Author: Ian McLeodPublisher: Kelowna, BC : S.H. Company
ISBN: 9780973516500
Category : Hyder Region (Alaska)
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Prospectors, Promoters, and Hard Rock Miners
Author: Ian McLeodPublisher: Kelowna, BC : S.H. Company
ISBN: 9780973516500
Category : Hyder Region (Alaska)
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Never Rest on Your Ores
Author: Norman B. KeevilPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228017823
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
More than 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. Drawing new lessons from the turbulent period between 2005 and 2023, this new edition of 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.
Formidable Heritage
Author: Jim MochorukPublisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN: 0887553214
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Canadians have an ambivalent feeling towards the North. Although climate and geography make our northern condition apparent, Canadians often forget about the north and its problems. Nevertheless, for the generation of historians that included Lower, Creighton, and Morton, the northern rivers, lakes, forests, and plains were often seen as primary characters in the drama of nation building. W.L. Morton even went so far as to write that the ìmain task of Canadian life has been to make something of that formidable heritageî of the northern Canadian shield. For many politicians and developers, "to make something" of the North came to mean thinking of the North as an empty hinterland waiting to be exploited, and today, hydroelectric projects, mining, milling, pulp and paper, and other industries have changed much of the North beyond recognition. One of the first parts of the North to be aggressively industrialized was northern Manitoba. When all of Manitoba was given in 1670 to a group of entrepreneurs, a precedent was set that was replicated throughout the provinceís history. After the province entered confederation in 1870, provincial politicians and business leaders began to look to the northern resources as a new key to the provinceís economic development. Particularly after 1912, they saw resource development in the North as a strategy to expand the provincial economy from its agricultural base. Jim Mochoruk shows how government and business worked together to transform what had been the exclusive fur-trading preserve of the Hudsonís Bay Company into an industrial hinterland. He follows the many twisting paths established by developers and politicians as they chased their goal of economic growth, and recounts the ultimate costs of development in economic, ecological, and political terms.
A Golden State
Author: Marlene Smith-BaranziniPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520217706
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
A collection of essays on mining and economic development in California from the Gold Rush through the end of the 19th century. This is the second in a series of four volumes comemmorating the state's sesquicentennial.
Arctic Revolution
Author: John David HamiltonPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1550022067
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This pathbreaking book offers some nononsense truths about northern development.
Mining American
Author: The Dundurn Arctic Culture and Sovereignty Library
Author: Michael PoslunsPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459729560
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1835
Book Description
This special bundle is your essential guide to all things concerning Canada’s polar regions, which make up the majority of Canada’s territory but are places most of us will never visit. The Arctic has played a key role in Canada’s history and in the history of the indigenous peoples of this land, and the area will only become more strategically and economically important in the future. This bundle provides an in-depth crash course, including titles on Arctic exploration (Arctic Obsession), Native issues (Arctic Twilight), sovereignty (In the Shadow of the Pole), adventure and survival (Death Wins in the Arctic), and military issues (Arctic Front). Let this collection be your guide to the far reaches of this country. Arctic Front Arctic Naturalist Arctic Obsession Arctic Revolution Arctic Twilight Death Wins in the Arctic In the Shadow of the Pole Pike’s Portage Voices From the Odeyak
Mining Reporter
Author: Mineral Exploration and Development Act of 1990
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Mining and Natural ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
Book Description
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