Were it not for the decision of W one man to probe just a little deeper into the Camflo ground, the orebody may never have become a mine. This is how it happened:
On the basis of a magnetometer survey in 1962, three holes were drilled. The first two intersected barren iron formation and an apparently barren syenite porphyry intrusive. The third hole probed a nearby magnetic high, and this turned out to be a barren diorite sill. The drill was being dismantled when the vice-president of the company, Gordon Cameron, decided to push the hole another 100 ft. That 100 ft of core encountered highly altered auriferous diorite and the rest, as they say, is history.
The mine and the company, by the way, were named after Cameron and the president, Jack Florence.
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