People/engineer, prospector

James Paul Norrie

James Paul Norrie (1891–1945), engineer, prospector, from Canada. Linked to gold.

The lucky break

Showed that deposits next to the richest of north-western Quebec's large gold mines could be productive and profitable.1

Legacy

DCB says the Malartic area owes him a great deal; in 2011 Osisko began an open-pit mine combining several sites he helped exploit. He sold his Ile Tiblemont shares to an American group for a considerable sum.1

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Sources

  1. NORRIE, JAMES PAUL Dictionary of Canadian Biography

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Super Pit, Kalgoorlie by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0; Underground mining equipment by Kaupo Kikkas, CC BY-SA 4.0. Pictures: Gold prospectors constructing a long box with a filter for panning gold. Process print after H.M. Paget, 1899., Henry Marriott Paget (Public Domain Mark 1.0).