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Module 4 Appendix 4 – Books Written about Mining in Canada

  • Barkhouse, J., 1974. George Dawson: The little giant. Toronto, ON: Clarke, Irwin.
  • Barlee, N.L. , 1997. Gold creeks and ghost towns. Surrey, B.C.: Hancock House Publishers
  • Barnes, M., 1992. Barnes, Michael. Timmins, ON: The Porcupine Country
  • Barnes, M., 1994. Kirkland Lake on the mile of gold, Erin, ON: Boston Mills Press.
  • Barnes, M., 1978. The town that stands on gold: Kirkland Lake. Cobalt, ON: Highway Book Shop.
  • Barnes, M., 1975. Gold in Porcupine! Highway Book Shop: Cobalt, ON.
  • Barnes, M., 1986. Fortunes in the Ground: Cobalt, Porcupine and Kirkland Lake Erin, ON: Boston Mills Press.
  • Barnes, M., 1995. Gold in Ontario. Erin, ON: Boston Mills Press.
  • Bray, R. M., Epp, A. E., & Ontario Ministry of Northern Affairs, 1984. A Vast and Magnificent Land: An Illustrated History of Northern Ontario. Thunder Bay & Sudbury, ON: Lakehead University & Laurentian University.
  • Coates, K., 1986. Miners and moonshiners. Canadian Historical Review, 67, 466.
  • Cobalt Historical Society, 2000. The heritage silver trail. Cobalt, ON: Highway Book Shop.
  • Cranstone, D. A., 2002. A History of mining and Mineral Exploration in Canada and Outlook for the Future, Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved from http://www.mineralsed.ca/i/pdf/AHistoryofMining&MineralExplorationInCanada-NRCan.pdf
  • de Hullu, E., E., 1993. Bridge River Gold. Langley, BC: University Printers Ltd.
  • Demont, J., 2009. Coal Black Heart: The Story of Coal and the Lives It Ruled (Nonfiction work). Maclean's, 122(13), 59.
  • Eyles, N., 2002. Ontario rocks: Three billion years of environmental change. Markham, ON: Fitzhenry & Whiteside.
  • Fraser, H., Cherney, K, & Pearce, D., 1985. A journey north: The great Thompson nickel discovery. Thompson, MB: Inco.
  • Geological Association of Canada, 2007. Mineral deposits of Canada: A synthesis of major deposit-types, district metallogeny, the evolution of geological provinces, and exploration methods. Edited by Wayne D. Goodfellow, St. John’s Nfld: Geological Association of Canada, Mineral Deposits Division
  • Girdwood, C., Jones, L., & Lonn, G., 1983. The big dome. Over seventy years of gold mining in Canada. Toronto, ON: Cybergraphics Company.
  • Goodwin, W.L., 1929. Geology and Minerals of Ontario 1st Edition. Gardenvale, Quebec. Industrial and Educational Publishing Company.
  • Goodwin, W.L., 1930. Geology and Minerals of Manitoba 1st Edition. Gardenvale, Quebec. Industrial and Educational Publishing Company.
  • Grice, J., 1987. Famous mineral localities of Canada. Co-published by the National Museum of Natural Sciences.
  • Hawley, J.E., 1962. The Sudbury Ores: Their Mineralogy and Origin. Mineralogical Association of Canada, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada.
  • Hoffman, A., & Hoffman, I. D., 1947. Free gold: The story of Canadian mining. Toronto, ON: Rinehart.
  • Inco, 1955. Nickel, A vital factor in the Economic Life of Canada. The International Nickel Company of Canada, Limited. No location.
  • Inco, 2006. Inco Exchange Building the World's Leading Nickel Company: A Storied History, Toronto, ON: Public Affairs Group.
  • Jenkins, P., & Dawson, G. M., 2007. Beneath my feet: The memoirs of George Mercer Dawson. Toronto, ON: McClelland and Stewart.
  • Kutz, Kenneth J., 1998. Untold Wealth: Canada's Mineral Heritage (1st ed). Darien, CT: Gold Fever Publishing,
  • Lang, A., & Geological Survey of Canada, 1956. Prospecting in Canada (3d ed., Economic geology series (Geological Survey of Canada no. 7). Ottawa, ON: Queen's Printer
  • LeBourdais, D., 1953. Sudbury Basin: The story of nickel. Toronto, ON: Ryerson Press.
  • Northern Miner Press, 1934 to 2012. Canadian Mines Handbook. Toronto, ON.
  • Northern Miner Press, 2013 to Present. Canadian & American Mines Handbook. Toronto,ON.
  • Northern Miner Press, 1981. Mining, oil & gas explained. Toronto, ON
  • Ontario Department of Mines and Improvement District of Manitouwadge, 1963. Manitouwadge: Cave of the Great Spirit. Thunder Bay, ON: Rainbow Printers Ltd.
  • Sandberg, Patricia, 2016. Sun Dogs and Yellowcake Gunnar Mines – A Canadian Story. Crackingstone Press.
  • Smith, P., & Ontario Ministry of Northern Development Mines, 1986. Harvest from the rock: A history of mining in Ontario. Toronto, ON: MacMillan of Canada.
  • Taylor, G., 1977. Mining, the history of mining in British Columbia (Resource series). Saanichton, BC: Hancock House.
  • Thoms, R., & Rearsall, K., 1994. Sudbury. Erin, ON: Boston Mills Press.
  • Udd, J., 2000. A century of achievement. The development of Canada’s minerals industries. CIM special volume 52, Montreal, QC: Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum.
  • Zoellner, T., 2009. Uranium: War, energy, and the rock that shaped the world. New York, NY: Viking.

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Donna Beneteau

  • Specialist: Geology
  • Experience: Over 20 Years
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