Arthur H. Shore

Arthur Herbert Shore (born 19 May 1893) was a mineral prospector and the first person set up a uranium mine in Faraday Township, Ontario. He co-founded and managed the Reeves feldspar Mine and founded the Faraday Uranium Mine. His uranium prospecting, according to Bayne in 1977, led to the "greatest uranium prospecting rush in the world." His parents were Arthur Shore 1865-1937 and Mary Margaret Emiline McNaughton 1865–1910. He was the middle child of five with 4 sisters.

Career Shore worked in Bancroft as a box maker, as a dairy worker, and as a miner in Cobalt, Ontario.

In partnership with Roy Munnings, they mined 1,190 tons of feldspar Shore employed four workers at the mine. in 1948 or 1949, Shore discovered uranium at a lot in Faraday Township. The exact location was lot 15, concession A, a mile from Highway 28, 5 miles south of Bancroft.

Shore attempted to raise funds to develop the property, but was initially unsuccessful as potential investors were discouraged the perception that the geology in Bancroft was incompatible with the economical extraction of uranium.

Shore dug trenches and stripped rock himself, employing geologists and engineers when needed, before seriously injuring himself. Shore discovered uranium mineralization at the Eagle Nest Occurrence, 1.3 km northeast of Bancroft, in 1956. The same year, Shore held shares in Burma Shores Mines Limited, a company incorporated in Toronto that had mineral rights in the plots adjacent to Faraday Mine, in Cardiff, Ontario. The company was dissolved in April 1965.

Later life and death

Shore retired to Trout Creek Nursing Home in Burks Falls after finding out he had cancer. He died 10 July 1958.