Robert Buchan Net Worth, Income, Salary, Earnings, Biography

The mining engineer, businessman, and philanthropist Robert M Buchan is of Scottish-Canadian descent. Kinross Gold was established by him in 1993. It is currently the third-largest gold mining firm in North America, behind Barrick and Newmont. Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh), where he studied mining, awarded him his degree in 1969. 

Buchan was born and raised in the Fife town of Rosyth. In 1972, he graduated with honours from Queen’s University with a Masters of Science in Mining Engineering. His alma school, Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, in Canada, received a gift of £6 million in 2009 to support mining education. The Robert M. Buchan Department of Mining was established at the university in his honour, and the Robert M. Buchan Department of Mining was established in his honour. 

In September 2010, it was announced that Buchan would be donating £1.3 million to his alma mater, the University of Glasgow, to help fund their research into sustainable energy engineering. This was the largest single donation the university had ever received from an individual, according to the university. In addition, he has made a donation of £650,000 to Carnegie College in Fife in order to aid in the establishment of the Whitlock Energy Collaboration Centre.

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