OBITUARY — C.W. Pegg

Charles William Pegg, a well-known exploration geologist who helped find several orebodies in Canada, died recently at age 67.

Mr. Pegg was credited with locating the Mobrun deposit near Rouyn/Noranda, Que.

In finding the Newfoundland zinc mine, he postulated that, because of continental drift, the sedimentary units hosting the Irish base metal deposits would also occur in the Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland. It was a bold theory, which resulted in a new deposit of 4.4 million tons grading 8.8% zinc.

Mr. Pegg graduated in 1947 with the Associateship of the Royal School of Mines and a B.Sc. (first-class honors) in mining geology from London University in England.

He began his career with Johnnesburg Consolidated Investment Co. as a geologist at South African mines. He was also responsible for evaluating exploration properties throughout southern Africa.

In the years that followed, he was employed by Falconbridge Nickel Mines, Cochenour Willans Gold Mines, Rio Tinto Canadian Exploration, Leitch Gold Mines and, later, as a consulting geologist.

He was a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario (mining) and the Society of Economic Geologists.

He is survived by wife Dorothy, daughter Katherine and sons Rex, a Vancouver-based consulting geologist, and Chris, senior research geologist with Lac Minerals.