Probert, Alan.

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Alan Probert was a mining engineer and author. He was born in 1901 in London, England, and died March 18, 1985, in Laguna Hills, California. His wife, Lillie May Walker Probert, died in 1989. Alan Probert received a B.S. degree with honors from the University of California, Berkeley in 1925. In the same year he went to Nome, Alaska, to work as an engineer for Hammon Consolidated Goldfields. He went on to work in a number of mines and mining camps in California, Arizona, Nevada and Idaho before beginning a 23-year association with the United States Smelting Refining and Mining Company, for which he worked in Colorado, Utah, Alaska, and then for thirteen years with the Compañía de Real del Monte y Pachuca in Mexico. He later spent five years (1950-1955) with the U.S. Bureau of Mines in Mexico and Washington, D.C. From 1955-1961 he served as vice-president and general manager of the Compañía Minera de Guatemala, S.A. From 1961 until his retirement, Probert was a consulting engineer, employed exclusively in Latin America, for such firms as the International Nickel Company, Monsanto, and United Fruit Company.

While employed in Mexico, Probert developed an intense interest in Mexican mining history, particularly that of the state of Hidalgo. He researched and collected materials on mining in Mineral del Monte, focusing on the period of early British involvement in the years 1824-1829. His research interests included British technical expertise and mining history. He wrote on diverse subjects, most related to either mining or Mexico. Lillie Probert assisted her husband in his research, and was the author of at least one published article.

From the guide to the Alan & Lillie M. Probert Collection 33036851., 1687-1987, (Benson Latin American Collection, General Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin)

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creatorOf Alan & Lillie M. Probert Collection 33036851., 1687-1987 Benson Latin American Collection, General Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin
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associatedWith Buchan, John Hitchcock, 1803-1871 person
associatedWith Compañía de Real del Monte y Pachuca. corporateBody
associatedWith Company of Adventurers in the Mines of Real del Monte corporateBody
associatedWith Consejo de Recursos Naturales No Renovables (Mexico) corporateBody
associatedWith English, Henry, 1803-1855 person
associatedWith Finlay, George Irving, 1876- person
associatedWith Gil, Isidro. person
associatedWith Guenyveau, A. person
associatedWith Henson, Margaret Swett, 1924- person
associatedWith Holeski, Carolyn Jean. person
associatedWith Probert, Lillie May Walker. person
associatedWith Regla, counts of. family
associatedWith Romero de Terreros family. family
associatedWith Romero de Terreros, Manuel, marques de San Francisco, 1880-1968 person
associatedWith Rule, John, d. 1866 person
associatedWith Stone, George Cameron. person
associatedWith Strouse, Pierre A. D. person
associatedWith Vetch, James, 1789-1869 person
associatedWith Western States Jewish Historical Society. corporateBody
associatedWith World Conference on Records (1980 : Salt Lake City, Utah) corporateBody
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Mineral del Monte (Mexico)
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Mining corporations
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