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The Search for Uranium in Canada
A little more than four years ago, the Canadian government lifted the
ban on uranium prospecting in the Northwest Territories and in the Yukon,
the federal territories under its jurisdiction, and the search has been going on
apace in those areas since then.
Early in August of this year, uranium prospecting in Canada was given
further great impetus. The expiration of three-year contracts given out by
the provincial government of Saskatchewan to a number of large mining
syndicates was followed by a rush of prospectors to that province. By the
hundreds they swarmed over the rough country in the Beaverlodge and Gold-
fields area north of Lake Athabaska. Over the lonely land of rock, lake and
forest, they worked with their Geiger counters after going into the area by
plane, by canoe and by any other means available.
The prospectors, alerted to any evidence of radio-activity, are of many
kinds. There are hardened veterans of the bush, geologists representing
mining companies, and newcomers lured by adventure and the promise of
wealth. All have been at it with unrelenting speed at Beaverlodge—believed
to contain some of the richest deposits of pitchblende extant, a belief that is
supported by the results to date. Prospectors in Saskatchewan this year have
had one watchword—speed. In the staking of claims, it’s first come, first
served. And in this instance, speed serves the cause of human freedom as
well as the interests of the individual prospector.
A Crown company, Eldorado Mining and Refining Limited, has a monop-
oly over the refining of uranium in Canada and it is going ahead full speed in
all its operations and programs of expansion. At Port Radium in the North-
west Territories, at Beaverlodge, and at Port Hope, Ontario, no stone is being
left unturned to get maximum results in the shortest possible time. Eldorado’s
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