Never Rest on Your Ores
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Never Rest on Your Ores
| Full title | Never Rest on Your Ores: Building a Mining Company, One Stone at a Time |
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| Author | Norman B. Keevil |
| Published | 2017 |
| Pages | 496 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Norman 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 heard about it
- Replies to @WillManidis — named in the replies to his question “what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?”, June 2025. Full list: what is the single best book… (tweet).
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.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.