Never Rest on Your Ores: Building a Mining Company, One Stone at a Time, Second Edition

More than a century ago, a prospector discovered gold at Ontario’s Kirkland Lake and a son was born to British immigrants in Saskatchewan. The boy – Norman Bell Keevil – went on to become a renowned scientist, teacher, and prospector, discovering a small but high-grade copper mine in Ontario. Parlaying that into control of the Kirkland Lake gold mine fifty years later, he formed the fledgling mining company Teck Corporation.

In Never Rest on Your Ores Keevil’s son Norman, also a geoscientist...