Nine new Mining Hall of Fame inductees

Nine new members will be inducted into the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame at a

Jan. 10, 1994, dinner ceremony at Toronto.

The nine were chosen from a list of 19 nominees announced previously by the Mining Hall of Fame, which was established six years ago. The purpose of the Hall of Fame is to recognize and honor those legendary minefinders and builders who contributed to the growth of the Canadian mining industry. The nine new members will join 45 inductees who have been honored in previous years. Of the nine new members, four are deceased.

In its present form, the Hall of Fame consists of a gallery of portraits of the inductees; it has no permanent home. The display of portraits is shown at mining and other events across the country.

Sponsors of the Hall of Fame are: the Mining Association of Canada; the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada; the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum; and The Northern Miner, part of the Southam group of companies.

Frederick R. Archibald (born 1905)

A metallurgical wizard, Frederick Archibald guided to commercial use a number of metallurgical advances for Falconbridge, including a process for treating arsenical ores, fluid-bed roasting and electric-furnace smelting, a special process for treating lateritic nickel ores, and the Hydride Process. Lakefield Research was also one of his creations.

Bernard Brynelsen (born 1911)

As Noranda’s “Man in the West,” Bernard Brynelsen proved to be a profitable scout for the company. Through his efforts, Noranda invested in several mines, including Brenda, Bell and Boss Mountain. It was his optimism and enthusiasm, and his unwavering support for ordinary prospectors who came calling at his door, that made him a successful minefinder.

Come Carbonneau (born 1923)

Come Carbonneau has been able to cram not one but two careers into his hectic, productive life. With a doctorate in geology, he has been a professor in the science and engineering faculty at Laval University. And he has also been an aggressive entrepreneur who created the Quebec Crown mining exploration corporation Soquem, part of which was spun off into gold producer Cambior.

C. Stanley Davidson (1900-1967)

Electromagnetics (EM) and the name C. Stanley Davidson were nearly synonymous earlier this century. It was Davidson’s inventive, resourceful mind that helped to build, out of scrap parts, one of the country’s first EM devices. Refinements of this model located many of the Lynn Lake, Man., deposits and a host of others elsewhere in the country. Without Davidson, Canadian mining would not have attained the stature it enjoys today.

H.E.T. Haultain (1869-1961)

Every graduating engineer in Canada owes a special debt to Herbert Edward Terrick Haultain, for it was at the professor’s urging that the engineering fraternity adopted the Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer, or the Kipling Ritual as it is known today. Beyond that, his impact on Canadian mining in this century is incalculable. His more than 300 graduates truly became the captains of the mining industry. As well, he was an inventor, two of his creations being the Infrasizer and the Superpanner.

Robert Jackson Jowsey (1881-1965)

The dean of “mine makers,” a pioneer of Canadian mining and a true “dog-team-and-canoe” prospector — Robert Jowsey was all of these and more. He prospected in practically all the early camps of Canadian mining and his list of accomplishments includes several mine discoveries. In fact, his God’s Lake mine was nearly an act of sheer will, because Jowsey overcame incredible obstacles in developing the project.

John Kostuik (born 1911)

John Kostuik is a mining man of the old school: hard-boiled, hard-driving and, in the jargon of today, “results-oriented.” He first gained recognition for his successes at the Howey gold mine, the lowest-grade (yet profitable) producer in Canada. But Kostuik will always be remembered for developing Denison’s Elliot Lake uranium property into a large-tonnage, underground producer. During his term as president, Denison became a huge energy resources company, with interests in uranium, oil and gas, and coal. Charles E. Michener (born 1907)

It has been said of Charles Michener that he possesses an imaginative exploration philosophy, sound academic approach and the resolute perseverance of a risk-taker. That mix of qualities certainly was put to good use, for Michener’s exploration successes on behalf of Inco included the South Mine orebody, the Duluth Gabbro find, a laterite deposit in Australia and many others.

William S. Row (1904-1984)

William Row was eventually to climb to the pinnacle of Noranda’s corporate ladder. But his first big project — the building of the Kerr Addison gold mine into one of Canada’s few half-million-ounce-per-year producers — stands as his enduring achievement. Beyond “Bill’s creation,” as the Kerr mine was once called, Row worked tirelessly for the industry as a whole, at times taking on the presidency of both the Ontario and the national mining associations during his distinguished career.

CRS appoints director

The Centre for Resource Studies (CRS) at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont., has a new executive director.

George Hood replaces out-

going executive director Margot Wojciechowski.

Prior to joining CRS, Hood

was a senior official with the Saskatchewan government. He holds two master’s degrees, one in political science and the other in public administration. From 1981 to 1984, he worked in the Department of Finance, and in 1984-85 he negotiated federal-provincial agreements (although these were not related to mining).

His most recent position was as director of the Crown corporation that managed the Rafferty-Alameda dam project in Saskatchewan. Having been with the project since its inception, Hood gained a thorough understanding of how environmental issues can affect economic development.

Hood told The Northern Miner that “one of the things I can bring to CRS is an interesting perspective on environmental issues as they affect the mining industry.”

He sees CRS as a place that “provides soundly researched studies on topics relevant to the mining industry.”

One of his goals is to bring more regional balance to the studies carried out at CRS. This would involve looking at other parts of the country such as Western Canada.