Lakehead University Geology - Journal Yearbook (Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada)

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Gordon Yule Nickname: ' Gotts Dam ' Work Experience: Geophysical Operator, Noranda, N.W. Ontario, Winter-Summer 1974 Junior-Senior Assistant, Noranda, N.W. Ontario, (Uranium) Summer 1975 Contract Staking, Winter 1975 Junior-Senior Assistant, Noranda, N.W. Ontario, (Basemetals) Summer 1976 Contract Staking, Winter 1976 Senior Mapper, Gulf Minerals, N.W.T., N.W. Ontario, (Uranium) Summer 1977 Contract Staking, Winter 1977 This native of Longlac is a renowned O.K. used snowshoe salesman whose territories extend from the balmy regions of Longlac to the barrens of the Northwest Territories. When we cornered this man in the murky depths of the Waverly Hotel, (noted for its fine clientel) he recounted this tale of the dreaded geologic plague known as Marathon Madness ; T ' was way back in ' 76, when one of my associates from Wiley St. said that we were gonna go on a little class field trip to this here place called Marathon on a real futile exercise. After seven days and what seemed like forty nights the work had just begun! We worked and griped, we sweated and cursed, we complained and thought that our work was in vain; after all, we weren ' t going back there again. ha: When the field season came in ' 77 I had all but forgotten Marathon Madness and the curse that lay on the place, but sure enough, the first job of the season was in that dreaded place- Marathon Well, all I can tell you is that the class trip in ' 76 came in real handy. I figured there was a moral in there someplace and it goes something like this: you can ' t believe all your Profs all the time, but you ' ve got to believe some of the Profs some of the time. Well, I kind of wondered about this guy and 1 decided to find out what he ' d been up to in the last few years, and this is what I came up with. Well, it seems that he started out in this doomed profession in the winter of ' 74 as a geophysical operator for a company called Noranda Exploration and stuck it out for a full three field seasons and came out as a Junior- Senior Geologic Assistant in ' 76. When I met him in ' 77, he was working for another company called Gulf Minerals Canada as a Senior Assistant Geologist and had just finished a stint north of the Arctic Circle. Seems this guy has worked in everything from base metals to uranium using geologic and geophysical methods of prospecting. Last 1 heard of him, he had just been certified as an honest to goodness PROSPECTOR by the Prospector and Developers Association.

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