Canada Nickel Company Inc V.CNC

Endzone: 1964= an exciting time!!

[rockhound3]

However I didn't realize at the time- I was only 19!

Some of the trivia:
- seeing the Texas Gulf camp of 20 tents from a G2A chopper
- flying from Pamour to walk the streams to pickup silt samples
- flying at low levels in this MASH type chopper with the moose running ahead through the muskeg
- the black flies, horse flies & moose flies with 90 degree temp and long sleeves, hat etc
- on August 14 at 4pm seeing the drill leave the Windfall property
- being in a float plane after landing on a lake north of Timmins on August 15 and Windfall Oil and Gas didn't open on the TSE
- working with another young man whose father was the CEO of Anglo American = most importantly stopping the young man from walking into the spinning tail rotor of the G2A

Of course I only realized the significance of what was going on until later!

Several of the take aways:
The Timmins area has lots of interesting geology with gold mining for over100 yrs

There is not a lot of logic to the geology

Inco had flown the area and rated Kidd Creek as a third level anomaly!

A lot of people have spent a lot of time trying to find the 2nd Kidd Creek =with no luck yet!

A very exciting area with many nice people!

Dont give up the search 

Rock

[PCGuy10]

I remember the Northern Miner having an article looking back at that time. Everyone was relaxing in the bar of the hotel across from the old train station. A lady walked in wearing enough gold to sink a battleship and was looking for the Helocopter Pilot. She explained that she wanted to go for a ride. The pilot told her he charged $100/hr. She replied "So do I". The two then left the

[EndZonefor7]

LOL PCGuy.

[yureja5]

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[EndZonefor7]

Crazy times rockhound ! Easy to not realize it at the time. Great save on the kid in the prop. Not sure who Rod Greene is ?

[PCGuy10]

- flying at low levels in this MASH type chopper with the moose running ahead through the muskeg - the black flies, horse flies & moose flies with 90 degree temp and long sleeves, hat etc - working with another young man whose father was the CEO of Anglo American = most importantly stopping the young man from walking into the spinning tail rotor of the G2A I was an army reservist for 6 years