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Prospector, geologist, public resource advocate : oral history transcript : Carlin Mine discovery, 1961 : Nevada gold rush,
1970s / 2000.
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Prospector, geologist, public resource advocate : oral history transcript: Carlin Mine discovery, 1961 : Nevada gold rush, 1970s / 2000Western mining in the twentieth century oral history series
Creator/Contributor:
Livermore, John Sealy, 1918-2013, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Swent, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Herz), interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Fuerstenau, Maurice C., interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Livermore family in California from 1850, Montesol Ranch, Redington Oat Hill quicksilver mines; education: Miss Paul's School,
San Francisco, Thacher School, Ojai, CA, Stanford and early training in Alaska; WWII experiences: USGS Strategic Minerals
Program, Navy Civil Engineering Corps; geologist, 1946-52: El Paso Mines, CO, Humphreys Gold Corp., FL, Standard mine, NV;
Newmont Mining Co. 1952-70: Resurrection, Iowa Gulch mines, CO; Cuajone, Peru; exploration in Turkey, Iran, Chile, Ireland,
Spain; Ambrosia Lake, NM; Zellidja, Morocco; Algeria; Eureka, NV; Similkameen, BC; Carlin, NV, discovery, 1961; partner, Cordex
Syndicate, from 1970: Pinson Preble, Dee, Florida Canyon mines, NV; exploration, Colombia, Honduras, China; public service
activities in Nevada: mining law mediation, Walker Lake conservation, Mackay School of Mines; developing water resources at
Montesol Ranch; Corona mine, CA, reclamation; visit to Cuba, 1999-2000.
Date:
2000 (issued)Subject:
n-us-nvGeologists -- United States -- Interviews
Gold mines and mining -- Nevada
Mines and mineral resources -- West (U.S.)
Géologues -- États-Unis -- Entretiens
Or -- Mines et extraction -- Nevada
Mines and mineral resources
Gold mines and mining
Geologists
Carlin Mine (Nev.)
West United States
United States
Nevada -- Carlin Mine
Nevada
Cordex Syndicate.
Livermore, John Sealy -- 1918-2013 -- Interviews
Note:
John Sealy Livermore. Interviews conducted by Eleanor Swent in 1992, 1997, and 2000 and by Maurice Fuerstenau in 1997. Regional
Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Forms part of the Western mining in the twentieth century oral history series.
Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3191 C:1-12.
Also available online.
Volume includes index.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
biographyautobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Interviews
Autobiographies.
Oral histories.
Autobiographies.
Physical Description:
print
1 volume (xxiii, 241 pages) : portraits ; 29 cm
12 audiocassettes
Language:
English
Identifier:
http://nma.berkeley.edu/ark:/28722/bk0005z0v7g
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.