Arthur H. Shore

Arthur H. Shore (born 1893) was a mineral prospector and the first person set up a uranium mine in Faraday Township, Ontario.[1][2] He co-founded and managed the Reeves feldspar Mine and founded the Faraday Uranium Mine.[1] His uranium prospecting, according to Bayne in 1977, led to the "greatest uranium prospecting rush in the world."[3]

Arthur Herbert Shore
Born1893
Campbellford, Ontario
Died10 July 1958
Burks Falls, Ontario
NationalityCanadian
Occupation(s)Box maker, dairy farmer, miner
Known forUranium prospecting and mining

Early life

Shore was born in Campbellford in 1893.[4]

Career

Shore worked in Bancroft as a box maker, as a dairy worker, and as a miner in Cobalt, Ontario.[4]

From 1945 to 1946, Shore was the Managing Director of Bancroft Feldspar Mines Limited, the company that owned and operated Reeves Mine.[5]

In partnership with Roy Munnings, they mined 1,190 tons of feldspar[5] from the mine, which was located at lot 6, Concession XII of Monteagle Township, just north of Bancroft.[6] Shore employed four workers at the mine.[5] After unsuccessfully prospecting many locations nearby Bancroft, and after taking advice from Toronto geologist John C. B. Rogers,[7] in 1948 or 1949, Shore discovered uranium at a lot in Faraday Township. The exact location was lot 15, concession A, a mile from Highway 28, 5 miles south of Bancroft.[1][3][8][9][2]

Shore used adjacent lots 16 and 17 of Concession 10 to developed a mine.[1]

After buying up the property on surrounding lots, on 22 June 1949, Shore incorporated Faraday Uranium Mines Limited, and appointed himself as president.[1][10]

Shore attempted to raise funds to develop the property, but was initially unsuccessful as potential investors were discouraged the perception that the geology in Bancroft was incompatible with the economical extraction of uranium.[11]

Shore dug trenches and stripped rock himself, employing geologists and engineers when needed, before seriously injuring himself.[1]

In 1952, Shore received financial support from Toronto-based Newkirk Mining Corporation and work was done by Pole Star Mining.[1][11]

Shore sold control of the company to Augustus Exploration Limited, who started full development of the site in 1952.[10]

Shore, along with fellow prospectors Bob Thompson and Russ McDonell staked prospects on York River Uranium Mines near Bancroft, in October 1955.[12] Shore discovered uranium mineralization at the Eagle Nest Occurrence, 1.3 km northeast of Bancroft, in 1956.[13] The same year, Shore held shares in Burma Shores Mines Limited, a company incorporated in Toronto that had mineral rights in the plots adjacent to Faraday Mine, in Cardiff, Ontario.[14][15][16] The company was dissolved in April 1965.[16]

See also

References
  1. A.H. Lang, J. W. Griffith, H. R Steacy (1962). Canadian Deposits of Uranium and Thorium (PDF). Yukon University: Geological Survey of Canada - Department of Mines and Technical Surveys. pp. 198, 205.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. Barnes, Michael (2008). More Than Free Gold: Mineral Exploration in Canada Since World War II. General Store Publishing House. ISBN 978-1897113905.
  3. Bayne, A. S. (31 Dec 1977). "REPORT ON WILSON URANIUM PROPERTY CARDIFF S FARADAY TOWNSHIPS" (PDF). Ontario Government. Eastern Ontario Mining Division Counties of Haliburton A Hastings Ontario Canada. p. 10.
  4. North of 7 ... and Proud of It!. Bancroft Heritage Book Committee. p. 52. ISBN 9780973266900.
  5. Fifty sixth annual report of the Ontario Department of Mines, Volume LVI, Part 1 (PDF). Baptist Johnston. 1947. p. 124.
  6. Annual Report - Volume 55. Pennsylvania State University: Ontario Department of Mines and Northern Affairs. 1948. p. 2.
  7. Le Bourdais, Donat Marc (1959). Canada and the atomic revolution. McClelland & Stewart. p. 132.
  8. Geology and Scenery. Peterborough, Bancroft and Madoc Area (PDF). Ministry of Northern Development and Mines. 1969. p. 55. ISBN 0-7729-3597-1.
  9. Mining in Canada. Sanford Evans. 1967.
  10. Reynolds, Nila (1979). Bancroft. A Bonanza of Memories. The Bancroft Centennial Committee.
  11. Proulx, Michèle (1997). The Uranium Mining Industry of the Bancroft Area, an Environmental History and Heritage Assessment (PDF). Peterborough, Ontario: Trent University. p. 52. ISBN 0-612-21696-9. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  12. Ottawa Citizen, 1955.
  13. Radioactive Mineral Deposits of the Pembroke Renfrew Area (PDF). Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. 1981. p. 60.
  14. Hewitt, D. F. (1967). Uranium and Thorium Deposits of Southern Ontario (PDF). p. 10.
  15. Dana, William B. (William Buck), "August 6, 1956: General Corporation and Investment News", Commercial and Financial Chronicle, 1956-08-06, retrieved 2022-01-08{{citation}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  16. Page 10, Mineral Resources Circular No 4 – Uranium and Thorium Deposits of Southern Ontario by D. F. Hewitt, Ontario Department of Mines, 1967
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