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.

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.

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.

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.

R. G. K. MORRISON

1899--1963. "The Father of Rock Mechanics". What's that?
Rock Mechanics and Ground Control is an essential component of safe underground mines.
Makes sense.

Born in Chesterville Ontario. Went to WWI as pilot.
Went to Mining Engineering at U of T.

Worked in northern Manitoba.
1927--1949 worked in India for the Kolar fields. As a miner. And engineer.

Anecdote: Rock disasters common deep underground. Tragedy. Morrison inspired an interest in Rock Mechanics--where he found out about sudden failures of stressed rocks.
Used to be a problem--of rock bursts and explosions--which would eat up miners.

1942-- won the INCO medal researching this problem in Ontario.

Was able to cut down on fatalities. Hey that's great!
1949 Became chairman of mining engineering at McGill.
Industry consultant.
1976 got a medal from CIM.

Lloyd M. Pidgeon

1903--1999.
Mining and Metallurgy.
Worked on the development of highpurity magnesium. Has a process named after him. good.

Anedote
Worked on a magnesium technology that helped WWII.
This is a good example of strategic metals. WWII was an interesting time for metals.

1927 Wow, also studied at McGill, chemistry/metallurgist.
solved electrochemical problems while working at Oxford.
investors got involved, and started a company (R.J. Jowsey, Thayer Lindsley)
1941, Dominion Magnesium founded--he's director of Research.
needed in WWII. Magnesium used for aircraft etc.
1943 Prof of metallurgy at U of T until 1969.
Built grad school of metallurgy--got great reputation.
Dominion--got bought by Timminico.

Further research worked on Calcium and Strontium.

Order of British Empire--1946-- for metal research in WWII I guess.
and Officer of order of Canada 1996.

Alfred Powis

1930--2007
A CEO at Noranda for a long time. Called a company builder.
Was there from 68-- on.
Big on free-trade.
Montreal/Went to McGill/Commerce.
Began as investment analysis--praised for being a CEO. yep.

Noranda--took over Mattagami Lake and Brusnwick mining.
From 70s--80s opened more than 40 mines. big deal.
Noranda: Hemlo Gold; Canadian electrolytic Zinc, Falconbidge, and Aluminum.
ONE OF LARGEST PRODUCERS OF:
zinc, copper, nickel, aluminum.

Worked on exploration--found natural gas in Alberta: Noranda energy.
Chaired the MAC in the 70s.
Order of Canada.

Seymour Schulich

1940--Alive
Financier. Made something called royalty investing. company builder. philanthropist.
Schulich--I've heard of him--there's stuff named after him around here.
OH YEAH... it's that school up at YORK... Hmmn.

He was born in Montreal--went to McGill.
Then he went to school--did business... did business analysis
from like the 60s on...
Came up with this idea--which... is still I don't really get.
But it expanded around the world and made a lot of people a lot of money.
Helped Barrick Gold. And their Goldstrike mine.
Has given a large amount of money to schools. 150 million away. that's a bit.
Is he a billionaire then?
What's his company then.


So he's a mining investor. But what's his company?
Newmont Mining. Newmont Capital. Franco-nevada