Mining and metallurgical engineer oral history transcript : the Philippine Islands, Dorr, Humphreys, Kaiser Engineers Companies / with an introduction by John F. Havard ; interviews conducted by Eleanor Swent in 1990 and 1991; Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of Califor

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Mining and metallurgical engineer oral history transcript : the Philippine Islands, Dorr, Humphreys, Kaiser Engineers Companies / with an introduction by John F. Havard ; interviews conducted by Eleanor Swent in 1990 and 1991; Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. [c1992]

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"Education, Colorado School of Mines; WWII internment, the Philippine Islands, 1941-1945; research engineer, Dorr Company, 1945-1948; metallurgist, Humphreys Companies, 1948-1956: developing manganese mine, Blythe, CA; project engineer, Kaiser Engineers, 1957-1990: Tata Project (Jamshedpur, India), Bong Mining Company (Libraria), El Teniente Mine (Chile), DOGEGEO (Brazil), research on mischmetal, zinc batteries for electric-powered vehicles, tiles for space shuttles, burying nuclear waste, magnesium production in Norway; independent consulting; Powerhorn Titanium Mine (Colorado), Real de Buenavista Mine (Mexico), by-product gold recovery from gravel"--Cataloging information, prelim. p. [3].

xiii, 127 p. , bound : port. ; 29 cm.

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