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Mining dangerous, but
safety getting better

By KEVIN WARD

If miner Stan Kneller daydreams on

the job, there's a good chance he will
not leave work alive

‘The mine’s as safe as the people

says Kneller, 36, a

miner for 12 years at Cominco Ltd.'s

who work in it,

control than the dynamite being used
more than a decade ago. Supports on
mine walls and ceilings are more effec
tivethan they once were

But no one can guarantee that ac
like one that killed three
gold miners in Timmins, Ont., recently

cidents

reports
In Britain, a country with more than
100,000 miners, 30 people died in mine
accidents during the same period, says
the government's Health and Safety
Executive
MINERS DIE

forestry had the highest number of
disabling injuries for million
man-hours worked, ranging from 70 to
90 per million hours. Mining, quarries
and oil wells made up the fourth most
dangerous sector, with 39 to 68 injuries
per million hours worked

every

SS

Teck's Keevil
slows down pace

By MICHAEL BERNARD

VANCOUVER (CP) — He's been called Evil Keevil,
a Canadian mining pioneer and deal maker known to take
over junior mining companies in the time it takes to drink a
coffee

But these days, Norman Keevil takes it a little easier

“I'm sort of semi-retired,’ the tall, lean 78-year-old
says with achuckle during ait interview in his penthouse of

* fice overlooking the yachts in Vancouyer’s Coal Harbor

“1 don’t put in the 80-hour weeks I used to.""

The work pace — combined with dozens of deals
made Teck Corp. one of the most successful, minin
conglomerates in Canada.

Roland Michener, a former governor general, says the
Teek chairman was a 24-hour-a-day man at the height of his
business career

“He doesn’t loiter or linger if he has work to do,” said
Michener, who helped Keevil incorporate his first company
in 1952 and now is honorary chairman of Teck. ‘*He’s a
man with great strength of body.”

TAKES ON GIANT

The most dramatic example of Keevil’s tenacity came
in 1986 when Teck dazzled thé Canadian mining world by
taking over Cominco Ltd., acompany four times its size

Cominco was struggling under more than $Pbillion in
debt and was looking for a suitor

Keevil and his son Norman Jr. were able to put
sogether-a-deat-that-gave-controtof Cominco to Teck
Almost a third of Cominco’s shares are held in a company
owned by Teck (with 50 per cent) and two partners (25 per
cent each)

Keevil relishes the memory, noting the Cominco board
Was kept waiting hala day for preseniation of the deal

“The takeover was spectacular, sheer. genius,"” says
Bruce McDonald, chairman of the Vancouver-based
resource company Noramco Mining Corp

McDonald knows how quickly Keevil operates. The
two once cut a lucrative deal over a cup of coffee

wearing a cowboy hat, conducted surveys for Dominion
Gulf in Northern Ontario, then began using the technology
for himself
STRIKES COPPER

In 1954, Keevil made a dramatic strike near Lake
Temagami that turned out to be the richest copper deposits
ever found in Canada. While geologists speak of two per
cent being a respectable copper content in ore, Temagan
ran up to 34-per-cent pure copper, Keevil said

In a move that revealed his showmanship, he had a
local tombstone company sandblast the tarnish from a sec
tion of the lode for visiting colleagues.

“It was a fantastic sight," said Keevil
the sun.

“It glistened in

“It was almost a shame to cut into it,””

Between 1972, when Teck moved to Vancouver, and
1984, the company’s asséts soared up to more than $500
million from $47 million. Yet during that stage, Teck main-
tained its reputation for being good {o the junior companies
itteamed up with

Tom Waterland, president of the Mining Association
of British Columbia, said ‘people who do business with
Teck havea habit of doing well.”

GAINS FORTUNE

Keevil has grown rich along with the company. He and
his son, Norman Jr., Teck’s preesident and chief executive
officer, are said to have a personal fortune of more than
$200 million

Keevil Sr. has a hideaway in Hawaii; two summer
retreats on nearby islands in Georgia Strait, a cottage at the
site of his first big find in Ontario's Temagami district, and
renovated. by. renowned “architect Arthur
Erickson, in the posh Shaughnessy district of Vancouver

Keevil has always: demonstrated vision, says former-
secretary Peggy McFarlane, who retired a couple of years
ago after working for him for 30 years. ‘*Five or 10 years

: lockine ohsed.'

a_mansion,

FALLING FOR LOGGERS .

The Worker:

March 1, 1989 C ‘ast legar News B5

Compensation Board has

produced a new video specifically for fallers and landing buckers

emphasizing safety in the field.

Tree falling
video available

The Workers’ Compensation Board
has produced a new video specifically
for fallers and landing buckers
Entitled Falling, the 21-minute,
state-of-the-art color production em
phasizes safety through preparation, a
WCB
clothing, - equipment
planning the fall and safe cutting
techniques are described in suiimer

news release says. Proper

maintenance,

Lumber
With in

request. of the Cariboo
Manufavturers’ Association
put from the CLMA and

unions, Falling is a practical guide to

forestry
ihe safe Talling of trees, according 1
ihe WCB

“With the revised Jballers? and
Buckers’ Handbook
released), Falling will make a vital con

tribution to any logging contractor's

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After studying geology and chemistry at the
University of. Saskatchewan, he earned his doctorate in
1937 at Harvard where he later joined the faculty
BUSINESS GROWS

During his 15-year academic career, Keevil published a
total of 45 scientific papers. But academics weren't paid
well in those days and Keevil turned to geological con
sulting.

school,

two years I had 15 (geological) parties in the field.
Then we turned some of the profits back into the company
and started looking for things ourselves.”

As his consulting business grew, he was forced to
choose business over university

While hundreds of others scoured Northern Ontario
on foot, searching fot promising mineral deposits after the
Second World War, Keevil was adapting military
technology to find his fortune

Using an airborne magnetometer, based on a device
used by the navy-to-track submarines, Keevil, often seen

e
Sometimes Keevil acted like an absent-minded
professor, leaving the office and rarely telling her where he
was going, she said, But he was also a fanatic for detail and
neatness

ATTENDS DETAIL

“One time he gave me a detailed list
daughter an evening dress outfit, down to the black silk
purse,”’ McFarlane said with a laugh:

When important guests were about to arrive, he would
quietly go around the office asking the secretaries to clean
off their desks, she recalled

**He also hated to spend money and preferred to drive
himself rather than take a taxi — he thought taking taxis
was a waste of money."*

to buy his

While Keevil says he’s slowing down, the pace is not
slow

He has already been practising his skating
rink he discovered in Hawaii — for his moment of glory at
Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens on March 7

onan ice

Minimum wage may go up |

KAMLOOPS (CP) The

minimum wage in British Columbia be going up

nor deny that the minimum wage will

$3.65 for those under 18. The previous
increase had been Feb. 1, 1987, from

could increase 50 cents an hour to $5
this summer, Social Services Minister
Claude Richmond said

The increase will come in June or

“Certainly, | think a lot of people
will now be under that impression
because there was the statement
made,”’ Vander Zalm said. ‘That's

$3.65 for those over 18 and from $3 for
those under 18
By comparison, the minimum wage

in Ontario and Quebec is $4.75 an

and winter conditions. Set in the in
terior of British Columbia, Falling uses
interviews-and- dramatic footage to
demonstrate safe practises in hand and
mechanical falling, the release says

The WCB produced Falling at the

Safety program, "the WCB says

In: 1987, 34 Then died working in
B.C. forests. Eleven were tallers oF
buckers, the WCB says

Copies of Falling in VHS format are
available for $25 fromthe WCB.

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costs

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told a shabby-looking man to take a
hike when he wanted a60-cent parking
slip validated

So he did = takirig his million-dollar
account down the street to another
bank

“If you have $1 in a bank or $1
million, I think they owe you the cour
tesy of stamping your parking ticket,
said John Barrier

The 59-year-old man admits to being
acharacter

He made his million refurbishing old
buildings, but goes around in shabby
clothes

bank .

stood back and gave me one of those
kinds of looks,” said Barrier

“1 said, ‘Fine, you don’t need me
and I don’t need you

Phyltis Campbell, area manager for
the U.S. Bank of Washington, says
the incident: prompted the bank to

review the way it does business

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Most guys are pretty good. But
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Canada occurred in 1958, when 75
were killed at the No. 2 Cumberland
Mine in Springhill, N.S. The country’s
worst mine disaster was in 1914, when
189 died in a mine explosion and fire at
Hillcrest, Alta

Miller, presideny of the
Mining Association of Canada, which
represents 80 Canadian mining com

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panies, said accidents have decreased
because of improvements.

“But | think inherent
dangers that you don’t have in other
occupations,” Miller said. ‘That puts

there are

yan onus on workers and management

to work safely.""

Nickel giant Inco Ltd., for example,
hasestablished an institute in Northern
Ontario to study the physics of rock
movement to help) it design safer
mines, he said

Bur Stan Kneller, who has a Wife and
three children, says he thinks mining
willalwaysbeadangerousjob

‘There are a few scary moments,"
he said. ‘We've got a fairly safe mine
here. But you'll always have human
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meeting with the cabinet committee on
regional development
He then backtracked, saying an in

confirmation of

Premier Bill Vander Zalm, who was
at the meeting, would neither confirm

Vander Zalm said he wants to leave
any increase to
Labor Minister Lyall Hanson.

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