Category: Prospecting

It was summer, 1970 and I was a member of a Scintrex crew comissioned to fly a geophysical exploration survey in the North West Territories of Arctic Canada. We were based at tiny Repulse Bay, an Inuit hamlet on the Arctic Circle, at the root of the Melville Peninsula. My first impression of Repulse Bay…

In late 1970 I joined a European mining company prospecting in northern Ontario, leading a ground geophysical exploration crew of Quebecois men. These men rarely spoke English so I had to get by on schoolboy French. There were four or five us us: myself and an assistant geophysical operator, and two or three men who…

In 1969 and 1970 I was a data man and occasional navigator of an airborne geophysics crew, working for Siegel Associates (Scintrex) in northern Canada. The aircraft were either Bell Jet Ranger 206B helicopters or a de Havilland Otter float/wheeled planes. The aircraft were equipped with several geophysics instruments, air photos camera and a radio…

My first job with Siegel Associates (later, Scintrex) was as a data man on one of the firm’s helicopter geophysics crews. Everything I did as a dataman was new for me -I had not a clue as to geophysics was when I started the job, but was a hard working fellow and a good learner….