Silver Standard in the news: Silver boss set a new Standard. He had a quality Teck spotted and a glittering career was born

By Paul Luke, The Province
August 30, 2009 3:17 PM

Vancouver-based Silver Standard Resources' president and CEO Bob Quartermain (right) in the field, inspecting a high-grade joint gold-and-silver project at San Luis in Peru.Photograph by: Handout, Silver Standard ResourcesAcid-tongued promoters in Vancouver's Howe Street might have sneered when Bob Quartermain became head of Silver Standard Resources in 1985.

Quartermain, then 29, couldn't read a balance sheet. He'd never met an accountant or a lawyer.

He didn't didn't own a suit.

Worst of all, unctuous hyperbole didn't quite flow like holy oil from his plain-spoken lips.

Still doesn't.

Sure, Quartermain was a smart exploration geologist. But lots of bright boys with sharp technical skills prove to be lousy company builders. Why would Teck, which owned 32 per cent of Silver Standard, have offered the job to an unproven bush rat?

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