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Dr. Norman B. Keevil, O.C.
Starting out as a university professor, Dr. Norman B. Keevil would
eventually harness his scientific and academic achievements into
building a mining empire with interests spanning across Canada, from
Newfoundland to British Columbia. A leader in the teaching and the study
of geophysics in the 1940s, Dr. Keevil published forty-five scientific
papers during his tenure at the University of Toronto. He left academia
in the late 40s after developing a method of airborne magenetic
surveying that forever altered the nature of mining. In 1954, he used
this to find the Temagami Mine copper deposit, one of the richest
strikes in Canadian mining history.
The Temagami Mine was just the beginning for Dr. Keevil. With his
ability to recognize viable mining properties combined with his business
and financial expertise, he formed a company that, in 1986, acquired
Cominco Ltd. to become Teck Cominco Ltd., one of the largest and most
diversified mining companies in the world.
Dr. Keevil was a prominent supporter of the study of geoscience in the
secondary and post-secondary institutions of Canada. He funded a
Research Chair for Exploration Geoscience at the University of British
Columbia and provided scholarship funding in Earth Sciences for the
University of Western Ontario. He also served as Chairman of the Mining
Association of Canada and as a Director of Expo 86. Dr. Norman B. Keevil
was inducted into the Canadian Business Hall of Fame in 1991. |
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