James Edward Gill

James Edward Gill (born January 16, 1901 in Nelson , British Columbia , † 1980 ) was a Canadian geologist (reservoir geology) and professor at McGill University .

Life

Gill grew up in Vancouver, studied from 1917 at the University of British Columbia and McGill University with a bachelor's degree in 1921 as a mining engineer. In 1925 he received his PhD from Princeton University , where he was a Proctor Fellow, and was then Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester .

From 1929 he was at McGill University in Montreal, where he became professor emeritus in 1969, set up a graduate program for search for deposits and trained numerous mining experts.

He created the concept of the structural province in reservoir science and the corresponding basic classifications of the Canadian shield. In 1929 he discovered rich iron ore deposits in Quebec and Labrador with WR James senior, a well-known mining expert. This was one of the first prospecting campaigns from an airplane. He discovered at least three gold mines in northwest Quebec, found coal on Vancouver Island, fire clay in Pennsylvania, and prospected minerals and ores in the Caribbean, South America, the Northwest Territories, and Red Lake in Ontario. During World War II, he discovered and developed Canada's only chrome mine.

In 1957 he received the Willet G. Miller Medal and in 1967 the Logan Medal . In 2003 he was inducted into the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame.

Web links

• Canadian Mining Hall of Fame