Horace P. Miller papers, 1927-1978.

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Horace P. Miller papers, 1927-1978.

Collection contains Horace P. Miller's business records from his time with Cerro Corporation. The records, which concern Cerro Corporation's mining activities in Chile and Peru between the 1920s and 1970s, consist of subject files (which contain correspondence, clippings, financial documents, legal documents, notes, and printed materials), financial files, legal files, reports, a photograph album (documenting a 1965 blizzard at Cerro Corporation's Rio Blanco Mine in Chile), and printed materials. A bound set of Cerro Corporation annual reports and an M.A. thesis about the history of Cerro Corporation by Francis Roser are in this collection as well.

3.0 cubic ft. (3 boxes)

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Miller, Horace P.

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Horace P. Miller was an American mining company executive during the twentieth century. Miller was manager of Cerro Corporation's Oil and Gas Division and Vice President of its subsidiary company Cerro de Pasco Petroleum Corporation. He left Cerro Corporation in 1972 and became a petroleum consultant in California. From the description of Horace P. Miller papers, 1927-1978. (University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center). WorldCat record id: 156860034 ...

Cerro Corporation

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The Cerro Corporation began in 1902 with the development of a Peruvian mining project. The company was originally called the Cerro de Pasco Copper Company and had its headquarters in New York City. Within 10 years, it had assets of more than 60 million dollars. Cerro was acquired by the Marmon Group in the 1970s, and at that time had mining, trucking, real estate, and manufacturing interests. From the description of Cerro Corporation records, 1887-1974. (University of Wyoming, Americ...