Richard Porritt

Richard Valentine Porritt (February 14, 1901 - 1985) was a Canadian mining industry executive and an inductee to the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame.

Porritt was born in Barrie, Ontario and attended the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston until 1917. He was student number 1309. Afterwards, he attended McGill University where he obtained a Bachelor of Science in mining in 1922. He worked as a miner at British America Nickel and then at International Nickel Company's Creighton mine in Sudbury.

He worked as a surveyor at Noranda Mines for 48 years from 1926 to 1974. He brought the Waite-Amulet mine near Rouyn, Quebec into production in 1927. In 1955, he was general manager of Noranda subsidiary Gaspé Copper Mines during the development and startup of the Gaspé copper mine in eastern Quebec. Porritt was appointed general manager of Gaspé Copper, a Noranda subsidiary, in September, 1952. In 1964, he became president of Noranda and vice-chairman in 1968 before retiring in 1974. He died in 1985, eleven years after retirement.

References

* [http://www.halloffame.mining.ca/halloffame/english/hall.html Richard Porritt's biography at the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame]