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To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (761173)	4/13/2022 4:35:17 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 793772

Sudbury, moonscape bare rocks, trains of slag tipping sideways down the slag heap. My wife and I and infant son saw that in 1977 enroute from Ottawa to the west. We happened upon it. Initially I wondered why the landscape was bare. It was amazing. As were the mosquitoes trying to get into our tent at night by lake Superior. Fortunately we had good mesh ventilation in the tent entry. I put my spread hand against the mesh and rotated it several millimetres so the mosquitoes could land but not bite. When I removed my hand after a minute, the mesh was black with mosquitoes where my hand had been, exactly in the shape of my hand and fingers. Mqurice PS a customer near Ottawa, Jay Pineau of Noranda Metal Industries built a nickel zirconium tube manufacturing plant to supply nuclear reactor manufacturers. I suppose the nickel was produced at Sudbury. My good old days.

To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (761173)	4/13/2022 9:17:25 AM
From: Alan Smithee	3 Recommendations Recommended By Bruce L D. Long THE WATSONYOUTH Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793772

so, the trees start to get smaller and smaller..........then eventually no trees..... just some shrubby growth here and there........then.....nothing......just barren bed rock.....a veritable moonscape........this was just before INCO built that humongous (1200+ foot) stack for the nickel ore smelter in Copper Cliff....there were a couple of 500 footers but they didn't get the pollution high enough to be carried away by the prevailing winds........the smelter effluent killed everything.........all the vegetation and fish in local lakes out to about 20 miles........once the trees died, the soil just washed away leaving a barren moonscape. I read where the US astronauts actually trained up there....... the big attraction for visitors in summer in the evening was to go out and Summer of 1970 a friend and I were hitchhiking across Canada, starting in Windsor. We got stuck in Sudbury 3 days. Stood by the roadside all day every day and could not get a ride. End of the day we’d trek back to the hostel for the night. Finally got a ride with a guy from Montreal in a VW bug We became friends and rode with him to Vancouver, then South to San Francisco, I remember the Sudbury moonscape well. Huge piles of slag. Not my favorite place.

To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (761173)	4/13/2022 10:00:16 AM
From: jazzlover2	1 Recommendation Recommended By THE WATSONYOUTH Respond to of 793772

Those were the days. The city is much greener now, after decades of rehab. It was a hard rock town back then, probably still is under the skin, but there's worse places to grow up. Working as a summer student for Mother INCO put me through school so I'm grateful to her, plus gave me an interest in commodities investing. I'll never forget at 19 yrs old my first trip in the cage down to 6900 foot level, I forget which shaft in Creighton it was, number 9 maybe? I thought my head was going to split wide open. The people are hard working and decent, not afraid to get their hands dirty, and naturally drawn to a government that claims to "stand up for the working man" although the NDP may not be the same party it once was. I don't get back much anymore so things might be different now, the city has grown immensely after I left. Enjoy the markets.