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.

Peter Munk

1927--Alive

Founder and builder of Barrick Gold. Wow he's rich.

Immigrant from hungary in 1927
1952--electrical engineering u of t.

1983-- Bought stake in Alaskan mine and Renabie mine in Ontario. Gold.
Camflo in Quebec. Technical team: Robert Smith (see bio)
Nevada. bought more gold property.
it all went up in value--this was the Goldstrike mine.

Made powerful mining and financing moves.
Went international.
Big business man.
Philanthropist.

Not much more known about hte man.

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.