Managing Canada’s Mines Computers are good tools but people make

He also gained wide experience as an underground contract miner both at Timmins and Sudbury before graduation. Then, following graduation, he held various engineering and supervisory positions with Canadian Gypsum at Hagersville, Ont., the Granduc Operating Company at Stewart, B.C., and Pamour Porcupine Mines at Timmins before joining the staff at the big Kidd Creek operation in 1976. There he progressed through various levels of supervision with increasing responsibilities.

He joined Giant Yellowknife Mines in 1986 as manager at its Pamour No 1 mine and was promoted to the post of manager of mining operations for that company’s Timmins division two years later, with three underground gold mines and three open pit operations within a 60 mile radius under his wing.

“In this electronic age, information is available at our fingertips. For any one problem, an endless number of solutions can be simulated with a computer,” he points out. “But we must remember that a manager’s most important function is still to make decisions,” he is quick to add.

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