Mining career with ASARCO, Kaiser Steel, Consolidation Coal, Homestake, 1955 to 1995 : oral history transcript : junior engineer to chairman of the board / Harry M. Conger III ; with introduction by C. Lee Emerson. Interviews conducted by Eleanor Swent in 1999 and 2000. Regional Oral History Office,

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Mining career with ASARCO, Kaiser Steel, Consolidation Coal, Homestake, 1955 to 1995 : oral history transcript : junior engineer to chairman of the board / Harry M. Conger III ; with introduction by C. Lee Emerson. Interviews conducted by Eleanor Swent in 1999 and 2000. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2001.

Childhood in Depression years; Colorado School of mines; from junior engineer to shift boss with ASARCO, mine operation, mining methods; Kaiser Steel, Eagle Mountain iron mine, experiments with new equipment, explosives, management of operations, company housing; Balmer coal mine, B.C., mining methods, sales contracts to Japanese, project design and construction; Consolidation Coal Co., Midwest division, company organization; 1975-1995; Homestake Mining Co., vice president to chairman, discusses corporate organization, board of directors, government relations, international gold market, stockholder relations, project financing, mining law, mining camp social life; director, PG & E, electric power deregulation; trustee, Caltech; discusses community fund raising activities.

Transcript: 1 v. (xix, 324 p.) : port. ; 29 cm.Phonotapes: 17 sound cassettes.

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According to the University of California, Berkeley Bancroft Library website: "The Regional Oral History Office (ROHO) is a research program of the University of California, Berkeley, working within The Bancroft Library. ROHO conducts, teaches, analyzes, and archives oral and video history documents in a broad variety of subject areas critical to the history of California and the United States." For more information regarding the ROHO and their work please consult their website: http://bancroft....

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Consolidation Coal Company (Maryland): The Consolidation Coal Company was incorporated in Maryland on March 8, 1860, for the purpose of effecting a merger of a number of coal operators mining the Georges Creek basin in Allegany County, Maryland. Because of the Civil War, during which Confederate armies frequently blocked the region's only outlet to market, the company was not actually organized until April 19, 1864. Starting life as the dominant operator in this small but significan...

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The origins of Homestake Mining Company date back to 1876 when Moses and Fred Manuel began prospecting for gold in the Black Hills on the Wyoming-South Dakota border. On April 9, 1876, they established the Homestake Mine. On November 5, 1877, George Hearst of San Francisco, along with Lloyd Tevis and James Haggin negotiated a deal with the Manuel Brothers to incorporate and the Homestake Mining Company was formed. Until about 1950, the company's main interest was in gold. After 1950 the company ...

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