b'PeopleNewsHans Lundberg: Canadas (and possibly the Worlds) first minerals geophysicist is inducted into the Canadian Mining Hall of Famewho were seen as laying the foundationsA life livedfor modern geochemical practice in North America. Lundergs role was such that heNo formal biography or autobiography has been called the father of Canadianof Lundberg exists. If he kept a diary, it geochemistry (Brummer, Gleeson, andhas not been preserved. While the official Hansuld 1987). He presented over 70records show he travelled extensively, papers on geophysical and geochemicalindirect evidence suggests he travelled technology at meetings in North Americamuch more than has been documented. and Europe. He developed what weThe available record consists of dozens would now call best practice as to howof professional papers spanning to conduct modern exploration, andthe 1920s1950s, plus a number of had a strong entrepreneurial flare thatmagazine articles about Lundberg, the allowed him to draw many investorsmost significant being in the Macleans into his projects. He shared a vision formagazine (Newman 1957). As well, a Ken Witherly the future of exploration that in manycollection of business papers donated Condor Consulting, Inc. respects was uncannily accurate into the Archives of Ontario provide some ken@condorconsult.com describing the world fifty years aheadadditional background on Lundbergs of the one in which he lived. Whilecomplex life. Given the importance of the many significant contributors cameBuchans discovery to the Newfoundland Introduction after Lundberg, he stands as a titan whoand Labrador economy and mining in truly led the way. In 2020 Lundberg wasCanada, Lundbergs role in this event Hans Lundberg was a geoscientistinducted into the Canadian Mining Hallwas well documented. The exploration whose career spanned the first half ofof Fame in recognition of his enormousindustry for much of Lundbergs early the 20th century. He was part Indianacontributions to the minerals industrycareer (pre-World War 2) was for the most Jones, part Howard Hughes and partand exploration in particular during itspart a few individuals experimenting Jules Verne. He was born in 1893 incritical formative era. with techniques they had developed Malm, Sweden and died in 1971 inor modified from the work of others. Toronto, Canada. Early in his career, heEquipment manufacturing or survey discovered significant extensions tocompanies did not exist in the form the Buchans ore body (Newfoundlandthey do now. However, some comments Canada) and finished with a scorefrom the era suggest that opportunists card of being directly involved in theabounded and in the absence of any discovery of mineral deposits worthformal professional regulation, much $CAN5B in 29 countries, many of whichpractice of questionable value was became mines. He developed the firstcarried out. Many of Lundbergs early functioning airborne electromagneticcareer talks and publications were of a (EM) system for minerals prospecting andtutorial nature, as he tried to pass on the was an early adaptor of aeromagneticbasics of survey systems and the best survey techniques, including thepractice in their use. His technological first to apply helicopters to carryingreach expanded enormously post-magnetic sensors. He fostered the earlyWorld War II, when he could finally development of airborne radiometrics,acquire high resolution geophysical and experimented with an early versiondata from an aircraft. While detailed of airborne gravity. His interests were notrecords are lacking, there is more than confined to minerals and he providedenough evidence that Lundbergs teams consulting services for the oil industry.travelled the world performing surveys Besides the pursuit of mineral and oilfor minerals and oil, both it seems on deposits, Lundberg successfully applieda straight fee-for service basis and for geophysical techniques to hunt fora possible piece of the action. While evidence of early humans in what is nowLundberg made early contributions to central Mexico, and to locating meteoriteairborne EM technology, in the 1950s he fragments inside a crater in the Arizonachose to, in effect, pause his own efforts desert. He was an early proponent ofand wait for the new technology that was the value of petrophysics to help designbeing developed in Scandinavia. In this and interpret survey results. While neverHans Lundberg at a joint USGS-GSC meeting onperiod as well, he developed an interest his primary focus, Lundberg played aaeromagnetic technology in Ottawa, Septemberin airborne gravity. The complexity of critical role in advocating the early use1946. The USGS was using Gulf technology, butairborne gravity measurement was not of exploration geochemistry in Canada,Hans Lundberg built his own equipment to avoidappreciated in this era, and Lundberg encouraging a number of key scientistspatent issues. was seen to have attached his energies FEBRUARY 2020 PREVIEW 12'