Sinter Plant Photo Gallery One

This is Gerhard (Jerry) Wunschmann, weighing ore samples in the lab.

(Photo provided by Gerhard Wunschmann)

This view was what greeted visitors coming from the west on the Trans Canada Highway. This picture was taken opposite the Shell Gas Station on Highway 17 in 1963. The area in the foreground was a gravel pit for supplying fill for the construction of the highway. The pit was subsequently used as location for a Drive-in Theatre and then it was a trailer park for a while. This area is now completely grown over.

(Photo provided by George Burns)

This picture was taken in 1964, and shows the stock pile and the screening plant.

(Photo provided by George Burns)

This photo, taken in the middle sixties, shows one of the Euclid trucks being loaded with freshly roasted sinter. Once the truck was loaded, it would take the sinter to either the Screening plant or the Stock Pile.

(Photo provided by the Sault Ste. Marie Public Library)

This is a view of the last sintering machine in use. It was largest of all the machines and nearly had the capacity of all the other machines combined.

(Photo provided Don Pugh)

This is an interior view of the sintering machine. The furnace can be seen in the middle of the picture. It starts the roasting process from the top of the bed down.

(Photo provided Don Pugh)

This is a view from other side of the machine. The feed on the top of the bed has already been roasted.

(Photo provided Don Pugh)

This is another photo of the No. 7 Sintering Machine.

(Photo provided Don Pugh)

This photo was taken in the mid 1940's and shows the Sinter plant in it's original configuration. Sinterville can be easily seen.

(Photo provided by the Sault Ste. Marie Public Library)

This photo was also taken during the mid 1940's. The town of Wawa is visible but not very substantial at that time.

(Photo provided by the Sault Ste. Marie Public Library)

This photo shows the general layout of the Sinter Plant in 1962. The townsite can be seen in the upper portion of the photo.

(Photo provided by Wayne Watson)

This composite picture was taken August 1997, with the sinter plant in its final form. The building in the left of the picture is the "Screening Plant, in the middle is the Sinter plant and to the left is the portal for the conveyor belt that came up from under ground. On the extreme right of the picture is the ACR train station.

(Photo provided by George Burns)

This composite picture taken in August 2000, illustrates the changes after all operations were shut down in 1998. Virtually all signs, that the sinter plant and the railway existed, were removed.

(Photo provided by George Burns)