Eight new inductees to Mining Hall of Fame

The Canadian Mining Hall of Fame will induct eight individuals at its annual dinner on Jan. 9, 1995, in Toronto.

Established seven years ago, the Hall honors legendary minefinders and builders who contributed to the growth of the Canadian mining industry. The eight new inductees, three of whom are alive, will bring to 62 the number of individuals honored by the Hall.

The Mining Hall of Fame consists of a gallery of portraits of the inductees and a videocassette. The Hall, which currently has no permanent home, is sponsored by the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum, the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada, The Mining Association of Canada and The Northern Miner.

Archibald M. Bell — (1906-1991)

Involved in the development of several mines during his career, he is best known for his role in the discovery of the Copper and Needle Mountain orebodies of Gaspe Copper in Quebec. Bell managed exploration for Noranda for 25 years and, during the period, helped the company to move beyond its original base of the Horne mine to become a diversified, international company.

David G. Burchell — (1909-1994)

A pioneer in Canadian coal mining, Burchell was an explorer and builder with five underground coal mines to his credit. He contributed greatly to the advancement of coal-mining technology in Canada and also made important contributions to the welfare of the mining industry in Nova Scotia (where his mines were situated).

George H. Dumont — (born 1911)

A mining engineer and geologist by profession, Dumont was involved in the engineering and development of the 11 deposits he helped to discover in Quebec. Among the deposits is East Sullivan, which became one of the largest copper-zinc mines in the Abitibi region.

Egil H. Lorntzsen — (born 1908)

His prospecting career began in the Bridge River gold district of British Columbia during the Depression years. Several decades later, during the porphyry copper-molybdenum boom, Lorntzsen made an “elephant” copper discovery in nearby Highland Valley; the Lornex deposit eventually became part of one of the largest mining operations in the world.

Willet Green Miller — (1866-1925)

Miller was the first provincial geologist for Ontario and the first to recognize the importance of the silver discoveries made at Cobalt early this century; his foresight and skill in shaping the Cobalt camp were to bring him worldwide prominence. Miller ranks with Sir William Logan and George Dawson for his contributions to the knowledge of the geology of Canada and his vision of its mineral potential.

Sir Harry Oakes — (1874-1943)

A self-made prospector and mine-finder, Oakes transformed Ontario’s Kirkland Lake district into one of the world’s most famous gold camps. His outstanding achievement was the discovery and development of the Lake Shore mine, which produced more than 8 million oz. gold from 1918 to 1965. (Oakes died at his home in the Bahamas in 1943 — the victim of an unsolved murder.) Harry O. Seigel — (born 1924)

A prominent Canadian geophysicist, Seigel conceived and pioneered several new methods of mineral exploration now used around the world. He is best known for the broad and successful line of geophysical instruments marketed around the world under the Scintrex label, a company he founded in 1967. Arthur W. Stollery — (1914-1994)

Stollery played a key role in finding two great orebodies and contributed to the development of both Denison Mines and Camflo Mines. He came to prominence in the 1950s, when he staked a property in Ontario’s Elliot Lake district which proved to host a massive uranium orebody. He later acquired and explored potash projects in Saskatchewan.