Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Preface to the Second Edition xi
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. List of Characters (In Order of Appearance) xv
7. Introduction 3
8. Beginnings
9. Discovering Gold 9
10. The Keevils from England 22
11. Discovering Copper at Temagami 38
12. What Happened to the Trilobites? 50
13. From Temagami to Teck Corporation 67
14. Epilogue, Part One 78
15. Intermezzo
16. From Silver to Lobsters 81
17. The Texas Gulf Discovery at Timmins 91
18. Early Prospecting in Chile 101
19. When Teck was an Oil Company 110
20. Feeling the Stones in the 1960s 114
21. Epilogue, Part Two 124
22. The New Teck Takes Shape
23. Evolving Strategy, People, and Prospects 129
24. Divertimento: Tales from the Wild West 139
25. Consolidation 151
26. Building Two More New Mines 155
27. The Song of Afton 162
28. Dave Barrett And The “Socialist Hordes” 173
29. The Turbulent Seventies 181
30. Bullmoose Coal, Saving Order from Chaos 198
31. China, A Giant Stirring 214
32. Epilogue, Part Three 227
33. A Sea Change in the World
34. Heady Days as an Era Nears Its End 233
35. Managing Through an Unprecedented Recession 241
36. The Highmont Mine and Metal Prices 247
37. Hemlo and the Gold Hustlers 254
38. How Highland Valley Copper Evolved 269
39. Acquiring Cominco, The First Stage 280
40. New Mines at Red Dog and Louvicourt 290
41. Epilogue, Part Four 299
42. The 1990s, A Slow Era for Mining
43. Returning to Chile with Quebrada Blanca 303
44. Financial Problems in Cominco 315
45. The More Things Change… 321
46. Expanding in Metallurgical Coal 324
47. Prospects Come and Go 332
48. Bob Hallbauer, A Leader Gone 344
49. The Saga of Diamond Fields 346
50. Stranger Still, The Bre-X Tale 359
51. The Sumitomo Connection 371
52. Finding Antamina, A Jewel in the Andes 379
53. Epilogue, Part Five 398
54. Before the Boom
55. Noodling Strategy 401
56. Biting the Bullet on Cominco 406
57. Consolidating Canadian Coal 416
58. Denouement 426
59. The Changing of the Guard 435
60. Epilogue, Part Six 439
61. A Once-in-a-Lifetime Phenomenon
62. Life in a Super-Cycle 443
63. Teck Rides a Roller Coaster, 2006–2020 456
64. Epilogue, Part Seven 486
65. Reflections Moving Forward
66. Crossing the Stream by Feeling the Stones 490
67. Riding into the Sunset 497
68. Bibliography 501
69. Index 503