Myles Alexander Walsh (1912-1984), a mining engineer, spent the bulk of his career in foreign mining operations. After graduating from Harvard in 1933, he worked for the Homesake Mining Company in Lead, South Dakota from 1933-1937, Cerro de Pasco Copper Corporation in Peru from 1938-1939, and Ayrshire Collieries Corp. in Indianapolis, Indiana from 1940-1941. During World War II he was employed by two agencies of the Reconstruction Finance Agency, Metals Reserve Company's Cuban manganese and chrome operations from 1942-1944, and Rubber Development Corporation's wild rubber operations in Venezuela, Trinidad and British Guiana from 1945-1946. Walsh was employed by the government of Afghanistan from 1947-1951, by Diamond Distributers, Inc. in French Equatorial Africa from 1952-1953, and from 1954-1956 by J.G. White Engineering Corporation in Taiwan. Walsh worked in Bolivia for Ford, Bacon & Davis, Inc. from 1957-1959, and was a consultant engineer for the Turkish government from 1960-1964. He was a privately employed mining consultant for the remainder of his career.
From the description of Papers, 1910-1984. (University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center). WorldCat record id: 29434741
