Famous People with Name Joubin

Franc Renault Joubin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Franc Renault Joubin: was a prospector and geologist most well known for a huge uranium discovery in northeastern Ontario, Canada in 1953.A graduate of the University of British Columbia, (Masters,Geology (1942)), Joubin worked independently as a consultant and prospector/geologist for various mining promoters and exploration companies.In 1953, as an employee and eventual partner of promoter Joseph Hirshhorn, he persuaded his partner to finance diamond drilling of a previously dismissed area of surface radioactivity near Blind River, Ontario. Joubin's insight, with help from Dr. Charles Davidson, a leading British geologist, was that the presence of iron sulphide had leached the uranium mineral to a location deeper in the ground. Drilling results confirmed this and implied uranium deposits along a huge ninety mile Z-shaped geological formation extending north of the area. Known as the "Big Z" deposit, it became the hub of a frenzy of uranium exploration and mining activity