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Footnotes: Chapter VI

  1. C. Slafter, ed., Sir Humfrey Gylberte and his Enterprise of Colonization in America, p. 165.
  2. D.H. Williamson, The Geology of the Fluorspar District of St. Lawrence, Burin Peninsula, Newfoundland, 1956, D.M.E. p. 1.
  3. W.S. Smith, Flurospar at St. Lawrence, 1957, D.M.E., p. 3. Hereafter cited as W.S. Smith, Fluorspar.
  4. E. Edwards, History of St. Lawrence, 1966, St. Lawrence Public Library, St. Lawrence, Newfoundland.
  5. Report of Royal Commission Respecting Radiation, Compensation and Safety at the Fluorspar Mines, St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, p. 19. Hereafter cited as Royal Commission.
  6. R. Slaney, More Incredible Than Fiction, p. 10.
  7. Ibid., pp. 11-12.
  8. W.S. Smith, Fluorspar, p. 15.
  9. H. Farrell, The Fluorspar Deposits and Operations of the St. Lawrence Corporation Limited, private files of the Aluminum Company of Canada Ltd. (Newfoundland Flurospar Works). Hereafter cited as H. Farrell, Fluorspar Deposits.
  10. Commercial fluorspar is divided into three grades with specifications (re. Royal Commission) as follows: Acid grade: contains minimum 97% CaF2 and maximum 1% Si. Ceramic grade: contains 94-97% CaF2 and maximum 2.25% Si. Metallurgical grade: is graded on the basis of the "effective percentage" of CaF2, which is determined by a formula.
  11. W.S. Smith, Fluorspar, p. 26.
  12. E. Leyton, Dying Hard: The Ravages of Industrial Carnage, p. 25.
  13. Ibid., p. 59.
  14. Fortune, November 1952, p. 236.
  15. R. Slaney, More Incredible Than Fiction, p. 39.
  16. Settlement of Trade Dispute Board... for the Settlement of a Dispute Between the St. Lawrence Corporation of Newfoundland Ltd. and the St. Lawrence Workers Protective Union, pp. 8-9. Hereafter cited as Trade Dispute Board.
  17. Fortune, November1952, p. 236.
  18. Royal Commission, p. 25.
  19. H. Farrell, Fluorspar Deposits.
  20. Report by the Tariff Board Relative to the Investigation ordered by the Minister of Finance Respecting Fluorspar, pp. 55-60.
  21. Royal Commission, p. 263.
  22. W.S. Smith, Fluorspar, p. 4.
  23. Ibid., p. 5.
  24. John Caul discovered the Tarefare vein in the summer of 1935.
  25. Most accounts relate that Louis Kelly and Philip Molloy happened upon the Director vein accidentally. However, the Newfoundland and Labrador Registry of Deeds, vol. 125, fol. 398, suggests that a Thomas Kelly found the vein first while prospecting for Joshua Hookey in January 1933.
  26. C. Brown, "The Heroes of St. Lawrence", Atlantic Insight, October 1979, pp. 92-95 passim.
  27. In 1970, Newfoundland Fluorspar Limited became reorganized into Aluminum Company of Canada Ltd. (Newfoundland Fluorspar Works).
  28. Daily News, 27 August 1975.
  29. Daily News, 26 October 1977.

Abbreviations Used

P.A.N.L. Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador; notation in brackets after P.A.N.L. refers to call number used by Provincial Archives.

C.N.S. Centre for Newfoundland and Studies; on campus of Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's.

D.M.E. Department of Mines and Energy, Provincial Government of Newfoundland and Labrador; refers to reports found in files of that Department.

J.H.A. Newfoundland Journal of the House of Assembly; found in Centre for Newfoundland Studies.