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Al Coutts was working as chief geologist for Falconbridge at Kidd Mines in Timmins when he got the big break he had been waiting for: a promotion to mine manager.
It had been his goal to work in Sudbury where the big mines were, and Coutts felt like he had finally made it. But he hadn’t been celebrating long when his boss, Warren Holmes, broke the news that Coutts wouldn’t be posted to Sudbury, but to Raglan Mine, situated on the Ungava Peninsula in remote Québec.
He was visibly disappointed, until his boss delivered some sage words of advice. “It’s one thing to earn your opportunity,” Coutts, the current president and CEO of Noront Resources, recalled Holmes saying. “And it’s another thing to see it and take it when it’s staring you in the face.”
Sure enough, Holmes was right, Coutts said, and he later recognized the post as the gift it was. “That operation shaped the entirety of my career,” Coutts said. “Learning French, working closely with Indigenous partners, working in remote operations – this had a profound effect on everything I did after that.”
Lessons learned from more than 30 years in mining were imparted by Coutts to a group of post-secondary geoscience students gathered in Sudbury on May 3 for the 2019 Student-Industry Mineral Exploration Workshop (S-IMEW).
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