Murray Edmund Watts, was a Canadian mining engineer and prospector

Prospecting

Prospecting is the physical search for minerals, fossils, precious metals or mineral specimens, and is also known as fossicking.Prospecting is a small-scale form of mineral exploration which is an organised, large scale effort undertaken by mineral resource companies to find commercially viable ore...

 He is known for a series of important ore discoveries in the Arctic regions, beginning at the age of 22,and continuing through a long career.

Mineral Discoveries

He is credited with the following mineral discoveries:

• Raglan
  Raglan
  Raglan is a small beachside town located 48 km west of Hamilton, New Zealand on State Highway 23. The population was 2,637 at the 2006 New Zealand Census.- History :...
  
  nickel
  Nickel
  Nickel is a chemical element with the chemical symbol Ni and atomic number 28. It is a silvery-white lustrous metal with a slight golden tinge. Nickel belongs to the transition metals and is hard and ductile...
  
   deposits, Cape Smith belt, Ungava
  Ungava
  Ungava may refer to:* Ungava Peninsula, in northern Quebec* Ungava , Quebec's largest and most northern provincial riding* Ungava Bay, on the northern coast of Quebec, on Hudson Strait...
  
  region of Quebec
  Quebec
  Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
  
  , Canada -- a discovery made at the age of 22
• Asbestos Hill asbestos deposits, Ungava region of Quebec, Canada (once operated by the Asbestos Corporation)
• Mary River
  Mary River (Nunavut)
  Mary River is located on Baffin Island about northwest of Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut, and about southwest of Pond Inlet. It is home to iron ore deposits discovered in 1962 by Murray Edmund Watts and Ron Sheardown....
  
   iron
  Iron
  Iron is a chemical element with the symbol Fe and atomic number 26. It is a metal in the first transition series. It is the most common element forming the planet Earth as a whole, forming much of Earth's outer and inner core. It is the fourth most common element in the Earth's crust...
  
   deposits, Baffin Island
  Baffin Island
  Baffin Island in the Canadian territory of Nunavut is the largest island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, the largest island in Canada and the fifth largest island in the world. Its area is and its population is about 11,000...
  
  , Canada
• "47”-zone copper deposit, Coppermine River
  Coppermine River
  The Coppermine River is a river in the North Slave and Kitikmeot regions of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut in Canada. It is long. It rises in Lac de Gras, a small lake near Great Slave Lake and flows generally north to Coronation Gulf, an arm of the Arctic Ocean...
  
   area, Northwest Territories
  Northwest Territories
  The Northwest Territories is a federal territory of Canada.Located in northern Canada, the territory borders Canada's two other territories, Yukon to the west and Nunavut to the east, and three provinces: British Columbia to the southwest, and Alberta and Saskatchewan to the south...
  
  , Canada

Career

He was also known as a manager for mining companies. He was mine superintendent of Canadian Malartic Gold Mines and general manager of Little Long Lac Gold Mines  (1948-56). In 1962, he founded the international geological and mining consulting firm, Watts, Griffis and McOuat Limited

Watts, Griffis and McOuat Limited

- Summary : is one of Canada's longest running independent firms of geological and mining consultants. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, the firm provides professional services to the global mineral resource industry, including exploration project management, property valuations, Mineral Resource...

 with co-founders Arthur Thomas Griffis and Jack McOuat.

Awards

• Canadian Mining Hall of Fame
  Canadian Mining Hall of Fame
  The Canadian Mining Hall of Fame aims to recognize the accomplishments of leaders in the mining industry.It was conceived by Maurice R. Brown as a way to recognize and honor the legendary mine finders and builders of this Canadian industry. The Hall was established in 1988...
  
   Inductee (1989)
• Order of Canada
  Order of Canada
  The Order of Canada is a Canadian national order, admission into which is, within the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, the second highest honour for merit...
  
  
• Massey Medal
  Massey Medal
  The Royal Canadian Geographical Society awards the Massey Medal annually to recognize outstanding personal achievement in the exploration, development or description of the geography of Canada. The award was established in 1959, by the Massey Foundation, named for industrialist Hart...
  
  of the Canadian Geographical Society.