Papers, 1887-1977 (bulk 1910-1970).

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Papers, 1887-1977 (bulk 1910-1970).

Collection includes mining reports, maps, legal documents, and business correspondence related to Lindsley's mining interests. United States files include materials on over forty states, with extensive files on Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming mining properties. Foreign country files are global in scope, with most extensive coverage of Canada, Mexico, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mauritania, Morocco, Nicaragua, and Peru and lesser amounts on many other countries. Most commercially important metals, minerals and fuel resources are represented.

101.7 cubic ft. (226 boxes)

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Falconbridge Nickel Mines Limited

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Lindsley, Thayer, 1882-1976.

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Thayer Lindsley, a mining executive, was born in 1882 in Yokahama, Japan to American parents. He studied civil engineering at Harvard and did post graduate work in geology at Columbia University. He made his first mining profits in the Pacific Northwest and northern Ontario in the early 1920s and in 1928 founded Ventures Ltd., a Canadian holding company with worldwide mining interests. At the height of his career, Lindsley held the presidency of 10 mining companies, directorships in 15 others, a...

Ventures Limited.

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