Title:
Independent small mines operator, 1948 to 1999, Corona Mine : oral history transcript / 2000
Western mining in the twentieth century oral history series
Creator/Contributor:
Ingle, Hugh C., 1923-1999, creator, interviewee.
Creator/Contributor:
Swent, Eleanor, interviewer.
Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.
Abstract:
Growing up with mining: pocket and placer gold mines in Oregon; Naval Air Reserve fighter pilot, 1943-1983, combat in Korea;
Corona Mine, CA operations and mercury recovery processes, 1955-1970, reclamation 1998-1999; managing and operating other
small mines in California and Nevada; mining consultant in Brazil, Congo, Mexico; coal mine research for U.S. Bureau of Mines;
service on Nevada Commission on Mineral Resources, 1991-1999; discusses mine safety, solving geological and metallurgical
problems, ore sampling and grade control, peculiarities of manganese, dredging for tantalum, mine leasing, adverse effect
of government regulations on small mines.
Date:
2000 (issued)
Subject:
n-us-ca -- n-us-nv
Corona Mine (Calif.)
Nevada. -- Commission on Mineral Resources.
Mines and mineral resources -- West (U.S.)
Mining engineers -- West (U.S.) -- Interviews
Note:
Hugh C. Ingle, Jr. ; with an introduction by John S. Livermore. Interviews conducted by Eleanor Swent in 1998 and 1999. Regional
Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Forms part of the Western mining in the twentieth century 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 3077 C:1-9.
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:
biography
Oral histories.
Physical Description:
print
1 v. (xvii, 181 p.) : port. ; 29 cm.
9 sound cassettes.
Language:
English
Identifier:
http://nma.berkeley.edu/ark:/28722/bk0005z1160
BANC MSS 2000/80 c
Phonotape 3077 C:1-9
Origin:
California
Copyright 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.