He joined the company as assistant to the manager of operations in 1987 and promoted to manager six months later. In this post he oversees both Malartic’s interest in the Camflo mine operated by American Barrick Resources and Malartic’s own Orion Mine.
Immediately after completing high school he joined the Canadian army where he studied basic engineering, taking his first job with Mattagami Lake Mines as sampler. From 1963-66 he worked as mine geologist at Opemiska Copper Mines and to 1975 at Rio Algom’s Mines de Poirier as mine geologist.
Other mining stints were as project geologist at Serem Canada Ltd., with Selco Mining at its Selbaie project and in 1977 with Mining Corporation of Canada as project geologist dealing with property evaluation in both Canada and U.S.A. This was followed by a five-year spell as chief geologist at Noranda’s Chadbourne division.
“The shifting of my career from geology to production management was accentuated following the five years where I worked on evaluation. During those years I saw many disastrous ventures which could have been avoided with a minimum of experience and common sense,” he says.
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