500,000 long tons of iron concentrates shipped in one year the story of a tough mining job successfully completed 10 exploitation of a magnetite iron ore deposit on vancouver island british columbia by the ar onaut co ltd a wholly owned subsidiary presented many difficulties before any iron ore concentrate could be floated away the deposit was in o heavily wooded area which had to be cleared of trees and stumps roads had to be built pit levels pioneered and product a twenty-three mile road was constructed from the mill to a ship dock which was built to berth ore carrying vessels since actual mining operations began in the fall of 1951 600,000 cubic yards of overburden have been stripped ind over 800,000 long tons of ore have bi hauled to the ship dock loaded ont 1 . drilling holes in the limestone for blasting from which iron ore is removed 3 diesel pi m ned over 500,000 long tons of concentrates have been processed by ve sels and shipped to japan the pictures above show from left to right id removal of overburden 2 blasting ore from one of the many benches ered shovel loading an ore dump truck while o tractor cleans up a truck dumping ore into crushing plant preparatory to concentration of crushed ore by the mill 5 ore con from mill to loading dock a distance of 23 miles 6 concentrate stockpile at dock for loading rates being hauled board ocean vessels 11