Kyle Harrison
to-read
Never Rest on Your Ores
Never Rest on Your Ores: Building a Mining Company, One Stone at a Time
- Author
- Norman B. Keevil
- Published
- 2017
- Pages
- 496
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Keevil’s account of building Teck into a major Canadian miner over six decades — the discoveries, the financings, the partnerships, the deals that did not happen. Mining explained by someone who allocated the capital rather than someone who covered it.
Where I saw it: In the reply thread to @WillManidis’s question, “what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?” (June 2, 2025) — a crowd-sourced list Kyle recovered by hand and saved to his Apple Note “Books To Read”; the full set of replies lives on what is the single best book… (tweet). It was listed there as “Never Rest on Your Ores”.
Connections
- Mining — the industry.
- Capital Allocation — a business where the whole skill is which holes to fund.
- Company Building — six decades of compounding inside one company.
- what is the single best book… (tweet) — the thread this recommendation came from.