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Using applied geology to discover large copper and gold mines in Arizona, Chile, and Peru : oral history transcript / 1999.
BANC MSS 2001/59 pz; Phonotape 3130 C:1-15
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Title:
Using applied geology to discover large copper and gold mines in Arizona, Chile, and Peru : oral history transcript / 1999Western mining in the twentieth century oral history series
Creator/Contributor:
Lowell, J. David, 1928-, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Swent, Eleanor, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Lowell, Currier pioneer families in Arizona; working in father's mines during Depression years; Arizona School of Mines, 1945-1949;
mine engineer for ASARCO, 1949-1951; geologist, AEC, 1951-1954; a year at Stanford University; exploration geologist, Ranwick,
Southwest Ventures, Utah Construction, 1955-1959; independent consultant from 1960, associated with major mine discoveries:
Kalamazoo extension, Vekol Hills, Casa Grande West, AZ; Escondida, Zaldivar, San Cristobal, Leonor, Chile; Los Pinos, Los
Calatos, Paron, La Pierina, Peru; discusses developing theory of concentric zoning of porphyry copper deposits, alliances
with international mining companies, problems in business in Latin America, negotiations with Barrick for sale of La Pierina.
Date:
1999 (issued)Subject:
n-us-az -- s-cl--- -- s-pe---Copper mines and mining -- Arizona
Copper mines and mining -- Chile
Copper mines and mining -- Peru
Gold mines and mining -- Arizona
Gold mines and mining -- Chile
Gold mines and mining -- Peru
Geologists -- Interviews
Note:
J. David Lowell ; with an introduction by John M. Guilbert. Interviews conducted by Eleanor Swent in 1998. 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/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3130 C:1-15.
Also available online.
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.
Volume includes index.
Type:
biographyOral histories.
Physical Description:
print
1 v. (xx, 283 p.) : ill., ports. ; 29 cm.
15 sound cassettes.
Language:
English
Identifier:
http://nma.berkeley.edu/ark:/28722/bk0005z1361
BANC MSS 2001/59 pz
Phonotape 3130 C:1-15
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
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.