Papers, 1909-1968 (bulk 1909-1940).

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Papers, 1909-1968 (bulk 1909-1940).

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The collection includes 18 boxes of research files arranged by geographic location. There are 18 boxes of reports written chiefly by Augustus Locke and H.M. Kingsbury as well as some by George Tunnel, P.F. Boswell, Roland Blanchard, E.H. Wisser, Paul Billingsley and E.H. Perry. Many of the reports authored by Locke were addressed to the Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Company. There are 3 boxes of card files which index the research files and reports. There are also 100 pieces of correspondence (1915-1917); 36 maps (chiefly from the Miami Copper Company); and approximately 300 photographs.

30.65 cubic ft. (40 boxes)

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Perry, Edward H.

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Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Company

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The Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Company, which traces its founding to 1864, was the most successful corporation to have mined native copper on Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Through nearly a century of mining activity, the company produced in excess of 4.5 billion pounds of refined copper and issued over $200 million in shareholder dividends. Unlike many of its competitors along the Keweenaw Peninsula, Calumet and Hecla successfully expanded its operations over several separate mineral bo...

Boswell, Paul Frederick.

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Miami Copper Company.

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Kingsburg, H. M.

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Wisser, Edward Hollister.

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Locke, Augustus, 1883-

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Augustus Locke (1883-1981) was a geologist and expert on the technique of leached outcrop interpretation in mineral prospecting. He earned his Sc. D. degree from Harvard in 1913 and worked as a staff geologist for the Goldfields Consolidated Mining Company, Nevada, (1910) and Cia Minera Los Dos Estrellas, Mexico (1911-1912) before joining the Secondary Enrichment Investigation, financed by a group of major copper companies (1913-1915). He did subsequent scouting work in North America for the Cal...

Billingsley, Paul Raymond, 1887-

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Paul Billingsley (1887-1962) worked as a geologist and mine examiner in the United States and South America from 1910-1924. From 1925 on, he was a consultant to mining and smelting companies. Most of his work was in the western and northwestern United States and British Columbia. Billingsley had numerous published papers on ore deposition and structures, some written in collaboration with Augustus Locke. From the description of Papers, 1909-1961. (University of Wyoming, American Heri...

Blanchard, Roland, 1890-1966

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