by Linda Purcehke —

The days of the gold
rush may not ba quite
over yet, as about 69
miners from al) over the
province gathered at the

Friday

chance to stake a cleim

based on data released by
* the ministry of mines,
energy and resources at
10 a.m.

The miners, from
major. companies, as well
as independent
. operators, pald $20.a copy
for the da
the results of surveys
taken in the rough square
between Prince Rupert,

Kitwanga, a total area of
over 12,000 squaré miles.

The survey shows 4111
locations where about 13
elements cme found, in-
cluding ¢ silver,
nickel, an zine. A
ministry official stated
there was no direct trace
of gold, but there were
aome indications that it

photo ‘oy Linde Purschke

It was miners checking maps and into helicopters f for the rush

morning to try toget first firet .

, which lists §.

Stewart, Kitimat and

The Herald Monday, June 25, L072, Poue® t

‘HELICOPTERS NOW
- A new gold rush?

might be present.
e costs involved in

minere walting in Ine for
the data.

“Tt costa $880 an hour to
rent a helicopter, with a
minimum of three

10 feet solid pipe

hours,” said Fraser, exp

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TOKYO (CP)..— Back
home:in the foothills of
eprawline Yollovhead,

ding, Prime Minister
Joetaritae s town to aave.

The>4,300 residents of
Grande Cache hope he will
be able to do it. while In
Tokyo this week for the
seven-country economic
meeting. ;

While many Canadians
may be unaware of the amall
Alberta coal-mining com:
munity 300 miles west of
Edmonton, some fd cars

feawnto anise! ait ane

pan.) sign contract
re ei itor about i 10 million
to to impart eoal from the
town’s Smoky River mine.
Japan has committed .
Itself’ to iniporting © two"
million tons af high-grade
coal from mine to burn in its
stee) furnaces, What worriss
the townspeople is that the
Japaneses, the mine's only
significant customer, plan no
further purchases after 1081. :
. The town fathers are
counting on their MP, who
Also happens to be the prime |
minister, to persuade the
Japances to keep the town
and the mine allve.

the algn is just as far from

any centre of activity as it -

as in 1970.

But the town has, in its
short life developed a flerce
civic pride.

So loyal in the population,.
aaid one of the town’s four
doctors in a recent dinner

conversation, that almost.

everyone becomes ‘tight-

pred when a television -

crew comes from Edmonton
to report on labor difficulties
in the mine or uncertalnty {n
international coal markets.
i happens once or twice a

yore
a mae sald,
n't talk to

towne
So we oe
them anymore,”

One of the town pioneers, a ,

‘gainer's- wife from ‘Cape
‘Breton, said she would never
leave Grande Cache, even if
it vingatt th oem evi and
off the family savings.
a jalner. foe he made As
ying everything
eal from local merchants,
even if he knew prices were
better in Edmonton, to booat
the town's economy.
Nell Duncan, an engineer
with the Alberta Energy
Conservation Commission,

Grande Cache appeared on, gays there is ttle chance

the map 4 decade ago when
the Japanese signed a 14-
year agreement with
McIntyre Mines Ltd. to
Smoky Mountain coal.

that,’ all there had
been: was a potentially
valuable coal deposit con-
sideréd -too expensive to
exploit without an assured
market,

A town sprung up virtually
overnight with a spectacular
mountain backdrop, ita own
small hospital, a movie
theatre, shopping centre and
rows of neat split-level
houses, Miners were brought
in from Cape Breton and the’
United Kingdom.

Far beyond the outskirts of

- fown a sign was posted
listing the population — a
trace optimistically — at
§,000. The idea was to leave
plenty of room fer growth.
y, with a population

still 700 short of that posted,

Drivers

go shortin

Ontario
TORONTO <«(CcP) —

Al gasoline |e not
being wtuoted in Ontario as

in the United States, some

Ontario residents who own

older cara will face gasoline
shortages this month,

The reason |e that the

major ofl companies have

ped producing premium
tended gasoline,

Company spokesmen say
the demand for premium
leaded qatoline
decreasing, while the
demand for premium un-
leaded ip growing.

* Joe Cottreau, a spokesman
for Guif Canada Led, sald
the company stopped selling

mium leaded ascline 4

‘oronto this mon the
fuel robably is still
avallable in only a few gas
stations In Northern Ontario.

Grande Cache could survive
without renewal of ita
Japanese contract,

“It's almost entirely a
mine town and the prince ipal
market is Japan,” he said in
arecent interview, About 680
people work in the mine,

“If the mine were to shut It
would be disastrous."

Duncan is not sure how
serious tha Japancse are

about cancelling thelr
contract in 1981,
“They're known for

making these “kinds of
Statements to make people
jover here sharpen their
‘pencils, But he acknowl
edges that provincial of-
ficial are worried.

ta oane Cache sells its coal

to Japan for #42 a ton.
Duncan estimates it costs

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billion worth of exports to
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