Frederick R. Archibald

Metallurgic solutions
Creative.
Chemist.
Worked on processes for treating arsenical ores.
Born in Seaforth, 1905.
Queen's. MIT.
Beattie Gold mines Giant Yellowknife minie.
Lakefield Ontario.
in 2nd world war--worked on Uranium plants.
Worked on the Manhattan project! Whoa!

Stayed with Faclonbridge.

Hector Authier-

1881-1971
All Abitibi was his cause-- a region. Val D'Or in Quebec.

was a minister of the crown and a mayro.

Helped formed the Read-Authier syndicate.
Val d'or is in Quebec, Canadian shield, near the ontario border.
Lamanque Gold mine. Sigma Mines.
Worked with Abana-- nonmetal mining.
and then Molybdenite Corporation of canada.

Grew up in Montreal--did law at Laval-- Abitibi is a region.
Sure. Not sure how this guy ended up in mining. Though. Probably where Val D'or is.

Anthony Barriger

Still alive! 1925-- Blank
Pioneer in Geophysics.
Different electronic detecting methods.
technology developer
Barringer research limited. Worked on airborne systems in their early days.
Did a lot of work for mining and oil companies looking for stuff.
Moved to the US in 1977. Denver.

Pierre Beauchemin

Pierre Beauchemin. 1892--1962.

Quebec. One of French Canada's outstanding mine makers.
So is he the money?
Same region-Abitibi. Right?
Formed a mining company with his brothers in 1927.
Sullivan Group. Also in Amos.
Found gold! Brought in production in 1934.

Then found copper-zinc in the East Sullivan Mines in 1954.
"a campside chat on the river in 1923, with a prospector."

Also involved in Lithium production.
"Canada's Mr. Lithium."

Archibald M. Bell

1906--1991

Noranda Man. Explorer

Developed mines:
He is best known for his role in the discovery of the Copper and Needle Mountain orebodies of Gaspe Copper which, at 67 million tons averaging 1.3% copper, could be termed an "elephant" discovery.

Managed Noranda's exploration for 25 years. Took them from Horne mine to around the world company. Huge growth.

Born in Australia to Canadians--came to U of T geolog/Wisconsin, Geology PhD.

After joining Noranda, Bell and Oliver Hall, recommended that they
get the Pamour gold mine in 1936.
Discovered more gold there on same site--the Hallnor property--became Hallnor mine.

1937; examined copper at Copper mountain; examined claims. Gaspe.
Explored. WAR! then back to explore.
elusive success.
Found copper there. lead to Mines Gaspe.
Gaspe copper.

1947; moved to Toronto;
became manager. liked the office; best in bush.
Began to work on geochemical exploration.

60s--did discoveries that lead to Babine lake in BC.
lots of Copper.

Retired in 1972-- formed more companies.

Benjamin Taylor A. Bell

1861--1904
Founding father of Canadian Institute of Mining. The CIM.
Editor of Canadian Mining Review.
Journal of mining and metallurgical pros.

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Bell--came to Canada in 1882. Started at the CMR.
learned quickly. Spoke out against dishonesty.

1889--became honorary member of the Gold Miners Association of NS.
his magazine became its newspiece.

Suggested Quebec make a provincial mining association,
to repeal taxes on their industry: success!

Also voice of Ontario miners. Questioned their organization
because speculators were the members--
1894 lead to the O. M. I.

later they joined forces-- became 1896 the federated CMI.
A new organization. A coalition. 1898-- became full CIM.
Grew. Grew and showed a concern for the industry.

John Paris Bickell

1884--1951

Brokerage f irm-- financier-- became millionaire by 30--
and in 1919-- invested in McIntyre-Porcupine,
Ontario's first gold and major producer.

WWII-- Worked with Airplane supply board getting planes
made for British govt. Worked for Victory aircraft in Canada
on more planes for RCAF.

Philanthropists--gave lots of money, after he died-- had
endowment--which has given massive amounts to Toronto Sick Kids hospital.
Also scholarships for mining endevors.

Born in Molesworth, Ontario (?)
Went to Yukon Goldfields as a young man.
Did buisness in Toronto in early 1900s. Helped finance silver mines in Temiskaming. (?)
Then Timmins region.
Invested early in the McIntyre mine.
Helped make it a rich place.
Also some gold in Quebec; and Silver near Gowganda.



helped make Maple Leaf Gardens! (Toronto)

Selwyn Gwillym Blaylock

1879--1945

Early Cominco guy (Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co.) Executive.
Metallurgy advances. Science.

Began in Quebec--went to school at Bishops and McGill.

1899 moved West-- BC-- surveyor for Canadian Smelting Co / became chemist.
1906 became Con Min Smel Co.
Went from chemist to metalurgist; superintendent of Hall Mines Smelter, Nelson BC.

Recommend the purchase of SULLIVAN MINE.
1919 became GM--then director-vp-md and then President in 1939.

Worked at Cominco. And cared about the workers saftey.
Hockey team was successful. The Trail team.

Got a number of metallurgy awards.

Robert William Boyle

1920--Alive
Geochemsit. worked on methods. helped find places.

worked for prospecting syndicate--
then WWII.
Geology at London College; then Queen's
Then u of T;

Mapped/mine sites/ Yellowknife Gold Camp.
Interested in chemistry of gold deposits.

More school-- phd 1953

1952-- joined the GSC; returned to Yellowknife; working on his Gold theories.
1953-- Went to Keno Hill in the yukon--and geochemistry got more exciting.
Worked there on Keno Hill--helped revive the camp through science!

1955- Asked GSC to set up geochemistry lab for prospecting.
Began mapping in Maritimes for heavy metals.
Later did some work at Cobalt Silver too.

Matthew James Boylen

1907--1970
"The King of the Minemakers"
New Brunswick guy--worked on the Bathurst area for BM&S

"The exploration effort in the Bathurst area was of historic as well as of economic significance. The discoveries in the area established the use of the ground and airborne electromagnetic methods of searching for deposits and provided conclusive proof of the geological concept of volcanogenic sulphide deposits. These major steps served to steer Canadian exploration toward more scientifically based successes and resulted in a new geological model for mineral exploration that has since been used around the world."

Born in Weston Ontario. Grew up in Alberta.
Went to larder lake-- set up hq and trading post for fur traders. Whoa!

1922-- moved into prospecting in Rouyn in Quebec.
1927 full time prospector.

1934 Gold rush in Sturgeon River Ontario. Made Office in Toronto
1940s-- worked on Dulama Gold mines.
48 Anacon lead mines
50 Montaubun Mines.
United Lead and Zinc Mines.
Advocate Asbsestos in Nfld.

Greatest success was New Brunswick.
50s formed a grabstake.
Financed discovery of metal orebodies--that lead to BM&S.

John Ross Bradfield

1899--1983
Major Noranda man.

Began in 1927 as construction superintentendent
kept climbing--
1956 executive. VP. chairman. CEO.
Chairman. honorary chairman.
till he died-- 60 years of service to Noranda. WOW.

Born in Morrisberg--went to McGill; Civil Eng.
Did engineer work on Yankee Stadium. Nice.

Hired early on by the pre-Noranda mines syndicate in New York to
work on engineering drawings in 1922

1970s' Horne mine was running out of Ore: worked on how to diversify:
Gaspe Copper. Geco Mines; MAtagami mines; Zinc plant.
Brunswick Mining and Smelting, Central Canada Potash; Kenedy Lake miens.

William Guy Brissenden

1915--Alive?

Noranda man. Mostly.
Worked as management/executive.

Halifax, NS: went to McGill; Mining Eng.
Was Naval officer in WWII. Solved tech problems in battle of Atlantic.

1948. became mine superintentdent at Noranda.
management/ executive.

Began with Gaspe Copper.
worked on methods. Quebec.

Then Brunswick Mining and Smelting
took over by Noranda-- used it to become major
zinc-lead producer of eastern canada.

Found a way to use ore/continuous smelting--
helped preserve run of the Horne mine.

Eldon Leslie Brown

1900--1998

Brown. Worked in the North.
Northern Ontario?

U of T mining eng. 1922--
Began with Mond Nickel-- went to MB in 1926.
Worked for the syndicate on the Sherritt copper-zinc mine;
the Sherritt Gordon Mines formed 1927. he was first employee and superintendent.

100 miles from a railway--worked in the frontier.
Worked on the development--lead to establishing the community.
Closed by the depression in 1932.

Moved over to God's lake Gold Mines.
Discovered a new deposit there. Small short live; high grade.
Became Madsen Red Lake Gold mines. Around WWII

Returend to SGM.
when could be reopened in 1937-- 1951 it ran out.
became executive.

Worked on LynnLake nickel/copper. Again no railway.
New nickel refining processes.
less sulphur Dioxide.

Maurice Russell Brown

1912--Alive?
Aha-- another Northern Miner veteran reporter. 43 years. Nice.

Began at Port Arthur (now Thunder Bay) Ontario.
Went to U of T for mining eng--1938.
Invited a writer from the Northern Miner to speak to the school;
was fired to go join the paper's staff.

Little Long Lac-- miner/engineer. Gold.

1947 mining engineer instructor at Thunder Bay; at Lakehead TI: became
Lakehead University.

1949-- joined the Northern Miner staff;
traveled to every mining camp.

CAME UP WITH THE IDEA OF THE CMHF!
is most recent initiative was to put forward the concept of The Canadian Mining Hall of Fame as a means of honoring those who have contributed so much to the Canadian way of life and of publicizing those accomplishments to the general public. Brown served as chairman of the Hall for its first four years and continues as a director.

Bernard O. Brynelsen

1911--Alive

Okanagan region of BC; Brenda mine--became a world-class copper mine.
people doubted it would work. low grade.
"noranda's man in the West."

"In fact, at one point and in utter desperation to keep the project alive, Brynelsen mortgaged his home. Such was Brynelsen's "unquenchable optimism and irrepressible enthusiasm," in the words of Noranda's Alf Powis."

His story:
Born in Vancouver--became mining Eng at UBC.
Worked in the placer fields of Yukon.

1948--began with Noranda; as he owned a number of properties that were eaten by Quebec Gold Mining Corp, which was eaten by Noranda.
Lead to him interesting them in the Copper property.
The Brenda Deposit.

Remains active in the industry.
Other Brynelsen successes include the Kennedy Lake mine, Yreka, the Bell copper mine at Babine Lake and the Boss Mountain molybdenum mine in the Cariboo district.

David G. Burchell

1909--1984
David Burchell was a pioneer in Canadian coal mining. He was an explorer, with five underground coal mines to his credit. He was a builder, with his own corporation, and he contributed greatly to the advancement of coal mining technology in Canada.

Nova Scotia. Has a long history of coal mining there.
Born in mining town. Went to school at Mt. Allison in NB.
Began mining in 1936-- in 1950s was owner and operator.

Then did some more work. Owned mines that worked well.
He's a coal guy for NS.

Neil Campbell

1914--1978

"Neil Campbell's abilities at geological deduction were responsible for several important mineral discoveries, but it is the Pine Point mine on the south shore of Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories with which he was most closely associated."

1940 Pine Point-- collaboration between govt. and private enterprise.
Made new railway line to NWT. big role in create northern wealth.
Benefits from the mine that cannot be quantified include demonstrating that a large open pit mining operation can be established successfully in the north.

Right. So.
Began in Medicine Hat, AB. Went to U of A for mining eng.
Went to work at Gold mine in U of T.
Mapping--determined where a fault was--and found more work.

1940. Examined--small lead/zinc occurance at Pine Point--
then developed new theory on it-- huge amounts there.
Convinced employer that there was Ore there.
Lead to finding new ore bodies, and created community there.

1956-- Copper mine NB
60s; Vade Potash in Saskatchewan.
and a mine in Missouri.

Côme Carbonneau

1923--2000
worked in academic; private sector, and public, when he built
and developed a state owned company called SOQUEM in Quebec.
Lead to 5 huge mineral deposits, minimal discovery costs;
and the Doyon mine became one of Canada's biggest gold mines.

Born in Saint-Foy Quebec.
Laval. 1943bs--1948 Bsc. and went on to do PhD at McGill in Geology.
Became Geology professore at Ecole Polytechnique and U of Mtl.

worked in private sector.

then SOQUEM. President.
On the technical side, SOQUEM exploration teams control developed an inexpensive airborne radiometric and spectrometric survey system that was flown in light aircraft. This led to three niobium discoveries.

worked in private sector again--1981--1986
as pres of Falconbridge Copper.
found 3 deposits.
base metal; gold; zinc.

Returned to Academia.

Charlie Tagish.

Though controversy still exists as to who made the discovery, it is agreed that four men sparked the stampede: George Carmack, the son of an American forty-niner; his Tagish Indian partners, Skookum Jim Mason and Tagish Charlie; and prospector Robert Henderson of Nova Scotia.

George Carmack (1850-1922),

The Klondike guys: We've seen them before too.
They need more research.

In the summer of 1896, Carmack and his native partners were at a fish camp at the junction of the Yukon and Klondike rivers. None could imagine that events to follow would transform their tranquil wilderness into a booming city of 30,000 in just two years.

During a visit to the camp, Henderson told Carmack of some promising "colors" he had found while panning in Gold Bottom Creek. Carmack asked if he could stake claims nearby, as was the custom. Henderson replied that Carmack was welcome, but that his Indian friends were not.

The Cobalt Discoverers

James H. McKinley -- Ernest J. Darragh -- Alfred "Fred" LaRose – Tom Hebert
you know these guys. 1903.

Frederick M. Connell

1883--1980

Got Inco medal in 1973:
"In recognition of the leading part he has played as a mine-finder and mine-maker, placing his name in the foremost rank of those whose names and accomplishments will always be associated with laying broad and firm foundations to one of Canada's greatest industries."

Worked on a number of famous mines. Let me tell you about them.
And then...

Spencerville Ontario--1906-- graduate from Queen's in Mining Eng.
Worked in Silver exploration in Cobalt;
Porcupine and Kirkland Lake gold rushes.

1920--1929; opened a number of mines Waite Amulet Mines; Central Patricia Gold Mines.

1938 formed the Conwest Exploration group; became all of Connell Mining.
Connell's Conwest.

1945-- teamed with Frobisher-- to make Keno Hill Mining to deal with Silver in the Yukon.
United Keno became largest single producer of silver in Canada.

1950-- took over claim Northern Bc.
Became an asbestos mine.

Oh yeah, and the OBE.

John Convey

1910--2006
A metallurgist. Scientist.
Advised groups--the Canadian Mines Branch--
and advised the Royal Canadian Mint and Canadian Welding Devlpmnt Inst.

England-- 1929--came to alberta--
U of Alberta; PhD Atomic Physics in 1940;
In Royal Canadian Navy; Helped "de-fang" magnetic mines.
WAR effort-- got recognized for his metallurgical contributions;
and screening captured German scientists for nuclear knowledge.

Prof at U of T. Physics.
Became chief metallurgist for Canadian Mines Branch.
Helped convince Gvt. to stay on top of mining.
Helped the mint when it went to metal alloys.

Marsh A. Cooper

1912-- Alive?

Falconbridge guy. Executive I think.

1935--U of T-- harvard RCAF-- war-- consultant.

Became President of McIntyre Porcupine Mines.
worked on low-grade copper zone that extended the life of Timmins mine for years.

1968-- became president of Falconbridge.
Worked on the Dominican republic holdings.
Became big nickel plant.

1978-- Sudbury plant.

George B. Cross

1932--Alive.

Newspaper. A reporter. An independent authoritative mining news guy
the "George Cross News Letter Ltd."

Began in 1947 by his father (George C)
George B joined in 1952.
Became publisher in 1966.

He was also the principle writer and researcher and came to personify its motto of “Reliable Reporting” for the benefit of subscribers all over the world

More. Would recognize places. confirm technical details first hand.
The paper ran from 1947--2000 -- 50 + years of service to mining.

Donated his paper archives to UBC.
It's being digitized there.
But where is he based?

Walter Curlook

1929--Alive

Helped shape the world's largest nickel producer. INCO.

born in Ontario. Near Sudbury. Began work at INCO part-time while in highschool.
Did PhD in Metallurgy.

Returned to INCO. Researcher.
1989-- became a director at INCO.
then became commissioner of INCO in Indonesia.
retired--and still president of an INCO company in South Pacific.

Scientific discoveries.
For both refining. And for environment--lower the waste.

Leader in r/D in Thompson MB and Sudbury.

What's this?
He helped create Continuous Mining Systems (CMS), which built innovative mining equipment to improve Inco's productivity. CMS, now an independent firm, has more than 250 employees and annual sales of $50 million.

Alexander Stewart Dadson

1906--1968

An explorer of Yellowknife, who figured out the geology--and found the mineral zones--
and the biggest gold mine in the NWT.
"The Giant Mine" was around-- has been producing for 50 years in 1998.

Right. So he was a geologist.
Lead Lake Dufault Mines to discoveries in the Noranda region
(polymetalic-- copper-zinc-silver-gold) nice.

Mostly worked for Thayer Lindsley's Ventures ld.
Many degrees at U of T.

Started working Frobisher Exploration (TL)
up in Giant Yellowknife Gold Mines.
test it. Found gold there. drilled it up. Did up Giant mine.

Chief Geologist of Ventures.
Many properties after that.

Ernest J. Darragh

Another Cobalt discoverer.
He was in the bush.
James H. McKinley and Ernest J. Darragh were contractors providing lumber for a railway being pushed north through the thick Ontario bush. On August 7. 1903 the two partners were walking the right of way scouting for trees suitable for railway ties....
etc;.

C. Stanley Davidson

1900--1967

Stanley Davidson-- geophysical techniques applied to mining. He was big on this.
He was an inventor. Pushed the EM devices: Airborne Magnetometers.
at Falconbridge.

Geophysics: Magnets and that sort of thing--electrical fields.
Different from geology.

1900. Montreal-- PhD Harvard. Science.

1923 -- Started as surveyor/engineer for Mond Nickel.

1927--32: Mexico--experimented with geophysics.

1932---Went to Inco and Sudbury. Then moved over with TL to Falconbridge.

Inventor:
"It was in the early 1940s that he and a Falconbridge mine electrician built an electromagnetic device based on a description in a McGill University textbook. It successfully distinguished between magnetic anomalies from disseminated magnetite and anomalies from conductive sulphides. This resulted in the discovery of several Sudbury-area orebodies. He further refined this apparatus while consulting with Sherritt Gordon. This device aided in the discovery of the Lynn Lake deposits and later was used extensively by Sherritt."

Sherritt Gordon. Started with EM. then Airborne EM.
Is that the same as a magnetometer? In any case this was the FIRST airborne EM.

Used to discover Heath Steele Copper-lead-zinc in NB
and Thompson nickel in MB.

Nathanael V. Davis

1915--2005
Nathanial Davis was the Alcan guy.
Man of principles: His principles, unwritten at first, were incorporated into a formal manifesto in 1978, representing one of the earliest forerunners to present-day corporate codes of conduct.

Right. American, Pittsburg.
Went to Harvard; LSE;
1939 he joined Alcan--worked on War time shipments of Aluminum to American buyers.
Was an officer in the US Navy in the Pacific.

1947-- succeeded his father as president of Alcan. Ah. So. That's something there.
Increased demand for Aluminum.

1950 Made giant smelter in NW BC.
Kitimat Kemano project.
More on it Here:



Modernized Alcan's smelter in QC.
upped production.

Made it huge.
Got the Bauxite out of Jamaica. And other countries.
Made lots of money.

Philanthropist Alcan. lots of places.

Dr. Duncan R. Derry

1906-1987
Economic Geologist.
In Canada--and around the world.
Like, seriously, an award winning geologist. Scientist.

Born in England--Cambridge--then PhD at U of T.
1935-- Joined Thayer Lindsey of Ventures Ltd.
Worked closely with him--
then WWII.

Back at Ventures-- supervised mining and exploration in Canada and global.
Malartic; Matachewan; Opemiska Copper; etc; did well.

1954 moved to Rio Tinto as President of Rio Tinto exploration:
Lead to development of Uranium mines in Elliot Lake, On.

1960-- consulting firm. Did well.

Book: "World Atlas of Geological and Mineral deposits."

Randolph W. Diamond

1891--1978
Ah... a Cominco man. Here we go.
Turned BC's Sullivan mine into one of most productive--made Cominco what it is.

Developed new techniques of ore recovery.
Mineral recovery. See. It's something there.
"1917-1920, Diamond led a five-man research team that developed a new process for ore separation known as differential froth flotation. Today a standard method of ore recovery, this was a radical departure at the time. Not only did it unlock the treasures of the Sullivan's zinc-lead-iron sulphide ore, it also ensured the future of Cominco Ltd."
Right. Not bad. So Cominco grew.
BUT major air pollution problem:
His solution was construction of a chemical fertilizer complex at Trail to convert the sulphur-dioxide pollutant into a saleable product. The plant began production in 1931 and represented one of the earliest and most effective methods of industrial pollution control.

OK. Born in Toronto. Mining and Metallurgy at U of T.
Went to America to work for mining company in Anaconda. Copper.

Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada (pre Cominco) offered him a job.
He came in and solved their floatation/recovery problem.
Retired as Exec VP.

A.O. Dufresne

1890--1989
Quebec mining man-- 45 year career to Quebec Dept. of Mines.
Helped support mining development in the province.
When he began in 1914, only 7 people in dept--when he retired in 1960-- more than 500

Right. Began in Montreal.
Worked in the Bush. Career geologist. Map making. McGill.
Field work; bush life; mining camps.

1914--graduated; joined the Quebec bureau of mine--appointed
1927 director of the bureau. Kept going. Became Dept. of Mines; he was the Deputy minister.
Mapping.

In 1936, through the acquisition by his department of Gale Gold Mines in the Val d'Or area, he created the Quebec Mining School. To promote prospecting for mineral deposits in Quebec,

Made the Quebec Mining School.
at Laval University (Quebec City)
Established lots of education programs.
trained quebec's new miners.

Georges H. Dumont

1911--1999.

Mining engineer and geologist. Pioneer of Quebec industry.
Made many discoveries.
Born in Quebec--became engineer.
Six brothers also became engineers--recognized.

1937 Discovered gold mine in Adlemont.
1938-- Monique gold deposit.

1942-- Lithium deposit--lead to Quebec Lithium mine.

Louviscourt Goldfields.
1965-- the East Sullivan deposit--largest copper-zinc of the Abitibi
Man, he just kept discovering mines...

In the Sixties still:
1960... Molybdenum and Bismuth, Chesbar Iron Mine, Quebec Explorer Gold;
More lithium; nickel; Huge deposits.... just kept going...

Quote:
Today, Dumont takes a keen interest in lithium, which he calls "the metal of the future". As president of Wrightbar Mines, he launched an initiative to make the company a lithium producer.

Richard J. Ennis

1911...
"Dick Ennis was among a select number of larger-than-life personalities that appeared in the early days of the twentieth century when an explosion of mineral discoveries launched Canadian mining on a wave of unprecedented growth."
Mostly a mine manager--38 years on the same mine.

No kidding. Where did these guys come from? It's like an excess of
personality and ambition drove them. How did that happen?
What made them reach for more than other men; Live larger lives?
Why was it all guys? What's the deal there? Are we so much
less ambitious? anyway...

American--Aspen Colorado-- came in 1911 to build and manage
the mill at the McIntyre gold at Porcupine camp.
Stayed with Mcintyre for 40 years. Working it.
did well. Kept it safe.
Worked on health problems of miners. That's a big deal.
That's not bad. Anecdote here about that.


Not much details on his life here though.

Joseph Errington

1871--1942
The spirit of mining:
"Joseph Errington embodied the spirit of mining prior to the Second World War as the country pulled itself out of the depths of the Depression in the 1930s and mining became a prime force in creating a prosperous and bustling postwar Canada."

Okay. So... what's that mean?
1899 opened the Massey mine for a New York company.
Was mayor of Massey Ontario for 6 years. He's a miner. Not a geologist.

1926-- teamed up with Thayer Lindsey (Ventures/Falconbridge man)
on a Sudbury project. Fell through. helped develop Falconbridge Nickel in 1928.

1933. Little Long Lac mine. Gold. He was president. Became Lac Minerals.
Also did more gold mines.

Steep Rock Mine. Another property.
Big engineering feat-- and an important resource for WWII.
Iron ore.

worked with the big minefinders: Thayer Lindsley; Jules timmins; John Hammell.

Horace John Fraser

1905--1969.
Executive--
oversaw the merge of Ventures Ltd-- to Falconbridge Nickel--
into Falconbridge Ltd.
Helped it become the 2nd biggest nickel in the world.

Standard history-- Manitoba-- chemistry.
Harvard economic geology. PhD.

Worked for INCO.
1935-- Moved to California as professor at California Institute for Technology.
WWII--worked for US govt. on metal research.

After war-- Joined Ventures. (the company formed by Thayer Lindsey in the 1910s? 20s?)
Became Manager there.
1958 Became president of Ventures.
Then the companies merged.

Made nickel mine in Dominican Republic.
This was a a big deal. Still rich.

Neil Hilton George

1908--1988

Safety-man!
Quebec Mining Associations-- first director of safety.
Changed mine accident prevention--
Worked on awareness. common sense.

"George's accomplishments cannot be measured by the quantity of metals produced or by companies' financial performance. His legacy is a better life for those who work in mines each day"

Born in Winnipeg. Went to U of MB.
Worked for INCO.
Miner--foreman-engineer.
Safety supervision techniques. Came up with a system.

Richard Geren

1917--Alive?

Geologist/prospector: discovered high-grade iron ore in Knob Lake of NE Quebec.
It's importance led to the creation of IOC.
Schefferville. He was the manager-- at IOC: Yet his typical self-effacing style, he credited the team of "young, ambitious, hard-working and non-complaining people" for success in achieving IOC's target of "iron ore by '54."

Right, so, here we go. American. Ohio.
Came to mining in 1935 after meeting miners in N. Ontario.
learned Geology-- and went to the Timmins camp.
Served with RCAF in WWII.

After the War-- no minerals in the US-- so the search was on.
Supervising geologist of the search for IOC.
how can they say this without talking about Jules Timmins?
Became the manager.

James Edward Gill

1901--1980

Jim Gill. Scientist/teacher. Discover/developer.
A Professor. Education.

Created M.Sc applied in Mineral Exploration.
And analytical lab of Geochemistry in mineral exploration at McGill University. Montreal

Teacher.


In 1929-- discovered high-grade iron ore for Labrador/Quebec.
Helped open up the exploration.

Gold in NW Quebec.

In WWII--worked on Chromite for war production.

Born in BC.

James Roycroft Gordon

1898--1980
Inco man-- first Canadian born president.
Scientist and executive.
developed technique--metallurgical breakthrough to capture
more minerals--less waste from Nickel ore.

Born in Kingston. Queens. Cemistry.
Was in WWI. Artillery.

First job was working on ores in Cobalt ontario.
Worked on many science experiments for metal.

1936 INCO hired him at Copper Cliff.
1940--made management.
1960-- Pres of INCO

Bruce J. Grierson

1939--Alive

Worked for Rio-Tinto Iron and Titanium.
And a Quebec group too.

Metallurgical engineer. business man.


A lot of stuff here about smelting processes.
Stared to work in 1961 for QIT. Sorel.
Became president.
Richard's Bay.
Procesing

Arthur Thomas Griffis

1912-1982
Geologist. Discovered iron for the Iron Ore Company of Canada.
Copper for Mcyntire. Found mines.

Went to U of T. Did Geology degrees. PhD at Cornell.
Joined Hollinger in 1939
Sent to remap the geology of Porcupine.

1944-- sent out to investigate Labrador and Queebc, for formation of I O C.
Found Iron.
Found more Iron in Quebec's Ungava region.
1958. Joined Mc Intyre Porcupine. found gold.

1962 Started consulting firm--did lots of work internationally--australia, saudi arabia.
Zinc in Baffin Island.

Did some work in Timmins.

Oliver Hall

1879--1954
A Noranda man. Came right at the beginning.
Helped make it grow through 30's and 40's.
Worked on the Horne mine--that first formed Noranda.
Worked on new safety techniques when blasting.

HIS recommendation to go with Gaspe Copper, QC.
That's a place. Built the mill and smelter-- early 1950s
and it's still a big place now.

McGill--Masters in mining.

Began at the Mond Nickel Company. Became a manager;
and the superintendent of their mines.
1929-- He was at INCO; when that company got bought out.
Then moved from there to Noranda.

During WWII: chaired mining group to make mining equipment/materials
for War Engineers.

Robert E. Hallbauer

1930--1995
"For almost three decades ­ the 1970s, 1980s and until his death in 1995 ­ Robert Hallbauer was recognized by industry, government and labor as a giant in terms of his presence and influence over the mining industry in British Columbia."
So what does that mean?
A builder. Making mines. Associated with Teck and Cominco.

1930-- born of pioneers in BC interior. Went to UBC for mining engineering.
Began as a miner for Placer. Became manager.
1968-- Teck; VP of mining. Growth.
1975--Daniel's Harbour in Newfoundland zinc mine.
Niobec mine in QUebec.
Saw potential for Afton mine in Kamloops (Copper)

1981 Highmont coppermoylbendum. Highmount. That's a big place man.
That's important. The Highland VAlley Copper: Still today the largest copper etc; in the world.

Worked on
85 David Bell gold mine in Hemlo, Ontario.

Worked for TECK-- made it big.
Worked for COMINCO -- when TECK took it over from its debts and helped rebuild it.
Then some gold in the Yukon. go!

John E. Hammell

1876--1958
An explorer-- pushed the use of Airplanes to explore the north.
"It was Hammell's ambition to "crack open the north," and he did that through his pioneering use of aircraft to move men and materials to areas previously accessible only by dogsled in winter or canoe in summer."

In 20's he formed NAME: Northern Aerial Minerals Exploration.
Made a fleet of aircraft, that pushed the frontier back. Many planes.
Out of this company were the "predesccor companies" of today's airlines.

1915: Backed prospectors on Manitoba Lake: Flin Flon!
Backing them; lead to being one of Canada's biggest: Zinc and Copper ore.

1925. Red Lake. Got use of aircraft to work on a gold discovery there.
Airlifting worked to get the mining property viable for exploration.

Born in Ontario. Was a professional Boxer. Newspaper reproter.
Was a financier. Made mines.
Did well.

James Merritt Harrison

1915--1980
GSC man. Came after Sir William Logan. Was there for 17 years.
Became the director of it in 1956-- when it was working on mapping.
Did many challenges then--post war years; the arctic; new sciences.

Began in Regina-- U of MB; then Queen's for PhD Geology.
Began as a field researcher for GSC on the Canadian Shield
GSC grew when he became the director.
Commissioned new tech means: "Some examples are the commissioning of airborne magnetic and radiometric surveys and ground geochemical surveys."

1973-- Joined the UNESCO Paris as assistant Director of Science and Technology.
Worked as consultant. lots of science.

Gerald G. Hatch

1922--Alive

Metallurgist/engineer--consultant. Came up with many processes.

Born Brockville--went to McGill U for Metallurgical engineering.
Didn't serve in WWII. Instead. Went to study-- MIT.
Developed new processes. Ductile Titanium.
Sounds good. Worked at a smelter in Quebec, Quebec Iron and Titanium.
Turned it into an operation in SOREL with QIT.

Left to start engineering R/D firm.
Hatch Associates. It grew huge.
Based in Toronto.

Tom Hebert

Another of the Cobalt discoverers.
He found the big one:
"Tom Hebert, a French-Canadian working on the railroad, prevailed on the geologist to examine a vein Hebert had found in the face of a cliff Miller reported:..."silver was lying in profusion at the base of the cliff." Hebert's discovery became the richest silver mine in the Cobalt camp and one of the most productive in the world. Affectionately labeled as "Big Nip," this mine yielded more than 91 million ounces of silver over 40 years of production."

Prof. Herbert Haultain

1869--1962

ENGINEER! He came up with the ritual for which engineers are sworn in.
1922. The oath and the creed: The Rudyard Kipling poem.
That's wicked. The ritual calling of the Engineer, or Kipling ritual.

He was a professor. An inventor.
Made new techniques to get small materials when panning.
"The Superpanner and Infrasizer, for sizing in the sub-sieve materials of extremely small size."

born in England--studied in england and Germany.
Worked at a tin mine in Bohemia in 1889. WOW that's old.
Worked all over.

in 1908 became a Prof of Mining Engineering at U of T.
A good teacher.

Robert Henderson (1857-1933)

Henderson is another guy from the Klondike story.
He's the guy who didn't like the indians.

Joseph H. Hirshhorn

1900--1981
Good quote:
He was an unabashed promoter and entrepreneur who announced his arrival with a full­page advertisement in The Northern Miner, entitled "My Name is Opportunity and I Am Paging Canada."

Born in Latvia. Raised in Brooklyn. Ah, like that comics generation.
Sold newspapers. Jewish? Went to Wall Street. Made a fortune.
Got interested in Canadian Gold.

Met some prospectors. Made some money off Gold.
Did financing for a Kirkland Lake gold mine.
Did financing for Doug Wright Dome mine in Porcupine.

Big deal? Did the money for the Blind River Uranium of Elliot Lake.
1949-- teamed up with Franc Joubin to explore it.
Got some Uranium in Saskatchewan near Athabaska.
Then a Gold mine called the La Ronge Copper Gold.
But main deal was the Blind River Uranium-- financing what would be 8 uraniums.
Lots of money--> economists guess he added 30 BILLION to Canada.
Nice.

Donald MacDonald Hogarth

1878--195-
Deadwood. War guy.
WWI. went from enlisted to Brigadier General.

Worked on resources of the North.
Became a politician too-- for Port Arthur in Ontario.
Helped found Ventures organziation with LIndsey, MacAlpine and Errington.
Financier and director of it.
Led to a number of Ontario gold mines.

Big deal was Steep Rock. A big mine.
Got the money for it. An essential War time industry.
And got support from govt to make it viable.

Quotations: "Right from his first involvement with Steep Rock, Hogarth was the dominant personality in the project," wrote Bruce Taylor in his book Steep Rock: The Men and the Mines. "In spite of being in poor health in his later years, he was the driving force behind the Steep Rock project, and even at times from a hospital bed he dealt stubbornly and successfully with problem after problem. He took considerable pride in the Steep Rock development, considering it his most memorable achievement, perhaps because he had been told that it could not be done. `The greatest day of my life,' he said, `was the day the first shipment of ore from the Errington open pit started down the track to the ore docks.'"

Walter Holyk

1921--2004
Geologist. Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide deposits (VMS again) techniques.
His theories proved in field found big deposits.

Born in BC. Went to UBC. PhD. WWII. RCAF. (Acronymic)

1950. joined Texas Gulf Sulphur as geologist.
Started exploration at NB.
Began in Bathurst.
Half Mile Lake deposit in NB.
Staked claimes. Found a zinc-lead deposit.

Read GSC report on Baffin Island: so they took it north.
Went up and found what is now Nanisivik zinc lead mine.

Kidd Creek deposit. Another one in Canadian Shield.
Ontario.

Edmund Horne

1865--1952
Prospector -- began looking for gold in Ontario--decided to take it to Quebec;
ended up finding a big deposit, the Horne Copper and gold which began Noranda.

Born in NS.
Miner and prospector of old.
Worked at Oldham Gold in NS.

Went from Colarado to BC to California. Real Deadwood territoriy.
Heard of silver in Ontario at Cobalt in 1908 and went there.

1911 entered Quebec border; found favorable geology near Rouyn.
1914-- he returned there. found great samples on what is now Noranda.
Anecdote: Unfortunately, the samples showed no gold, and so bitter was Horne's disappointment that he decided he was "all washed up on golden dreams."

1917-- Went to Ontario gold camps, and raised $.
Returned to his Lake, this time determined. again disappointing.
1920: returned. canoed. found good results. new money.
Found backers, and then took it big.

"It turned out to be one of Canada's greatest orebodies, "the Horne", and Noranda was born in 1922. Today, Noranda employs more than 32,000 people, and has assets of $11.8 billion."

H.H. "Spud" Huestis

1907--1979 = Spud?!?!?
BC miner-- came from Highland Womb Valley-- Copper deposits in BC interior --
NE of Vancouver.

1960s.... production began at Bethlehem Copper location.
Lead to the Highland Valley partnership.
Cominco got in on that to. Huge copper operations.
"Today the largest-tonnage mining operation in Canada, and one of the largest earth-moving operations on the face of the globe."

Born in Fredericton NB.
Moved to Wisconsin.
Began prospecting.
19---moved to BC to explore.
Kept prospecting all over. NWT. BC. Ontario. Global.
Kept watch watch on Highland Valley.

Other BC mining stuff as well.

Richard W. Hutchinson

1928--Alive
Economic geologist. (what is that?)

"He has presented geology with a strong economic focus, and encouraged industry to embrace new ideas and theories."

Science degrees/from UWestern/and Wisconsin.
Industry--then 3 decades as academic.
at Western and the Colorado school of mines.

Techniques: models of VMS. which helps exploration study.
Helps recognize where a gold deposit.
in Quebec. NWT. Hemlo.

he's a scholar. A Scientist. a geologist.

Explorer:
"In the field, he contributed to a series of diverse discoveries ranging from base metals in New Brunswick to potash in Saskatchewan and rare-earth deposits in Manitoba and Mozambique"

Robert John Isaacs

1905--1997 East Coast!

New Brunswick discovery-- lead-zinc deposit--
became Brunswick mining and smelting/ later Noranda.
Mining \Engineer/financing. Nfld.

Born Thornbury. On. bgan prospecting.
went for mining engineering at u of t.
1931. joined prospecting company.

Teamed up with James Boylen. Partnership. for 25 years.
He was the engineer manager-- Boylen was the financier promoter.

1952. Brunswick story. Heard about the lead/zinc.
In the Bathurst area. Developed the area.
Began mine in Bathurst. Big contracts. Got noticed.
Worked in NF.d. Did a copper mine too.
And in Quebec a zinc silver.

William Fleming James

1894-1991
Geologist. Applied Sciences. Had a post named after him at St. Francis Xavier U.
Antiogonish, Nova Scotia. Nice.
Integrity. Mmn-hmmn.

Went to St. Francis X. Mc.Gill. Princeton: Geology.
Worked for the GSC.

1929 Became consulting geologist. Formed own firm with other partners.

Economic geology. What's that?
Feasibility studies.

Not much here.
Gold-- to uranium.

William James

1929-- Alive.
Known best as the mining industry’s “turnaround man,” William (Bill) James has used his skills as a geologist, miner...to make mining money.
Made money for Falconbridge when losing in 80s.
Made best deal when it was bought out by Noranda.

Ottawa. Ontario. U of T. Went to school. PhD mcGill. Arts degrees.
Worked for consulting firms-- and Noranda mines.

Joined Falconbridge in early 80s. it was losing millions.
He made it work. Wow. A stock Market hero.

Worked for Denison Mines in 90s.
Kept it working.
Went to a new place. Inmet Mining. kept that working to.
Etc;

Franc R. Joubin

1911--1997
Canadian mine-finder. Like Gilbert LaBine. Worked on Uranium.
I think I knew that. He's got a name that's famous.

Found the "Blind River" area field in Northern ontario.
Uranium miners of Denison Mines
and Rio Algom at Elliot Lake.

UBC. Began at Pioneer Gold mines in BC.
Loved prospecting. Geology.
Geiger Counter! (I think we can get this geiger counter. It's at Elliot Lake)
Details of these events are chronicled in Joubin's memoirs, Not For Gold Alone.
He has more than that at the Elliot Lake mining museum.
how about that?
Mad anecdotes--it's a history of discovery.

Teamed up with Joe Hirschhorn.
Found Uranium after a hard road.
Made 9 mines from one find.

Robert J. Jowsey

1881--1965
"The Dean of Canadian mining"
a true "dog-team and canoe" prospector. I like that.
Worked through several different mining eras.
Many links to other Mining Hall of Fame figures.

Went to elementary school. Self-taught prospector.
Worked for Noah Timmins and found the Kirkland Lake orebody Gold.

WWI. Then went to Manitoba.
Teamed up with Thayer Lindsley. ---took over prospect of Sherritt Gordon gold mine.

Big deal was "God's Lake" development. Anecdote.
Far from Winnipeg. Self -financed.

WWII: War: Magnesium was in short supply.
Technique: learned Lloyd Pidgeon's dolomite/magnesium recovery tech.
Found near Ottawa.

PDAC. 3rd president.

Norman Bell Keevil Sr.

1910--1989. THE TECK FATHER
Norman Keevil.
Born in Saskatchewan--went to U of Sask until 30's... Geology?

Worked for GSC, mapping Prairies and NWT.
Went to Harvard for PhD in Geophysics. And MIT. Taught Geophysics at U of T.

Left Academia to start own company: Mining Geophysics Corporation. Consultatns.
For Dominion Gulf company, his group was one of the first to start investigating
magnetometers for mining. Sub finders. Good stories about this.
First find was in Lake temagami region.
Went out there and found copper.
Discovered that airborne Magnetometry worked/and Temagami became Teck.

1963--1981 chairman of the board.
President. Executive. Sucked up othe rcopmanies.
Genius scientist. knew what properties to invest in. Sound financial sense.

in 70s got big mine-- David Bell Mine in Hemlo.

Nice story here: "A modest man, he was, nonetheless, visibly delighted with one achievement: a goal he scored for Teck in the annual hockey game at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto against the best team that could be mustered by the Prospectors and Developers Association. He was 78 at the time."

Keevils Continued

From the Globe and Mail:
"The son of a mining promoter famous for placing big bets on long shot mining plays, Keevil, 68, has carved out his own reputation as a risk taker since he joined the family controlled Teck Corp. in 1963.

In the mid 1980s, Keevil moved Teck into the big leagues by acquiring a stake in Cominco but it took years to dig Teck Cominco out of heavy debts stemming from the acquisition.

Keevil bet again in 1995 by buying a 10 per cent stake in the Voisey's Bay nickel discovery with almost no advance investigation of the remote ore body.

Keevil's gutsy investment forced Inco to pay more than it had planned for its initial stake in Voisey's Bay. He raised the stake for Inco again when Teck Cominco announced a $17.8-billion bid to buy Inco. Market watchers were quick to dismiss the bid because of its low premium and a refusal by the Keevil family to eliminate the dual class share structure that allows them to keep control of the company.

Observers have speculated that Teck Cominco's real objective is to link up with one of the bidders to gain control of the far flung mining assets owned by Inco or Falconbridge."

Dr. Norman B. Keevil JR.

1938--Alive.
a TECK guy. So. We'll be dealing with him.
and his father was the other Teck guy. ALSO named Norman B Keevil.
Strange.

Get Ready:
"Teck Corporation started life with a few small gold mines in Ontario and Quebec. Thirty years ago its revenues were $11 million, mainly from oil, and its assets amounted to $48 million.
After a number of amalgamations, a move to Vancouver from Toronto, a merger and a name change, Teck Cominco today is a diversified mining and refining company. It mines gold, base metals and coal in Canada, the U.S. and Peru, and refines metals in Canada and Peru. It is the world’s largest zinc miner. In 2002 its revenues were over $2 billion, and its assets were valued at over $5 billion."

Whoa. 5 billion in assets. They eat you for breakfast.

Keevil is... what's his role.
Began in Cambridge... dad as at Harvard. Got a PhD in Geology.
Joined Teck in 62-- became president in 1981. then CEO. then non-exec Chairman. what's that mean?

One of the chairmans of MAC.

Worked on early Teck deals. North east BC coal. Hemlo gold. Voisey's Bay.
Bought out Cominco in 86 with partners. in 2001. bought it 100%.
Not many details here of what this guy actually did though. more a corporate history.

Supports research at UBC, U of T and other places.
etc.

"As Chairman of MAC he also made a significant contribution to the development of MAC’s Environmental Policy." Well. That's something. Seems like an interesting character.

Roland Kenneth Kilborn

1902--1959.

Civil Engineer. Kilborn Engineering. A builder.
Born in China--came to Canada. Queen's for engineering.

Did mining in Northern Ontario. Formed mining engineering company.

1950s' worked on Uranium boom. -- supplying services.

Worked on Largest open pit coal mine--in BC. Asbestos plants.
Built more than 60% of Canada's potash refinery in NB and Sask.
Gold mines in North America--- Hemlo and Goldstrike in Nevada. and Quebec.
Worked at extracting the gold.
Many mines more.

Michael J. Knuckey

1936--Alive
Found 10 deposits--2 world class. 8 mines.
Raglan project in northern Quebec-- supported project that came up with agreement with Aboriginal people-- considered one of the best. Includes jobs and business opportunities.
Also pushed new discovery techniques.

Born in England. Came in 57.
Worked in NB. Elliot Lake. Ontario. Quebec.
Quebec at the Coniagas mine.
Then Falconbridge--chief Geologist at a Nicaragua mine.

Went back to Falconbridge in Timmins-- in 70s--
joined the Falconbridge Copper company, and headed up exploration as VP.
Noranda/Falconbridge came close. Again VP.

Discovery of "Elephant" proportions. Is that an industry term.

"Lithogeochemistry and borehole geophysics EM studies produced the Ansil discovery – a mile below surface -- and Winston Lake. MegaTM airborne and 3D seismic surveys helped to locate the Perseverence, Quebec, and Half Mile Deep, New Brunswick, discoveries."

Albert A. Koffman

1910--1983
Ah. NEW discovery technique. That's good.
I like that. Found 13 base metal mines in Manitoba through it. That's okay.
"saturation prospecting," now in use around the world as standard operating procedure. Essentially, the method involves conducting an airborne electromagnetic survey followed by surface geophysical surveys and saturation drilling of most of the anomalies detected.

Born in Mantioba.
Did degrees in Geology.
Worked in the Flin Flon mine.
Worked for Hudson Bay mining in Flin Flon
as sampler and geologist for 30 years. Whoa.
Found many deposits-- saturation geophysics.
Went to work for Norana Mines.
Then worked for MAnitoba.

John Kostuik

1911--2005
"John Kostuik exemplified the rough and ready ways of the hard-rock miner" oh ok.
He was a miner, who figured out how to do lowcost mining in the 30s.
Came from Poland with parents.
Went to Queen's for mining engineering.

Grew up in Cobalt, Onatrio. Mine Superintendent at Howey Gold.
Did lots of work. At the Malartic operation.
Went to Abitibi. Went to French Moraroroco.

1955-- Kostuik-- worked for Stephen Roman as the Denison mine manager.
1969 became president of Denison. Yep.

ALAN KULAN

1921--1977.

Prospector/Entrepreneur. big fidns were lead-zinc-silver in the Yukon--the Faro deposit.
He's a big Yukon booster too.

Born in Toronto--went around Manitoba-- went to WWII. Drove tanks.
"Vowed he'd never work for others again" Good for him. So he went prospecting in Yukon.

1953. Found a good find at Ross River. Learned a lot about prospecting. Self-taught I think.
Built Ross River as an office HQ. Aboriginal people hired them/taught them prospecting.

1964. helped form Dynasty Exploration for Vangorda area.
Not easy. Made partnership.
Then found Faro Deposit.

Kept running companies etc;

1970-- Foudn Lazulite. Great mineral species.
great specimens and species.

Gilbert A. LaBine

1890--1977 "Mr. Uranium."
Anecdote here, but it's not a good one...
1930: Discovered the pitchblende at Great Bear Lake, NWT
(this is a location we're likely going to use.)
There-- yielded Uranium and Radium.

Self-taught. Found Eldorado Uranium at Great Bear.

1890. Born in Pembroke--began in the silver fields of Cobalt--
and then did some staking at Porcupine and Kirkland Lake.
Prospected with Hollinger, and Harry Oakes.

Went to Manitoba-- no luck for gold there.
He and brother formed company--Eldorado Gold Mines. again no luck.
But gave funds to explore Great Bear Lake and the Uranium.

Well, this is as good as it gets. It's THAT uranium. The uh, one with
uh, THAT history. Ahem.
"The Eldorado radium/uranium ore was so rich that it broke a stranglehold on radium then held by Belgium. But with a saturated market and stockpiles building, production at Eldorado was suspended until the advent of World War II and the sudden urgent demand for uranium - uranium used to produce the first atomic bomb, the bomb that at Nagasaki and Hiroshima ended the most devastating war in history."

Govt. took over Eldorado.

1934-- also did some gold in Manitoba--and that worked ok.
Gunnar Gold. then post War-- found large Uranium in Saskatchewan.

Called "Mr. Uranium."
FOR MORE Check this out on Eldorado.

Thayer Lindsley

1882--1976
This is a high praise.
"Thayer Lindsley, the father of such mining giants as Falconbridge Ltd., Ventures Ltd. and Frobisher, has been described as the greatest mine finder of all time."
Founded Falconbridge. And many more.

Born in Japan. Dad was an exec for CP railway but an American.
Went back to US-- engineering at Harvard. then moved to Canada.
1924 Staked claim of Iron in Oregon.

1928 Founded Ventures Ltd-- a holding company. Falconbridge Nickel was a Ventures subsidiary.
1928 Sherritt Gordon Mines also came out--partnership between Lindsley and Jowsey (another inductee).

Was president of both Ventures and Falconbridge until 1956. Long term you know.
1962--Ventures was absorbed by Falconbridge--but he stayed on longer as director emeritus.
So... he was just an executive it seems.

Good quotes from a 1966 book-- is it The Mine Finders?
He published it... did he write it?

Described as a "Geological genius" good pop up quotes.

Sir William Logan

1798--1875
This guy is REALLY Important: Founded the GSC in 1842.
First Canadian Scientific Organization: lead to growth of Canadian economy.
I guess it would. Pushed the principles of mapping for mineral resources.

Should be some good life histories of this guy out there.
Brought Canada's resources to the world. Book:
1863: "Geology of Canada" told the world of the rocks and economic potential.

Born in Montreal--studied in Edinburgh.
Went to Swansea.
No formal education in geology--but interest in mineralogy.
1842-- became provincial geologist for Canada--established GSC.
worked with part-timers who saw importance of the work.

1843--worked in coal fields of NS and NB. This is where to put him.
then began exploring Gaspe, Ottawa, Lake Superior, Eastern townships, North Shore, North of lake huron, gold of Chaudiere, and Southeast Canadian Shield.

Accurate.

Knighted. Order of Honor French.

Egil H. Lorntzsen

1908--1997
Began as a prospector-- at Bridge River Gold in BC during--
but big fine came decades later: copper in BC's Highland Valley. OK.

Born in Norway--seal hunter-- came to Montreal. Went to West in 1932.
In Bridge River--learned prospecting.

WWII--need for Sheelite, a tungsten ore. Foudn a good vein.

Post-War--formed uranium mining syndicate. Did some management. Explored.

1950s-- Staked Highland Valley. He found it in1960s when others said it wasn't there.
Became president of mining company. Did further exploration.
Did a lot more work on the mine. The Lornex deposit. Yeah.
Um. Became a partner with Rio and Teck Cominco.

Dull.

ADOLPHE “LAP” LA PRAIRIE

1893--1976
A legend for EXPLOSIVES and mining. That's amazing.
Set standards that last till today. Concerned mainly with safety. Wow!
anecdote. Video?!??!

Joined CXL-- a blasting company in 1918---based in Timmins for 20 years.
Invented processes for blasting to keep safe.
The air curtain--used to protect underwater structures when blasting.
Made better Dynamite! Polar Forcite.

Did Charitable work-- Anecdote-- the Turkey Stag in Timmins.
Way to go. Did social events. The Oyster Party--part of CIM's calender.
Sounds like an amazing and strange guy.

John C. MacIsaac

1906--1991
"Minefinders get the glory, but it is the minebuilders who get the ore."
Yeah, that's a good rule. This guy is a career miner. And mine builder. That's it.
That's interesting. first I've seen exactly like that. Safety. A big thing.

Borne in Butte--Montana.
1910--moved to Cape Breton--2 years in cobalt--then back to Cape Breton till 18.
1924-- moved to Timmins and began at McIntyre Porcupine (golden city!) as miner helper.
21 years worked for different mining companies (including holinger, faloncbridge etc;)
1947 Began contracting firm--- and worked for 43 years making mines.

Also a steel fabricating plant.
**And horse racing facility in Northern Ontario!

Vladimir Nicolaus Mackiw

1923--2001
Long history here. Essentially he's a Metallurgist.
Scientist. Inventor.

Born in Ukraine. Studied in Germany/Chemistry. Belgim.
Canada in 1948.

Began in Winnipeg as Chemist for gold mine.
Manitoba Bureau of mines.
Ottawa--Sherritt--Gordon Mines.
--went from chemist to exec VP. Wow.
Worked on a wide range of processes.-- expanding science of
refining of nickel, cobalt and other metals.

Worked on materials: has a center named after him in
Fort Saskatchewan Albeta-- many many patents... inventing processes
lots of refining techniques.
Worked on the technique for production of coins-- like the dollar coin! (anecdote I guess?)
good detail.

Viola R. MacMillan

1903-1993
Viola is incredible-- she had "2 careers"
1--as a successful prospector and developer alongside her husband.
2--as a powerhouse behind PDAC--making it from a group of 100 into a vital
organization--national and scope--big yo. Big.

1. So they found lots of minerals.
Ontario--found deposits in Timmins area. Pit Gold. Base metals.
ViolaMac mines--Sandon Area of Bc. silver/lead.
Saskatchewan, Beaverlodge area; Lake Cinch Uranium.

2. Began as secretary of the lobby group--became president before wwII--
and served same roll from that time until 1966. Nice--that's when they'd sing the song.
Involved with the war effort-minerals. Metals Control Commission.
Helped save Gold industry-- with gold measure act. in the 50s and 60s.

Born in Muskoka.
Visited brother in Cobalt silver mine.
"Women were considered unlucky underground and were unwelcome."
married in 1923. Exciting life. There's way more on her.

HAVE TO DO MORE ON HER.

Klondike: Skookum Jim Mason and Company.

George Carmack (1850-1922),
Skookum Jim Mason (died 1916),
Tagish Charlie,
Robert Henderson (1857-1933)

The discovery of placer gold in the Klondike a century ago set off one of the world's greatest gold rushes and forever changed the history of the Yukon Territory and Canada. Though controversy still exists as to who made the discovery, it is agreed that four men sparked the stampede: George Carmack, the son of an American forty-niner; his Tagish Indian partners, Skookum Jim Mason and Tagish Charlie; and prospector Robert Henderson of Nova Scotia.

Right: so it was a gold-rush. And you can't say who made the discovery--but these 4 were there making the stampede. Makes sense. In 1896... This will be a great story. Anecdote!
Was just a junction of rivers, Klondike and Yukon--became a booming city: 30,000 in 2y ears.
wow!

"It's all about the colour..."

"I only care about the colour."

Bonanza creek--but it was found by Carmack, Charlie and Mason-- Henderson was too prejudiced to share. Then they found another one. Eldorado on another branch of hte creek.
This is a big story and we have to include it in the final Hall.

John Williams "Jack" McBean

1913--1973.
geologist and entrepeneur.
worked on 3 gold mines in the Kirkland Lake region.
Worked on exploration in the arctic:
the Zinc/Lead discovery which became the Polaris mine.
Nice.
Lots of accomplishments.

Geology u of T/ Queen's.

WWII military.

1945 First resident geologist for Ontario Department of Mines
Joined Upper Canada Mines as chief Geologist.
found a great vein that kept mining going till 1970 anecdote?

1951-- drilling company in Kirkland Lake
1957 Back to Upper Canada.
In the 1960s started looking into energy resources of the Arctic--
this is when he discovered the lead-zinc on Cornwalis island-- Polaris.
ran out of money--
moved to Cominco to support.
from 1964. but not ready to go yet/ low prices.

1982. Cominco started it up.
Kept looking for oil.

James Gerald McCrea

1898--1953.
Worked for Dome Mines. Made them big.

got Dome's Sigma's mine in NW quebec in early 30s.
credited with creating Dome exploration--which expanded.
died on assignment?

From Ontario--went to Ottawa-- U of T.
Was in WWI as RCAF.
then Queen's 1923 for mining engineering.
Mapped the Red Lake area for Ontario govt. while in school.

Joined Dome. Became President of Dome Exploration Western.

found property near Val D'or. -- Sigma Mines.

1944-- Red Lake: heard about a claim. Investigated.
1945--Exploration was formed.
Bought majority interest in Campbell Red Lake Mine. (the big mine up there).
(George Campbell was an original prospecting mine finder)

1953 While investigating uranium McCraae died on the job. Sask.

James J. McDougall

1925--Alive?
Worked for 50 years. Prospector.
"It is said that his footprints can be found on just about every mineral occurrence in British Columbia, the Yukon and Alaska, where he has found or helped discover more than 16 major mineral deposits."

Born in Grand Forks BC-- family of mining pioneers.
Went to WWII. Came back and did geology at UBC.
Became mining engineer.
Joined the Ventures group-- Thayer Lindsey-- and stayed with it
after it was owned by Falconbridge.

Prospected-- found copper and Iron and gold on the Islands of BC west coast-
(vancouver islanad, queen charlotte, prince rupert)

Anecdote: interesting:
Big dig was
1957 Windy Craggy in Northern BC.
Big discovery.
Found great ore. 50 million spent on development.
but in 1990s development stopped and became a heritage park by UN
Isn't that nice?
But he still gets respect.

James McKinley and the Cobalt Discoverers

Mad Anecdote here: They are the Cobalt Discoverers.
James H. McKinley -- Ernest J. Darragh -- Alfred "Fred" LaRose – Tom Hebert

A bonanza strike. Celebrated 100th anniversary in 2003.
Cobalt called "The Most Historic Town in Ontario"
We HAVE to use Cobalt as one of the sites.
And think about the pictures.

Silver riches: As a source of silver riches, the Cobalt area led the world in yielding a phenomenal 460 million ounces. That is about US$2 billion worth of silver at today's prices. In Cobalt's peak year, 1911, 34 mines produced some 30 million ounces.

Great descriptions here that we can put in the story. Cobalt lead to not just mines--
but helped develop the entire Canadian mining industry in both skills and money
to fund further development.

Threw a hammer? What's the real story there?
August 7--1903 -- they were in the bush. James and Ernest. Getting lumber
for a railway. Found some unusual pink stained rocks: And then had them checked out
in Montreal and Ottawa: Different results -- Montreal said silver!

In September 1903-- Fred La Rose was sharpening steel drills for railway builders.
had worked in a quebec mine. Also noticed pink rocks.

Willett G Miller: he's the ontario provincial geologist--- famous guy--
followed up (Apparently for all of Canada) that this guy followed up with a visit.
Lead to 4 veins being found.

And finally
Tom Herbert: another railroad worker-- pushed Miller to look at a vein he found.
Became the biggest mine in the camp. "Big Nip!" ran for 40 years...

W. AUSTIN MCVEIGH

1882-1975

Born near Ottawa in Quebec. Loved the outdoors.
Did early prospecting before WWI in Cobalt and Kirkland Lake for silve rand gold.
"learned basics of geology." Self-taught?

1926--went to Red Lake after hearing of gold strike there.
1936-- found a good strike; did good prospecting.
Made a great gold mine.

1938 went to Manitoba for the Sherritt Gordon Mines.

1941 prospecting in Lynn Lake (MB) found a good copper/nickel deposit--bu tit was too far.
1943 McVeigh returns--Magnetometer! uses it to find more.
Lynn Lake mine turned out to be a super-rich find. Made Sherritt cash.