Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Robert M. Smith

1932--1998
"The Soul" of Barrick Gold.
Worked with Peter Munk on making Barrick gold profitable.
Munk=business. Smith-technical team expert. COO.
Developed mines worldwide. Tech innovations. Environment.
Haileybury Ontario--prospecting. Heard of that.
Mining engineering at U of T in 50s.
Worked at many companies.
Joined Barrick in 84 when his company was acquired (camflo)
Became huge Gold producer in quebec: low cost.
Worked on Holt-McDermott gold in Kirkland lake. big mine action.
Goldstrike? What's that. where is that? Oh it's in Nevada. he did huge on it.
increased gold recovery.

oh and he was big up on education.

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