A century ago, a prospector discovered gold at Ontario's Kirkland Lake and a son was born to British immigrants in Saskatchewan. The boy - Norman Bell Keevil - went on to become a renowned scientist, teacher, and prospector, discovering a small but high-grade copper mine in Ontario. Parlaying that into control of the Kirkland Lake gold mine fifty years later, he formed the fledgling mining company Teck Corporation. In Never Rest on Your Ores , Keevil's son Norman, also a geoscientist, recounts how over the next fifty years ...
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A century ago, a prospector discovered gold at Ontario's Kirkland Lake and a son was born to British immigrants in Saskatchewan. The boy - Norman Bell Keevil - went on to become a renowned scientist, teacher, and prospector, discovering a small but high-grade copper mine in Ontario. Parlaying that into control of the Kirkland Lake gold mine fifty years later, he formed the fledgling mining company Teck Corporation. In Never Rest on Your Ores , Keevil's son Norman, also a geoscientist, recounts how over the next fifty years, a growing team of like-minded engineers and entrepreneurs built Canada's largest diversified mining company. In candid detail he tells the story of a company and its makers, of the discovery and creation of mines, of the mechanics of industry financing, and of the role that mergers and acquisitions play in a volatile environment. Along the way he meets fascinating captains of industry and politicians not only in Canada, but in the United States and around the world. Finding an ore body - rock that holds valuable metals and minerals - and promoting its development in order to finance and create a mine, most often in hard-to-access wilderness, is complicated work, comparable to locating and extracting a needle in a very messy haystack. Underlying this history is a constant need to replenish the ore, and this need drives the people involved. A detailed and revealing history of a company that he helped to grow and lead for many years, Norman Keevil's Never Rest on Your Ores is both entertaining and instructive, a rare insider's account of an industry that has been crucial to the building of this country.
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Add this copy of Never Rest on Your Ores: Building a Mining Company, One to cart. $3.65, good condition, Sold by GW Spokane Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Spokane, WA, UNITED STATES, published 2017 by McGill-Queen's University Press.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Inscribed By Author (CAD) Presumed 1st edition, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to the end paper: "R---Hope you will enjoy, Norman" no other makrings, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Hardcover, 474pp, index, colour photos. This is the story of Teck Resources a major player in the world of mining and Canadian mines by the CEO. There is altter on Teck letterhead, facsimile signed by the President, Donald R Lindsay, giving this book to an unaddressed recipient as a complimentary copy. The letter is laid into the book. (2.7 JM HOQ 103/b2.
