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The John Batchelor Show

MANITOBA NICKEL MINING ST 18: DAVID HENDERSON, HOOVER

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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MANITOBA NICKEL MINING ST 18: DAVID HENDERSON, HOOVER

1910 GREENLAND

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0:00.0

This is CBSI on the world.

0:06.1

I'm John Batchel.

0:07.2

Free trade, fair trade.

0:09.4

It comes down to an anecdote I have from David Henderson,

0:13.5

from the Hoover Institution,

0:16.8

about the summer of 1969,

0:20.2

in a nickel mine in Manitoba, very north Manitoba.

0:25.4

David, a very good evening to you. You're in a nickel mine. You're 18 years old. What did you

0:29.9

learn that day, those days you worked? And a nickel mine, David? What do you mean a nickel mine?

0:35.9

Good evening to you.

0:39.6

It's a big hole in the ground.

0:42.7

The lowest level was 2,300 feet.

0:45.9

The one closest to the service was 300 feet.

0:49.7

It was owned by a major Canadian nickel company called Inco.

0:54.2

I worked for a subcontractor that did diamond drilling.

0:56.0

We weren't drilling for diamonds.

0:57.8

The bits were made of diamonds.

1:00.4

And we brought core to the surface.

1:02.3

The geologists looked at it.

1:03.8

Now, why did I choose that job?

1:06.5

I was on my own financially from age 16.

1:08.0

I started college at age 16.

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