One of this country’s newest and more successful producers, the Lawyers mine is making waves with a 550-ton plant operating at full capacity, with excellent metal recoveries turning out bullion at the highly profitable gold equivalent of $207(US) per oz.
A 1960 graduate in mining engineering from the University of Toronto, Smith has travelled extensively. Prior to graduation, he worked underground for Sherritt Gordon Mines at Lynn Lake, Man., and for Eldorado Mining & Refining at Uranium City, Sask.
After graduation, Smith went to South America and stayed for 10 years with Cerro de Pasco Corp. as mine foreman, captain and assistant superintendent at various underground mines in Peru. He then returned to Canada for a 2-year stint with Cominco — project engineer at its Sullivan mine in Kimberley, B.C., and mine superintendent at its Bluebell mine in Riondel, B.C. Then he returned to Central America as senior mine captain at the El Mochito mine of New York & Honduras Rosario Mining.
Smith returned to Canada in 1972 and spent the next 10 years with United Keno Hill Mines in the Yukon as mine superintendent, general superintendent and, in 1979, mine manager.
He moved to the head office of Malartic Hygrade Gold Mines in Toronto in 1982 as vice-president of operations, and in 1983 to Asamera Inc. in Calgary as general manager of mines — the Cannon in the Wenatchee area, Wash., and the Gooseberry at Reno, Nev.
In September, 1987, Smith joined Cheni as operations manager of the Lawyers project at the beginning of its construction phase, bringing it into production in March this year.
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