Papers, 1909-1961.

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Papers, 1909-1961.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29013264

Collection includes files of correspondence, maps, notes, photographs, sketches, and structural studies, on various mining properties (1924-1961); 3 manuscripts, 2 written with Locke; maps; notebooks, including sketches, maps, and cross sections; reports on various mining properties; 3 boxes of slides; a diary of a 1924 trip to Chile; and miscellaneous essays, speeches, and lectures.

8 cubic ft. (18 boxes)

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7267692

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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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...

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...