Blaylock, Selwyn Gwillym

BLAYLOCK, Selwyn Gwillym, metallurgist, COMINCO executive (b 1879, Paspébiac, QC; d 1945). After graduating from McGill Univ in 1899 he came west to the KOOTENAY to work at the TRAIL smelter owned by the CPR. In 1906, when Canadian Pacific created Cominco, he was the new company's chief metallurgist. He worked on a team that developed a successful method of separating the complex ores of the SULLIVAN MINE, enabling it to expand rapidly during the 1920s despite a slump in world metal prices. By...

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