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.

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.

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.

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!

Sir Harry Oakes

1874--1943 Excellent!
Prospector-- not Geologist.

"Adventure, fame and fortune all came the way of Sir Harry Oakes, the self-made prospector and mine-finder who transformed Ontario's Kirkland Lake district into one of the world's most famous gold camps."
Adventure! Lake Shore Mine was the first significant of the area.

Lake Shore-- made MAD amount of Gold.

Born American, Maine. went to school there. B.A.!

Roamed the world looking for gold.
Klondike 1899. Alaska, New Zealand, Australia, Mexico... Many more!
Adventure.
"A keen interest in geology"

1910 Went to Cobalt and Porcupine. Heard they were staked.
Anecdote: How he found the strike:
"After hearing about granite-that-might-be-porphyry occurring east of Swastika, he headed off with his prospecting tools and $2.65 in cash. Within days, he found porphyry containing a small, weakly gold-bearing quartz vein outcrop on the south shore of Kirkland Lake, which he arranged to have staked."

1912! Gold! Kept going. Found more stuff.
Then returned to Kirkland Lake.

1918: Tenacity paid off--the Lake Shore Property.
Huge mine.

His career was aptly described by The Northern Miner as "a monument to the opportunities of gold mine prospecting in Canada".

Harry L. Roscoe

1885--1963. Man do these guys ever have names-- (Although he was Bill to his friends)

Worked for Noranda Mines--made Canadian mines go global. Big deal.
Made small Quebec company into one of the leaders. Looks mean though.

American--Michigan.
Moved to Sudbury in 1910s? as engineer and miner. (mine captain?)
Joined Noranda in 1926. Worked on the Horne mine,
work lead to find some great ore-bodies.
Became executive in the late 1940.
Moved its office to Toronto in late 40s.
"top technical person". Yeah, I get that.


Became Canadian--helped grow Noranda And Rouyn. (twin cities you know).

Edgar A. Scholz

1915--1980
Placer Dome/Placer Development guy--figured out how to do low-cost bulk mining, uh, worldwide. Specializing in open pits/multi-ore body.
that's something.
Combined/mineral deposit geology and business knowledge. enterpeneur stuff.
that's how he do to make it go together.


Believed in gold--in the 50s-- worked out how to make money for it through open pit gold deposits.

American. Geological engineering school.
miner. manager.

Become explorer.

Explored international. (phillipines) in 50s etc;

Did work in 60s on a Molybdenum mine in Endako BC.

Williams Lake BC, Copper mines.

Franklin K. Spragins

1914--1978
Risk taking engineer and business leader.
Developed Canada's oil sands.
Founder of Syncrude Canada-- the largest oil producer in Canada (huge Alberta)
American. From Mississippi/Texas.
Came to Canada / joined Imperial Oil.
worked as an explorer in Saskatchewan/Alberta/NWT
did discoveries in Leduc and Redwater.
Worked on oil sands from 49-- on. Started 65--syncrude.
researcher. scientist. engineer.
solved problems of oil sand.
did Aboriginal development program. nice.

Robert Crooks Stanley

1876-1951.
He was a big nickel guy for Inco.
Worked it in Sudbury with 8 mines there; and Thompson Manitoba to. Lots of stuff ther.e
He looks like he's a guy having his picture taken.
Inco used to be American right?

Began with Orford Copper-- a prequel to Inco in 1910. No way.
Became VP of International Nickel.

Anecdote: To the Inco story is that after WWI nickel market collapsed--
And under Stanley's direction the company started trying to figure it out.
Found many places to use Nickel. That's exciting--shows how markets, mining,
historical forces work together. (Something here- but needs "mined")

Did early reports on Cobalt area in 1904 too. On Silver.
And Did some early reports that lead to porcupine area/ dome mine/ timmins

But why do they need to mention he was a fisherman?
We know nothing about this man except that he liked Salmon. Huh.

John Fairfield Thompson

1881-1968 .
Worked for 5 decades. Thomson-- is an Inco guy. Scientist--worked on Nickel and Nickel Alloys.
Worked on the classic Stainless Steel Kitchen Sink. All that and the kitchen sink?
Maybe a story in there.

Was a mining executive/owner/ doing explorations of Lynn Lake in Manitoba.
Made first fully integrated mine/mill/refining place.
Town was named after him. Thompson I guess.

American. Began as scientist for Inco.
Worked on alloys/different usage for metals.
Moved from US to Canada. Became senior executive. '
Presumably Ontario/Sudbury. (although no proof in the record here--could have been exec in Toronto)
BIG output during WWII of nickel.

Designed the stainless steel sink.... in 1948. That's a cool story. How about that?

Became president--chairman. Did manitoba stuff.