Argall, George O. (George Oates)
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George Oates Argall Jr., a mining engineer, was born in Denver, Colorado, in 1913. He graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in 1935 with a B.S. in Mining Engineering. From 1935 to 1942 he worked for mining companies in Colorado, first as an engineer and later as a mine foreman.
In 1942 Argall joined the United States Navy and served as a lieutenant until 1946. He worked for the Reconstruction Finance Corporation from 1946 to 1947 and as a consulting engineer from 1948 to 1950. In 1950 he joined the staff of Mining World and later World Mining Magazine as an editor. By 1968 he was senior editor and publisher of World Mining as well as World Coal Magazine. From 1984 to 1985 he was the North American editorial director for International Mining until he retired to be a contributing editor to Engineering and Mining Journal.
Argall inspected mines in more than fifty countries and wrote several hundred articles on mining and milling operations. He also wrote "Occurrences and Production of Vanadium" and "Industrial Mines of Colorado." He received the American Business Press "Jesse H. Neal Award" in 1979 and was inducted into the American Mining Hall of Fame in 1991.
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