Teck Chairman wins B.C. Chamber award

Two awards were presented at the B.C. & Yukon Chamber of Mines annual meeting, one to Dr N. B. Keevil Sr and the other to James McDougall, for their contribution to the province’s mining industry.

Mr Keevil received the Edgar A. Scholz Medal for his “outstanding contribution to mine development” and Mr McDougall the Spud Huestis award for the “application of prospecting techniques or other geoscience technology.”

Mr Keevil, the chairman of Teck Corp., is involved with several other companies developing natural resources and high technology. He graduated from the University of Saskatchewan and later obtained his doctorate at Harvard in 1937. He held teaching and research posts at both universities and later pursued a distinguished career in the mining industry

In 1954, Mr Keevil and his associates discovered a copper orebody near Temagami, Ont., which proved to be the cornerstone for Teck Corp., a highly successful, diversified, natural resource company.

Mr McDougall grew up in Grand Forks, B.C., and studied geology at the University of British Columbia. He spent approximately 30 years with the Falconbridge group and was involved in the discovery of the Jedway and Tasu copper- iron deposits in the Queen Charlotte Islands. He or his group were also responsible for the discovery of several gold deposits, including one being developed by Trader Resources on Banks Island off the B.C. coast. His list of credits also includes the Windy-Craggy copper- gold-cobalt depo sit in northwestern B.C. A few years ago the Prospectors and Developers Association honored Mr McDougall with their “Prospector of the Year” award.