Dome Mines Limited was a Canadian mining company that existed from 1910 to 1987. It has been the largest gold producer in Canada and in North America. The company was formed to operate the

Dome Mine Dome Mine is situated in the City of Timmins, Ontario, Canada; and was developed during the Porcupine Gold Rush. Last operated by Canadian company Goldcorp, before it became a subsidiary of American company Newmont, it is one of three mines ( ...

Timmins, Ontario Timmins ( ) is a city in northeastern Ontario, Canada, located on the Mattagami River. The city is the fourth-largest city in the Northeastern Ontario region with a population of 41,145 at the 2021 Canadian census and an estimated population o ...

, and expanded to operate mines in Ontario and Quebec. Subsidiary

Dome Petroleum Dome Petroleum Limited was a Canadian independent petroleum company that existed between 1950 and 1988. The company was founded as a subsidiary of Dome Mines and was built by Jack Gallagher, who remained with the company until 1983. In 1988 Dom ...

was formed in 1950. The company was merged into

Placer Dome Placer Dome Inc. was a large mining company specializing in gold and other precious metals, with corporate headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In August 2005, the company had interests in 16 gold mining operations in 7 countries ...

in 1987, which in turn was acquired by

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in 2006.

History

Headquartered in

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, Dome was established in 1910 to operate the Dome Mine in Timmins, Ontario after a major discovery by a group working for W. S. Edwards in May 1909. The company later became Canada's largest gold producer. Dome Mine 2

For most of its existence, Dome Mines was Canada's largest gold producer. Workers for subsidiary Dome Exploration, discovered the ore that became the Campbell Mine in Balmertown in 1944. Dome Exploration then became Campbell Red Lake Mines Limited. Other subsidiaries were Kiena Gold Mines Limited and Sigma Mines in Quebec. The company entered the petroleum industry in 1950 with the creation of

. In 1987, under the leadership of Fraser M. Fell, Dome merged with the

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mining company Placer Development to form

. The new merged entity became the largest mining company in North America. In 2006

acquired Placer Dome.

Leadership

President

# John F. H. McCarthy, 1910 # William S. Edwards, 1911 #

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, 1912–1914 # Joseph Raphael de la Mar, 1915–1918 # Jules Semon Bache, 1919–1942 # Clifford William Michel, 1943–1958 # James Botterell Redpath, 1959–1977 # Malcolm Auguste Taschereau, 1978–1983 # Charles Henry Brehaut, 1983–1987

Chairman of the Board

# Jules Semon Bache, 1943–1944 # Clifford William Michel, 1959–1976 # Maj-Gen Albert Bruce Matthews, 1976–1983 # Fraser Matthews Fell, 1983–1987

References

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