OBITUARY — G.R. Cunningham-Dunlop

Well-known mining engineer Gordon Richard (Dick) Cunningham-Dunlop died recently in Oakville, Ont. He had just turned 61.

Mr. Cunningham-Dunlop was born in Haileybury, Ont., a son of the late John (Jack) Cunningham-Dunlop, a mining engineer who pursued a highly successful career as a senior officer in the Ventures Ltd. group of companies. Gordon Richard Cunningham-Dunlop was a grandson of Major C.J.A. Cunningham-Dunlop, a veteran of two wars who turned prospector and staked the Dickenson and part of the Campbell Red Lake mines before becoming too ill to hold his claims. Surviving members of the family in the mining industry include brothers Jack, a consulting mining engineer in Wellington, Ont., and Peter, a consulting geologist in Perth, Australia. Dick’s son Ian, a geological engineer, and his nephew Bruce, a mine operator in North Bay, Ont., make up the fourth generation of the Cunningham-Dunlop family.

Mr. Cunningham-Dunlop graduated from Queen’s University, Kingston, Ont., in 1957 and began a career that encompassed exploration, mine development, construction, operations and corporate administration. He provided consulting services to clients in North and Central America and Europe. During the past 19 years, as president of Consolidated Professor Mines, he struggled resolutely to bring into production the Duport gold property at Shoal Lake, Ont. The project became his life’s work. He had outlined a significant high-grade orebody, solved metallurgical and logistical problems and won out over obstructing environmentalists before becoming too incapacitated to carry on.