operating Canada’s Mines From Africa to Baffin Island, Nanisivik

His father, a mining engineer who spent many years on the Rhodesian Copper belt, found him his first job which was with Selco Exploration on a geophysical survey party in 1963. He spent three summers at this and, w hen 18, worked underground at the Anglo Rouyn mine in Saskatchewan.

After graduating from Queen’s University in 1971, he worked underground at Falconbridge’s Strathcona Mine at Sudbury, Ont., for three years before going back to school for a Master of Business Administration degree at the University of Western Ontario. After a short stint as a mining analyst with the investment firm of Wood Gundy, he joined the big Amax organization with which he remained for 10 years on various assignments in the U.S., South Africa and Canada. At Amax, he was project mining engineer at its Mactung and Cantung operations.

But looking for production experience, he joined Strathcona Mineral Services — taking his wife to Nanisivik in 1987 — first as mine engineer, then mine superintendent, and the following year mine manager, the post he now holds.

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