The mining town of Sudbury recently welcomed the Prince and Princess of Wales, who visited the northern Ontario community as part of a 6-day provincial tour.
In honor of the visit, nickel producer Inco (TSE) announced a special reforestation program with 10,000 seedlings and a $500,000 donation to an area cancer lodge.
The seedlings, mostly jack pine grown almost one mile underground in an Inco mine, will be brought to surface next spring for planting throughout the Sudbury region.
At Inco, Prince Charles was given a tour of the company’s land-reclamation program in which 2,000 acres of waste from the mining process are being restored. The objective is to turn the acreage into a wildlife refuge. Also, Prince Charles initiated a new phase of Inco’s sulphur dioxide abatement program when he “tapped” one of two new oxygen flash furnaces. When complete in December, 1993, the project will allow for containment of 90% of the sulphur in the nickel-copper sulphide ores treated at the Copper Cliff complex, Inco said.
Princess Diana officially opened the Daffodil Terrace, a 70-room residence for cancer patients being treated at an adjacent regional cancer treatment centre.
Inco has welcomed other members of the Royal Family to its Sudbury area operations. The prince’s grandparents and parents made separate trips. In 1939, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visited the Frood mine, then the largest nickel mine in the world. The royal pair descended to the 2,800-ft. level. The Queen was the first woman to go underground in a hardrock mine, breaking an old miner’s taboo about females below ground, Inco said. In 1959, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip also visited the Frood mine, descending to the 1,000-ft., level. The Queen and Prince Philip returned to Sudbury in 1984, when the Queen opened Science North.
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