are the Inco's thickener, mifl buUding and fine ore distribution bin, conveyors, and biggest yet crusher buUding and crusher distribution bin.

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This tandem rotary car dumper is the first instafled at an Inco surface p'ant. SimUar to underground tipp'es, each dumper turns 160° and is powered by a twospeed &ectric drive. They are capab'e of dumping 40 cars per hour, a dumping cyc'e taking three minutes. An automatic weighing system is incorporated in the dumper. The mobUe hydrauflcafly- operated hammer underneath the booth is used to break up big chunks of ore which don't go through the grate of the grizz'y. The ore fafls into a 30,000 ton capacity coarse ore surge bin.

Two paraUe ste& cord conveyor beRs carry the minus 6-inch coarse ore to the 3,000 ton capacity crusher coarse ore distribution bin. The crushing section has six paraUe sines, each consisting of a 6-foot by 14-foot doub'e deck dewatering of the fines is accomplished by removing the sca'ping screen, a 7-foot standard cone crusher, a 5-foot coarse fraction using two 6-foot by 14-foot doub'e by 12-foot doub'e deck secondary screen, and a 7-foot deck screens, foflowed by three 30-inch c'assifying shorthead crusher. The ore is crushed to minus 1-inch cydones, and darifying the &ime fraction in a 225foot in size and conveyed to the 15,000 ton fine ore distribution diameter thickener. The 'arge pipes in the photo are part of bin in the mifl. Due to the sticky nature of the ore, water the dust coflection system, one for each crusher sine. is used to remove the fine materi& before crushing. The The dust is trapped by water and joins the fine ore system.

PAGE TEN INCO TRIANGLE The crushed ore is ground to flotation feed size, about 1/100th of an inch, in five 13/2 -foot diameter by 18-foot long rod mills, followed by treatment in five similarly sized ball mills. Clarabelle shares with its immediate predecessor, the Frood- Stobie Mill, the distinction of having the largest grinding mills at any lnco plant. Each of Clarabelie's 10 mills is driven by a 2,000 hp. motor. The sizing of the feed is con- trolled by five clusters of three 30-inch cyclones located to the left of the ball mills. The oversized coarse returns to the ball mills for further grinding, and the properly sized ore flows to the magnetic separator- flotation section. The "hoods' at the discharge end of each mill are noise abatement boxes.

The finely-ground ore sul- phides are separated from the valueless rock particles by 48 magnetic separators, arranged in 24 parallel sets of two, followed by 528 flota- tion cells, arranged in 24 lines of 22 each. The ore flows to the magnetic separa- tors where a magnetic prod- uct is recovered as a crude iron sulphide concentrate. The non-magnetic portion flows on to the flotation ma- chines where a copper- nickel sulphide concentrate is collected. Both products are pumped to Copper Cliff Mill for further treatment. The waste rock particles, known as mill tailings, are used in the production of mine sandfiH, the remainder being pumped to the Copper Cliff tailing disposal system.

Various types of chemicals are added to the ore: pine oil to make a stable froth and xanthate to coat the sulphide mineral particles so they will float to the surfaces of the flotation machines. Other chemicals including copper sulphate and sodium silicate, are used to modify the condi- tions under which the ore is treated. The mill's computer controls the addition of these chemicals to the process. Process technologist Pat McNamara is seen checking out the automatic proportion- ing pumps for the chemicals. The complete movement of the ore from the 30000 coarse ore surge bin to its delivery / as separate crude concen- trates and tailings, is con- trolled from this central con- trol room. Closed circuit tele- . vision cameras watch key points on the major ore handling conveyors and in the crushing plant. An IBM 1800 computer monitors mill -.. . processes, alarms the opera- tors to out-of-limit situations, controls chemical additions, and the on-stream x-ray analyzer. Mill control opera- tor Gerrie Dennie is turning the switches to activate test equipment. Behind him is crushing plant operator Dave Lemmon. He has a status report typewriter at his left and an alarm typewriter at his right. These machines, connected to the computer, print out messages to the operator alerting him to process situations requiring his attention. Above them are flow charts for the ore receiving and crushing, grinding, flotation and utilities sections.

PRECRUSHED ORE FROM INCO MINES Simplified flow chart RAILWAY CAR TIPPLE AND SCALE

______GRIZZLY COARSE ORE SURGE BIN 30,000 TONS 225 THICKENER 2 BELT CONVEYORS

COARSE ORE DISTRIBUTOR 3 CYCLONES 24 BANKS OF 22 FLOTATION CELLS II E ORE 6 BELT CONVEYORS DSTRIG1JTOR FS I I- 48 MAGNETIC 5 BELT 15 CYCLONES SEPARATORS 6 PRIMARY SCREENS ITIIEYORS

5 ROD MILLS 1 1 5 BALL MILLS 6 STAN DA RD CRUSHERS

H!NK ROUGHER PYRRHOTITE 6 SECONDARY WET TO COPPER CLIFF ...SCREENS REENS

TO COPPER CLIFF

HEAD TANK CLARABELLE MILL TAILING TO COPPER CLIFF

Orest Andrews

PAGE TWELVE INCO TRIANGLE 7

4k - He shoots Frood-Stobie defenders rush to block a sure goal Concentrating on the puck, Copper Cliff players wait for the referee. Three active loops in Inco shift league hockey Some of the toughest hockey ing and compiling statistics is this month, with playoffs sched- Heading into the league play- action in the Nickel District be- league organizer Ray Frattini. uled for the first week of March. offs, scheduled for the end of longs close to home in the three Jack Newell is referee-in-chief Frood-Stobie busy this month, that's the order in Inco hockey shift leagues. It's and has about eight regular refs At Frood-Stobie, hockey league which they'll likely finish. an exciting brand of hockey, too, and linesmen who turn out to convenor Allan (Sonny) Pelletier The league is supported by and one that's too often over- help him. has over 85 players registered the Coniston Athletic Associa- looked by spectators. All games are played at Stan- for the league's four teams. A tion's inter-plant hockey com- Back this year are teams or- ley Stadium, where the evening fifth, Copper Cliff North, drop- mitee, which provides goalie ganized by the Copper Cliff and division has a 20 game schedule ped out at Christmas-time. equipment. Committee members Frood-Stobie leagues, although with matches three nights a Games are scheduled for Mon- are Dennis Laframboise, Jim Sea- the present Coniston league will week, and the morning division day, Wednesday and Friday wright, Ron Winn and Hank probably be a casualty next year has an 18-game schedule with mornings at Stanley Stadium. Lowe. The players themselves due to the plant's closure, games usually scheduled twice Ken Lavalley's squad from Frood pay for ice time at the Coniston Two divisions in Cliff a week. The league is support- holds down first place, but Basil arena, and the rest of their play- At Copper Cliff, the Athletic ed by the Copper Cliff Athletic Beauparlant's crew from 600 ing paraphernalia. Referee-in- Association keeps eight clubs in Association, shift raffles, and Stobie isn't far behind and it'll chief is hard-working Pete Day- steady action, five in the evening fees paid by the players them- be a race for the pennant. puk. Leading the scoring race is division and three in the morn- selves. Bernie Beaudry and Bill Lampert Cresswell winger Frank Taback ing division, with about 160 Leading the race for the even- share the duties coaching the who had 74 points at presstime. players involved. The evening ing pennant at press time were third-place 1400 Stobie team, The Coniston league's future division clubs and their playing Creighton-Lively with 11 wins, and Patty McColman's Garson is still uncertain. League presi- coaches are Town (Dennis Har- followed closely by the Town team is in the cellar. Each team dent Dennis Laframboise said he nal) sponsored by Russell's Esso; with 9 wins and a tie. In the plays 28 games during the regu- hoped some sort of arrangement Creighton-Lively (Graham Squir- morning league, the Converters lar season which started Novem- for an inter-locking schedule rel); Mill (Frank O'Grady); Ware- squad is safe with a 10 point ber 1. could be made with the Copper house (Gerry Mills); and Iron bulge over their nearest rivals, Leading marksman is 600 Cliff league for next season. Ore Plant (Tom Gravestock). The the Mill Warriors. Don Moses Stobie's Dave True with 23 Alternatively, he said, perhaps morning division lists teams of the Creighton-Lively team is goals. Jack Imbeau from the the two best Coniston teams from Separation (Jim Wilson); the overall scoring leader with 1400 Stobie team is in second could join the Copper Cliff Copper Cliff Mill Warriors (Dave 51 points (24 goals), followed place in the scoring race with league. Parker); and Converters (Ivan by Mill's Frank O'Grady with 38 17 goals. Thu rlow). points (17 goals). Regular league Frood-Stobie Athletic Associa On top of the job of schedul- play continues until the end of tion again provided financial Appointments support, buying the ice time. R. Sandberg, plant engineer, sweaters and goalie sticks for the copper refinery; players. The players themselves S. Segsworth, safety supervisor, pay fees and provide their own copper refinery; hockey sticks. Ken Lavalley is the referee-in-chief. W. Wilson, assistant superin- Playoffs will start February 28 tendent, p r o c e s s technology, and should continue for about copper refinery; a week. The 1400 Stobie team J. F. Noonan, superintendent is also planning an exhibition of converters, Copper Cliff Smel game with a team from the Wik- ter; wemikong Indian Reserve on G. J. Pidgeon, assistant mill Manitoulin Island. superintendent, Copper Cliff Coniston setup Mill; Three teams make up the D. Gathercole, sectional super- Coniston loop: Cresswell shift, intendent, maintenance, Copper Close checking in the Coniston league. Strom shift, and Rivard shift. Cliff plant.

FEBRUARY 1972 PAGE THIRTEEN with the IORP team beating the Coniston fetes its most senior citizen Copper Refinery. A hundredth birthday doesn't February 21 is the date the happen every day, and when the battle for the Finlayson Trophy opportunity came in Coniston will take place. This will decide for Remi Doucette, it turned the reduction plants champion- out to be a gala event with over j ship with the winner of this 50 people attending. semi-final facing one of the IRemi kibbitizes mines in the Parker Competition. with one of his Born in Tusket, Nova Scotia, The allmines championship will Remi lived most of his working favorites: his youngest great- be decided February 24 when life in Yarmouth, until moving to grandson, 2l/2 the ,Mutz Competition will be Coniston 20 years ago to live year old Eddy, held. The winner will enter the with his son Russ and daughter- grandaughter Al- Parker Competition which will in-law Sally. berta Alyward's son. be held March 16. In Yarmouth, Remi worked as All competitions take place in a teamster, driving both horse the main auditorium of the rico and oxen teams belonging to a Employees Club on Frood Road. local livery stable. Remi's other Semi-finals start at 7:15, while job at the stable was to break the Parker Competition, to de- wild horses brought from the cide the Ontario Division cham- west. His grandson, Vic Boyd, pions will begin at 7:30. a sampler at Coniston, recalled worn cards, he also plays a lot town offering birthday congra "he practically talked to those of solitaire. tulations. horses". He also raced horses at the local sulkie track. Surprisingly spry for someone Other gifts included a rocker Inco takes action a century old, Remi manages to Besides his own son and from his family, a bottle of cog- visit most of his iarge amiIy daughter, Remi raised eight of nac and a mounted plaque from before API rises each summer and at age 95 his 10 grandchildren when they the Lions' Club; and an electric spent two days on a train travel- "The Air Pollution Index for lost their parents. He also has blanket and some of Remi's ling home to Yarmouth, a trip he the Sudbury area is 45. Any 26 great-grandchildren, 11 girls favorite cigars from the town. wants to make again this sum- reading below 32 is considered and 15 boys. mer. His only visit to a hospitat Remis local family includes acceptable by the governments cooking back on his Tong life, was in 1958 when he had a Burt Boyd, an electrician at Cop- Air Management Branch. Above Remi said "1 had plenty of good check up. Amazingly, he still per Cliff; Ronnie Boyd, a Garson 32, major industries are request- times and hard ones too" Some has almost all of his own teeth; driller; Paul Boyd, Coniston ed to make voluntary cutbacks of the hard times included the the few that are missing he Smelter. Son Russ is a conduc- in operation, and above 50 in- loss of his fisherman father at pulled out with pliers when a tor in the Coniston transporta- dustries may be ordered to do sea; when Remi was only 15. young man. tion department. so. InternationaT Nickel has al- Born with a club foot, Remi was A man who never bothered to ready begun to reschedule its once dragged nearly half a mile learn to read or write, Remi operations, a spokesman for the by a terrified horse before he keeps up-to-date with television, Parker Shield Company told this station." could calm the animal. There his favorite programs being those So might sound a typical radio were so many bones splintered featuring horses, although he's competition news story on a day when local in his bad leg, that the doctors also a baseball and hockey fan. weather conditions result in a wanted to amputate it. Remi Besides a special birthday cake high Air Pollution Index (API) refused permission saying it made by grandaughter Clara one month away from the government's official would heal which it did. Boyd, Remi received a telegram It's first aid competition time air monitoring station in Sud- Today, Remi enjoys a quiet from Queen Elizabeth, a framed again, with the results of the bury. life. "He's got a great appetite," birthday message from Ontario quarter finals showing that both The Ontario government's Air Sally Doucette said, "and really Premier William Davis, and mes- of last year's finalists, the rival Management Branch station con- likes sweet things like candy, sages from Prime Minister Tru- Port Colborne and E.evack teams, tinually monitors sulphur dioxide ice cream and oatmeal with deau, and other local politicians. have been eliminated. and dust suspended in the air. molasses.' He also smokes his Mayor Mike Soiski of Conis- The API prepared from these way through boxes of cigars ton had a special presentation Held January 31, Frood-Stobie readings serves as an indicator each week, and enjoys an occa- for Remi: the key to the town came out on top in the T. D. of the community's air quality sional pipe. Using a set of very and a handsome scroll from the Parris Trophy competition. Crean based on a 24-hour running Hill and Garson Mines were eli- average. Because the readings minated. are averaged, the APT may re- Then on February 3, Copper port high even though air quality Cliff Smelter's team won the has actually improved due to a 1. M. Crowther Trophy and the change in the weather condi- right to represent the East Re- tions or industrial cutbacks. It duction Group in the semi- may take several hours for lower finals. Competing against the readings to compensate for the smelter team were Port Colborne high counts recorded earlier. Nickel Refinery's representatives The readings are telemetered and the Coniston Smelter team. continuously to a computer in Creighton Mine won the C. Toronto, and released to the F. Hews Trophy among the West press four times daily. Mines Group, defeating last Inco takes action year's champion E.evack Mine What happens when Inco "re- and a team from Copper Cliff schedules its operations"? The North. Companys own SO2 monitor is Sitting in his new rocker, Remi holds the key to Coniston presented by located beside the government's Mayor Mike Soiski on his left. Mike is holding the scroll he also The B. Debney Trophy Com presented to Remi. Looking on are Russ and Sally Doucette. petition was held February 10 Continued on Page 19

PAGE FOURTEEN INCO TRIANGLE Trapping is way of life for pensioner

years have gone by more night. The skin becomes F'osince Steve St. Marseille set white like milk, he said. his first trap as a 12-year-old It takes Steve up to 75 minutes in Cartier. "No one taught me to skin a beaver, and 40 minutes how, I just picked it up from to do an otter. The otter, here 'n' there listening to people though, is more difficult because talk," he recalled. "I set my the skin is so sensitive. "You first traps for muskrat and mink," have to be careful because its he said. "After lunch, I'd run a leather hide doesn't seem to half mile to see my traps and take a knife like a beaver. It's then go back to school." In easy to cut right through, if those days, buyers would pay up you're not careful," he said. The to $50 for a good mink pelt. beaver takes a long time to skin "Today you can't give mink because 'the leather is tougher away," Steve said. than a sonofagun", Steve said. Beaver, otter and muskrat are No one can trap without a what Steve is interested in today. trappers license, issued by the It's been a good year for beaver, Department of Lands and For- and Steve got $20 apiece for his ests, and they're hard to obtain. at the Hudson's Bay Post in To get one from the Depart- Gogama. 'That's a good price ment, the applicant has to prove for these times," Steve said, ad- he can trap, and to keep it, he ding that those who sold at the has to consistently bring in his North Bay fur auction in Janu- quota. ary averaged only $15. His otter Steve's trapline near the Ver- pelts fetched $70, but he caught milion River in Blezard Valley only three of them this fall. covers half a township, about 18 Having baited the "They're not the easiest animal square miles, besides the pri- trap with the pop- to trap," he explained, "because vate properties on which he has lar sapling suspen- they're not plentiful." Beavers ded by wires in the owners' permission to trap. the centre of the can have up to eight young, For beaver and otter, Steve trap, Steve releas- while otters average only four uces two types of traps, the ed the safety dogs per litter. Prices for muskrats Conibear and the No. 4 trap. on the trap's are 'good right now" Steve springs, He then The Conibear is a recent design attached the trap says. He gets $2 a pelt "and it and Steve was one of the first to the stake in only takes two minutes to skin to adopt it. It is a particularly front of him. Be- em. humane trap as it fractures the low, Steve used the double-edge Buyers look for quality in the skull of its victim, as opposed ice-pick in the fur, cleanliness, and leather to the drowning suffered by ani- foreground to dig that's well-stretched, dyed and mals caught in the No. 4. the hole beside the fleshed, Steve said. His fur is beaver lodge. He Both types of traps are made found it when he frost-dried outdoors overnight. of steel. Steve siys it would be noticed the stove- He brings it inside to thaw Out, better if the minufacturers used pipe (arrow) form- and then puts it out for one stainless steel because then they ed by the hot breath of the wouldn't rust. He slows down beavers living be- the rust by treating his traps. ow. When he dug lop: Steve is using his freighter He burns cedar boughs on top in, he found pieces toboggan, which is ideal for travel- ot hot coals and says the gum of poplar chewed by the beavers. ling over deep snow. He also has rum the boughs wUl dye the a sled with runners for use on a Here, he's lowering hard trail. He prefers dogs to a I raps and last for three or four the trap attached snowmobile because they're not as vers before rust appears again. to the stake which noisy as the machine and 'besides His success as 1 trapper has he'll drive Into the mud. I like dogs". He has two Huskies attracted the attention of the (one above) and a Labrador with German Shepherd blood. Continued on Page 19

FRRUARY 1972 PAGE FWTflN RETIREMENTS

OLAF HANSEN the electrolytic refinery. Moving "You know, Inco's been very up the ladder on all the key jobs good to us, but we're going out there, Mike was appointed fore- west next year, back home to the man in 1964. foothills." PERCY DYCE Percy Dyce's retirement marks the end of a 37-year association with the Company. All of Percy's 'TTh service was spent at the Copper T Cliff Mill where he worked as a general foreman for the last two After a short cake break, Bob Burfords cohorts in mines planning years. gathered around him during his last day at work for a presentation. Chief mines engineer Bob Hall did the honors for the group and gave Bob a Born at Elmwood near Owen desk pen set and book ends. The two items were fashioned from Sound, he moved as a child to local ore. Olaf Hansen, (everybody calls Espanola where he began a 10- him "Tiny" because his 260 BOB BURFORD CPR before starting with Inco. pounds hang on an over-6-foot He was born at Cartier. In the Gardening will be but one of the frame), is retiring to Alberta's transportation department, he was pastimes to be enjoyed by Bob Pembina Valley where he grew a conductor for 15 years. Burford who, for the past two up after moving as an infant from Although officially "off the years, was super- the United States. tracks" now, Wilf can still keep visor of mines Tiny started shaft sinking with planning in Cop- the Company in 1940 at Garson. per Cliff. Bob He had come east as a guard on was born in Cop- a silk train after getting experi- year stint in the pulp and paper per Cliff and ence on the Edmonton police industry before coming to Inco. started with Inco force. Percy married Gabrielle Duran- at Creighton With Inco, Tiny also spent 25 leau in Sudbury in 1937. Mrs. Mine in 1933. years at Murray Mine, working ¶ He was mine engineer at Murray Dyce was born in Coniston but for 20 years as a skiptender. grew up in Espanola and Mont- Mine from 1947 until 1970. Tiny married Maren Bording real. They have two children Bob married Ivy Milligan in in Edmonton in 1928, the year and the same number of grand- up-to-date about Inco's railroad. Sudbury in 1936. Mrs. Burford after she came to Canada from children. His daughter, Lillian, is married was born in Lancashire, England, her native Norway. to Stan Weatherbee, an Inco and came to Canada in 1925. JEAN MARIE GAGNON locomotive engineer. Daughter Kathleen is married to MIKE ISZAK Jean Marie Gagnon was born in Married in 1936 to Irene Mor- Pieter Bregman, a process tech- It took 45 years before Mike 1907 in Quebec's Matapedia Val- rison, Wilf is the father of three nician in the FBR building at Iszak had a chance to revisit his ley, not far from New Brunswick. and the grandfather of four. The Copper Cliff and their son, Les, homeland in Hungary but he As a teenager he couple live in Copper Cliff but works at Copper Cliff North finally accomplished it last sum- -'" helped his father also have a home in L.ittle Mine. mer. "Not much change in the - on his 150 acre Current. farm. In 1942, he ALBERT MAYNARD cut pulpwood RENE LAVIGNE Albert Maynard may be retired & and then moved Rene L.avigne's continuous serv- from Inco but he's still carrying to Arvida, Que- ice with the Company dates back a lunch pail; after moving to bec, and employ- North Bay, he began working full ment with the time for a mining equipment firm. Aluminum Company of Canada. He joined Inco in 1945, start- ing in the leaching, calcining and sintering department, but trans- old town of Turterekes", he said, ferred to the yard department in "but it was sure nice to see my 1946 and remained there until brother and sister again." retirement. Mike left the family farm in During a celebration on the 1926 for Canada and Port Col- family farm in 1934, Jean met to 1948 when he started at the borne. The Welland Canal was Rose Anne Chasse and they were Copper Refinery. He stayed at being built and Mike was hired married soon after. They had the refinery and was a shift boss Albert was born in London, as a handyman around one of the one son and two grandchildren in the casting department during England and came to Canada in big steam shovels. After comple- now complete the family picture. the last six years. Rene was born 1926. He started to work for tion of the canal, Mike worked Mrs. Gagnon died in 1935. Jean in Hull, Quebec, and preceded his Inco in 1935 at the Copper Cliff in a grocery store. remarried in 1947 to Cecile Inco years with four years in Smelter but from 1963 onwards He met Margaret Szep when Robert of Port Colborne. France and Belgium with the he worked at the iron ore plant making a delivery and they were Canadian Army during the Sec- as a maintenance rriechanic 1st wed in 1930. They have two WILF HINDS ond World War. class. From 1940 through 1945 children son Michael Jr. works Wilf Hinds' assignment to the Rene was married in 1947 in he served with the Royal Cana- at No. 3 Research Station. Four transportation department was a Sudbury to Ernestine Ranger. She dian Air Force. Before coming grandchildren complete the fam natural enough one when he grew up in Hanmer where the to the Company he worked for ily group. joined the Company in 1936. couple now live. Of their three eight winters in the northern On- In July 1930, Mike joined Inco Wilf worked for nine years as a children, Louise is married to tario bush for lumber companies. as part of the basement gang in welder and a trackman for the Levack Mine driller Joe Proulx. Albert married Elva Robinson

PAGE SIXTEEN INCO TRIANGLE in Toronto in 1940. They have TED HARBER Nipissing, he might be more em- four children. Mrs. Maynard If Ted Harber's power should barrassed than the average out- grew up in Sudbury. fail at his Copper Cliff home, he doorsman. For Walt guidcd and will certainly know who to ask MIKE TOKAREK for help. His son, Jim, is a Mike Tokarek joined the Com- linesman 2nd class in the power pany in 1941 working in the department, and his daughter, Copper Cliff Mill. He was born Betty Lyn. is married to David at Vakaw between Prince Albert and Saskatoon and worked for Of the Cotes' seven children, six years as a professional artist two sons work at Levack Mine: before joining Inco. He was a Robert is a driller and Andrew sand filter operator at the big is a garage mechanic 2nd class. milling complex in Copper Cliff, Their daughter, Frances, is mar- trapped there, particularly the In 1938, Mike married Mary ried to Rene Bradley, another West Arm, for 23 years before Remus who hailed from near Levack miner. joining Inco in 1943. He was a stripper and sheet man in the JOSEPH FORTUNE Copper Refinery tank house. "I enjoyed many happy years of Sinclair, who works as a linesman Born in Dunnville, Walt mar- service with a wonderful group helper in the same department. ried Anne Souliere in 1964. Mrs. of guys", was the way Joe For- Ted was born in Webbwood Crumb was born in Pembroke. tune summed up but his family later moved to Of their five children, two his years with Sudbury. He started as analyst daughters married Inco men, both . hco. at the Copper refinery in 1937. employed at the Copper Cliff After working He interrupted his Inco service Smelter. Marie is married to Prince Albert. They have nine in the gold mines to see action overseas in the welder 2nd class Timmy Leves- children and three grandchildren. in Kirkland Lake Second World War with the Ca- que, and Doreen is the wife of The Tokareks lived in Sudbury and at the nadian Army. 1st class instrument man Robert for many years but are now resid- Atomic Energy Married in 1943, Ted took a Hood. The Crumbs also have ing in Kelowna, British Columbia. plant in Deep Copper Cliff girl, the former II grandchildren. Mike has a little work shop set River, he started as a stationary Norma Duncan, for his bride. RUSSELL ASIIMORE up in their new home where he engineer at Creighton Mine in Mrs. Harber worked in the gen- Russ Ashmore grew up on a carves animals and birds. 1948. eral offices at Copper Cliff for farm near Sault Ste. Marie but In 1938 Joe married Patricia six years before the Second JACK ARMSDEN never really lost contact with the McKinnon in Chapeau, Quebec. World War, They have two "I never thought all those years She died in 1969. Two years children and one grandchild. would go by so fast - maybe later, he remarried the former it's because I enjoyed my 31 Loella McKinnon at Allumette LEVIS DIONNE Island, Quebec, where they now Levis Dionne, known as "Papa", reside. is the father of six children. This The couple has one son and may be a big North American one daughter and two grandchil- dren. WILBERT JEW1TF Wilbert "Bill" Jewitt was born in area. During retirement he plans North Bay but grew up at Wal- camping and holiday trips to the ford. Before joining Inco in same land he knew as a lad. years with the Company." Jack 1935, he worked for eight years Russ started with the Company Armsden was looking back on a -i in 1939. He worked at Creigh- career that started in 1940. All ton as a construction leader on of his Inco years were spent at family, but it can't compare with 24 and 2500 levels. Frood Mine where he worked "at the 22-child family of which His wife, the former Emily many different jobs and on many Levis was but one. Stafford, is also from the Soo. of the Frood's levels". Papa was born at Noelville They were married there in 1938 Jack's pre-Inco employment in- where he farmed with his father and have three children and three cluded 12 years as a meatcutter before coming to the company grandchildren. in Orillia where he grew up. in 1943. He left Inco in 1950 It was also in Orillia that Jack Ii but returned the same year. Nine RON McFARLANE helping construct the Trans Can- married the former Frieda Schaus of his 20 years' service were Ron McFarlane was born in Ot- ada Highway in the Espanola in 1934. They have one child spent on the motor crew at Gar- tawa. After a six-year stint in area. and two grandchildren. son Mine. the RCAF as an aircraft me- Bill started at the Copper Cliff Papa married the former Lucia chanic, he came to the Company ERNIE COTE Smelter but transferred later to Aubin at River Valley in 1941. Ernie Cote was born at Ste. Rose the Frood Open Pit and finally Of their six children, two daugh- de Lima, Quebec, near Hull. He to Creighton for his last 15 years. ters are married to Inco men, farmed with his family before His jobs included 16 years as a Rachelle to Bob Tessier, a 2nd coming to Levack Mine. Ernie haulage driver at the open pit. -_..) - class maintenance mechanic at worked as a stope boss and pil Married in 1937 to the former Frood Mine, and Jeanne to Ray lar leader for about 25 of his 31 Irene Nicholson, Bill is the father Leclair, a 2nd class welder at years with the Company. of two and the grandfather of Stobie Mine. Five grandchildren In 1941, he married Jeannette three. Mrs. Jewitt was born in are welcome visitors at the Dion- Chevrier at Chelmsford where Medicine Hat, Alberta but grew nes' home in Sudbury. the couple now reside. Mrs. up at Iron Bridge between Sud- in 1937. All his service was at Levack Mine where he held vari- Cote's father, Frank Chevrier, re- bury and the Soo. Their son, WALTER CRUMB ous underground and surface tired from the Company in 1968 Ivan, works as a materials clerk If Walter Crumb ever comes with 27 years' service, all at Le- in the planned maintenance de- home with an empty bag when jobs. vack Mine. partment at Copper Cliff. fishing or hunting around Lake Continued on Next Page

FEBRUARY 1972 PAGE SEVENTEEN Mine as a shift boss in 1943. In Fl) LACOURSE r-i 1951 he was promoted to divi- Eddie Lacourse knows the town ç sional foreman. of Sturgeon Falls like the palm Ev1EN of his hand - he operated a taxi there for 20 years before coming Continued from Previous Page to lnco in 1943. His original hack was literally one horse- Married in 1937 to the former power: a horse and buggy re- Phyllis Divine, Ron is the father placed by a horse-drawn sled in of three and the grandfather of winter, three. Phyllis was born in Pem- broke but moved as a child to Ottawa. Their daughter, Joan, is L•• married to Ray Parker, a shift ;. 4• Gordon married Kathleen boss at Levack Mine. Beales of Copper Cliff in 1939. and from 1951 until retirement, The couple plan to travel and They have five children and he worked in the Frood plate have established a home in Flor- seven grandchildren. shop where he was a plateworker ida. They are living presently in Gordon and his wife have 2nd class. Levack where Mrs. McFarlane is now moved to Ottawa, but both Carlo married Vincenza (Jean- the librarian at the public school. said they have fond memories of ette) Deloli in 1938. Mrs. De their years in Levack, where Eddie was born in Worthing- ARMAND VAUDRY Luca was born in Winnipeg. Gordon was on the town council ton but grew up at Gogama, With the exception of three They have two children. for 20 years. Sturgeon Falls and Sudbury. He months' work at Frood Mine, worked in the winding shop for JOE PETERSON ONNI RINTAMAKI all of Armand Vaudry's service Czechoslovakian-born Joe Peter- the last eight years but prior to was spent in the Born in central Finland, Onni that, he was 'M" floor leader in son came to Canada in 1929. Rintamaki came to Canada in / ) crushing plant at the smelter roaster department. Copper Cliff. He 1929. He started with Inco five Married in 1942, Eddie is the worked in the years later shaft father of two children. His wife, receiving bins for sinking at the former Beatrice Jodouin, was ' / 10 years and as Creighton No. 5. born at Crystal Falls near Stur- a screen operator - In 1936, he left geon Falls. They have three the Company but - for 18 years. grandchildren. Dennis Gallant, .1 Armand was returned to stay a diesel loaderman at Stobie in 1951. For the born at Pembroke where he Mine, is married to their daugh- worked on a farm before joining last four years, After 10 years on Great Lakes ter, Diana. the Company in 1937. He was he was a shift freighters, he joined the Com- married in 1945 to Jeanne boss in the rock house at Crean MARTIN J. COULES pany at Creighton. A year Rochefort at Astorville, near Hill Mine. For 37 years, Martin Coules later he moved to Garson Mine North Bay. Mrs. Vaudry died Onni's marriage took place in worked at the Copper Cliff Smel- in 1961. and stayed there until retirement. Copper Cliff in 1936. His wife, ter, 28 of them as a craneman in Joe was on the motor crew for the former Laila Johnson, was the Orford build- TONY BONOKOSKJ 25 years. born in Creighton but grew up ing. Prior to For Tony Bonokoski, 1941 was Married in 1948 in Sudbury to in Timmins. They have two coming to Inco a very important year: he mar- Ann Ryback, Joe is the father of children and six grandchildren. in 1934, he was ried Lorraine LeRossignol and two and the grandfather of two. Onni loves fishing and hunt- employed in con- also started at Frood Mine. Both Mrs. Peterson was born near ing. The Rintamakis' island on struction in Sud- Brandon, Manitoba. Lake Penage, their cottage on bury. Ella Lake and their home at ." My health is CHARLIE ROVINELLI Beaver Lake are all good sources -excellent,"I says Chapleau-born Charlie Rovinelli of those two sports. When Martin who is an avid sports fan. started with the Company in younger, Onni was a wrestler He particularly enjoys following 1929. He worked at the Copper and won the Ontario champion- horseracing, although bowling, ship in 1934.

Some of Onni Rin- Tony and his wife were born in -' tamaki's frIends Torquay, Saskatchewan. Before put together a funny "travelling joining Inco, Tony worked on kit" for him, but farms in the west and was a the duffle bag on movie projectionist for two years. 'I the left was no laughing matter. It At Frood Mine, Tony was a drill Cliff Smelter in the reverb fur- contained a sleep- fitter for 24 years and later a naces department as a haleman ing bag and foam maintenance mechanic 2nd class. and as a cranenlan. rubber mattress. The Bonokoskis have three Some of the Crean Married in 936 to Mary Hill staff who were children and live on their farm in Castanza, Charlie is the father of on hand for the Hanmer. With family members one son. Mrs. Rovinelli was born presentation were spread across the country, the at Thetford Mines, Quebec. divisional foreman couple plan a lot of travelling. Elmer Manninen, The Rovinellis are living in area superinten- Sudbury. Their retirement plans CARLO De I.UCA dent Keith Hen- include a trip to Europe. derson, mainten- Carlo Dc Luca came to Canada ance supervisor from Calabria, Italy in 1925. GORDON FRENCH Ray Condie, Onni, Until 1940 when he started at Most of Gordon French's 36 mine superinten- dent Frank Kelly, Creighton Mine, he worked for years were spent at l.evack Mine. and general fore- 10 years as a shoeniaker in Sud- He joined lnco in 1935 at Frood man Max Ireland. bury. In 1945 he went to Froocl Mine, then transferred to I.evack

PAGE E1GH-rEEr INCO TRIANGLE hockey and baseball are also his Christine Dryburgh, now live in favorites. Being a rockhound at Little Current. The Cotes have Inco lakes aclion Trapping heart, he finds great satisfaction one child and four grandchildren. Continued from Page 14 Continued from Page 15 in prospecting. Martin and his wife lived in CLEO BRUNELLE station on Ash Street. nco's Lands and Forests Department Sudbury for some time but now CIco Brunelle started at Levack readings, which are recorded in and Steve is contacted when the live in North Bay where they Mine in 1937. Transferring to the smelter control room, en- Department wants a "nuisance" will possibly make their perma- Frood Mine in 1941, he left the hle the Company to take early beaver disposed. Steve explain- nent home. They have two chil- action. The control room opera- ed that nuisance beavers cause dren and are the grandparents tor calls Toronto every four damage to railroad ties and to of three. hours, or on-the-hour if SO2 farmers. f a nuisance beaver readings are rising, to get the is discovered in the spring or ELIO PEGORARO government's AP and other data summer, Steve gets special per- Had Leo Pegoraro stayed with from the official Ash Street mission from Lands and Forests the Company from the first time station. to trap out of season. he started, he would have retired Before the AP reaches 32, Lands and Forests was so im- with a whopping 48 years' serv- voluntary cutbacks include the pressed with Steve that they ice. Leo joined Mond Nickel in Company in 1943, but returned two electric furnaces and nine lured him to teach the Indians in 1947 to Garson Mine where converters using the 350-foot t the Gogama Indian Reserve he remained. He worked on the Orford stack; and the copper how to use the Conibear trap. motor crew. flash furnace, five copper con- Steve said, "they were suspicious Cleo was born in Hanmer verters and the nickel oxide that could teach them any- where he and his wife, the former roaster plant utilizing the 500- thing at first, but they listened to Cecile Tremblay, now reside. foot "copper stack". me. told them could almost Mrs. Brunelle was born in Cap- Voluntary cutbacks continue guarantee they'd improve their reol. They have three children. until the air quality has improv- catch if theyd use the Conibear ed to a satisfactory level. my way. And those that tried 1923 at Levack Mine but he left JUOZAS VAICELIUNAS Further reductions in emissions it, improved their catch 75 per the Company's employ three Juozas Vaiceliunas came to Can- may be made if conditions war- cent," he said. Steve travels times before settling down in ada from Lithuania in 1948, and rant. to Gogama every two weeks to 1945. He worked as a shaft hasn't stopped travelling since. In addition to these measures, give his classes. sinker at Frood, Stobie and Le- He has crossed stack heaters are used to main- vack Mines. the United States Steve retired from Inco in tain temperature and velocity of Leo was born in Italy and eight times, visi- 1965 after 31 years with the rP, the gases for maximum disper- came to Canada in 1923. His ted II countries Company. He worked at sion thereby reducing ground- father, the late Albina Pegoraro, in Europe in Creighton, Frood, Levack, Frood level SO2 concentrations. also worked for the Company. 1961 and in 1964 Open Pit, Stobie Mine, and Mrs. Laurette Schumacher be- made a trip Clarabelle Open Pit. Daughter came Leo's wife in 1960. They around the world. Helena is married to Teddy Rockhound Boyle, Jr., a welder at Stobie have six children and four grand- IL After working Continued from Page 9 children. Mrs. Pegoraro was born for awhile at the sinter plant in Mine, Anne is married to Gerald in Montreal and grew up in the Copper Cliff Smelter and at kits he prepares for children. Rose, a welder at Frood, Linda Peterboro. Their daughter, Mar- the Coniston Smelter, he trans- He's given way over 5,000 in the is the wife of Joe Shirley, a gueritte, is married to Lorenzo ferred back to the Copper Cliff past 15 years; over 700 alone in Frood storeman. the last school year. As Ser- Noel, a construction leader at Smelter in 1949 and worked in Son Paul is a 2nd class mech- geant Walford, Lloyd's job as Stobie Mine. the Orford building as a convey- anic at Copper Cliff. Steve's safety coordinator with the Cop- Leo and his wife will soon erman and skimmer until his best-known son is St. Louis per Cliff Police takes him into move to Wiarton where they are retirement. Blue's hockey player Frank St. eight schools throughout the remodelling a home. In 1943 he married Karolina Marseille. Another son, Fred, is Nickel District. Urbanaviciute in Lithuania. Dur- currently headlining the enter- WILLIAM J. COTE ing the war he was separated He doesn't mind the work or tainment at the Disneyland "I want to thank Inco for their from his wife and son Arvydas expense involved in making the Hotel in Santa Anna, California. pension, medical, and insurance who are still behind the Iron sample kits. "After all the rocks Steve has three more daughters plan. It gave me a feeling of Curtain. aren't mine," he reflected. "R's and two sons; 12 grandaughters all part of nature and the more and 11 grandsons complete his JOHN BAILEY people you can interest in col- family. John Bailey was born in Lanca- lecting, the better." Besides, he shire, England but came to Can- said, lots of kids wouldn't get ada at age two. He started in collections if they had to pay Fourth quarter 1935 at Frood for them. He also makes a series Continued from Page 2 Mine where he of bigger sets for adults and worked 20 years more recently has begun to ductions and the costs of sus- pending operations at certain as a stope leader. dabble in making very attractive security," says Jim Cote who has Looking back on bracelets with polished stones. mines and surface facilities, worked for the Company since his 36 years in Although the kits vary from which were put on a standby 1941. the mine, John year to year, Lloyd's sample basis so that "full production, Jim came to Inco from Little • said that one of boxes usually contain uranium, when required, can be resumed Current where he was a police the biggest coal, feldspar, iron ore, pyrite, with a minimum of delay," he constable for five years. He changes he saw was the conver- talc, nickel, copper, onyx, quartz, said. joined the Town of Copper Cliff sion to roof bolting from timber- marble. Coal is the hardest to nternational Nickel's board of police force and from 1960 until ing in order to stabilize work get, he said, and interestingly, directors have declared a quar- his retirement was stationed at areas. few children recognize it when terly dividend of 25 cents a Frood.Stobie. Prior to police The father of three children, they see it: they live in the oil share. n 1971, the company work, Jim sailed the Great Lakes John was married to Inez OBrien age. paid dividends of 40 cents a for eight years as a wheelman at Coniston in 1947. Mrs. Bailey Oh yes, about that gallstone, share in March and June, and and second mate. died in June 1971. His son, Jim, it's real ... as Levacks Joe 25 cents a share in September Jim and his wife, the former works as a driller at Stobie Mine. Dusick, the donor, will testify. and December.

FEBRUARY 1972 PAGE NINETEEN 1972 Scholarship Program for Children of lnco Employees

Up to nineteen scholarships will be awarded this year for study in Canadian universities. The awards have a possible tenure of up to four years and annually provide for tuition and associated fees and a grant of $500 for other expenses. ELIGIBILITY Children of Inco employees enrolled in a program of studies required for university entrance and who will graduate with a secondary school diploma in 1972. SELECTION An impartial Scholarship Committee will meet May 20, 1972 to select award winners on the basis of scholastic standing and personal qualifications. It is hoped the names of the winners can be announced by June 1, 1972. APPLI CATION Application forms, instructions and conditions governing the awards may be obtained from local schools or from: Educational Aid Section The International Nickel Company of Canada, Limited PO. Box 44 Toronto-Dominion Centre Toronto 111, Ontario APPLICATION DEADLINE Applications must be completed by May 1, 1972