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VIDEO: My Top 10 Mining Mistakes: Address by Ian Telfer

Part of Goodman School of Mines Lecture Series

By Frank Giorno www.mininglifeonline.net

Feb 10, 2015

Ian Telfer, Chairman of Goldcorp Inc., spoke on invaluable lessons learned from his career missteps as part of the Goodman School of Mines Lecture Series at Sudbury's Laurentian University.

Telfer is a compelling storyteller with a self-deprecating sense of humour. Telfer is also an inspirational and entertaining speaker. For the past thirty years has served as a director and officer of a number of Canadian and International Mining Companies, including serving as the Chairman of Goldcorp  Inc., the world’s third  largest gold producer.

Telfer was also Chairman of the World Gold Council from 2009-2013 and in 2006 was honoured as Western Canada’s Entrepreneur of the Year. Mr. Telfer is a Fellow in the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Canada, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto and a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Ottawa which since 2007 has been named the Telfer School of Management.

On Thursday January 15, Telfer was inducted into the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame on at the induction dinner in Toronto.

My Top Ten Mining Mistakes

The next day he spoke to the faculty and students at the Goodman School of Mines at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario on the topic of “My Top 10 Mining Mistakes.”

How can a person like Ian Telfer begin to itemize his Top 10 Biggest Mining Mistakes when his career has been filled with much success?

And that’s the point, in life, the mistakes count as much as the successes and in most cases the mistakes are what pave the way for the future successes.

           

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dominic Giroux, President, Laurentian University (Left), Ian Telfer, Chair of Goldcorp Inc. (centre) and Dr. Bruce Jago, Executive Director, Goodman School of Mines (Right)