John Herold, a pioneering Sudbury mining supply entrepreneur, and founder of Herold Supply has died at the age of 80.
Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Herold moved to Toronto as a child, attending St. Michael’s College, followed by St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia where he earned a bachelor of science degree. Herold married in 1964 and eventually settled with his first wife, Judy, in Sudbury.
Recognizing the possibilities for collaboration amongst Sudbury’s diverse mining supply and service companies, Herold was one of four founding directors of SAMSSA (now MineConnect) when it launched in the early 2000s.
