Dome Mines
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| Formerly | Dome Mines Company |
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| Industry | Mining |
| Founded | 23 March 1910 |
| Defunct | 13 August 1987 |
| Fate | Merged with Placer Development |
| Successor | Placer Dome |
| Headquarters | |
Dome Mines Limitedwas a Canadian mining company that existed from 1910 to 1987. It has been the largest gold producer in Canada and in North America.
The company was formed to operate theDome MineinTimmins, Ontario,and expanded to operate mines Ontario and Quebec.Dome Petroleumwas formed in 1950. The company was acquired by Barrick Gold in 2006.
History
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Headquartered inToronto,Dome was established in 1910[1]to operate the Dome Mine in Timmins, Ontario after a major discovery by a group working for W. S. Edwards in May 1909.[2]The company later became Canada's largest gold producer.[1]
For most of its existence, Dome Mines was Canada's largest gold producer.
Workers for subsidiary Dome Exploration, discovered the ore that became the Campbell Mine inBalmertownin 1944. Dome Exploration then became Campbell Red Lake Mines Limited.[3]Other subsidiaries were Kiena Gold Mines Limited and Sigma Mines in Quebec.[4]
The company entered the petroleum industry in 1950 with the creation ofDome Petroleum.
In 1987, under the leadership of Fraser M. Fell, Dome merged with theVancouvermining company Placer Development to formPlacer Dome.The new merged entity became the largest mining company in North America.
In 2006Barrick Goldacquired Placer Dome.
Leadership
[edit]President
[edit]- John F. H. McCarthy, 1910
- William S. Edwards, 1911
- Ambrose Monell,1912–1914
- Joseph Raphael de la Mar,1915–1918
- Jules Semon Bache,1919–1942
- Clifford William Michel, 1943–1958
- James Botterell Redpath, 1959–1977
- Malcolm Auguste Taschereau, 1978–1983
- Charles Henry Brehaut, 1983–1987
Chairman of the Board
[edit]- Jules Semon Bache,1943–1944
- Clifford William Michel, 1959–1976
- Maj-GenAlbert Bruce Matthews,1976–1983
- Fraser Matthews Fell, 1983–1987
References
[edit]- ^abCousineau, Eric; Richardson, Peter R. (1979).Gold, the World Industry and Canadian Corporate Strategy.Centre for Resource Studies, Queen's University. p. 128.ISBN978-0-88757-013-1.
- ^Girdwood, Charles P.; Jones, Lawrence F.; Lonn, George (1983).The Big Dome: Over Seventy Years of Gold Mining in Canada.Cybergraphics Company. p. 18.OCLC10762449.
- ^Suorineni, F T; Kaiser, P K; Mgumbwa, J J; Thibodeau, D (September 2011). "Mining of orebodies under shear loading Part 1 – case histories".Mining Technology.120(3): 137–147.doi:10.1179/1743286311Y.0000000012.S2CID131252125.
- ^"Dome Mines Limited".Financial Post.19 July 1986. p. 22.ProQuest435805487.
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