Minerals and critical materials management
Subtitle: military and government administrator and mining executive, 1941-1987
By: interview conducted by Eleanor Swent ; with introductions by Simon D. Strauss, G. Frank Joklik, James K. Richardson ; Regional Oral History Office,
Contributors: Swent, Eleanor.; Strauss, Simon David, 1911-; Joklik, Günther Franz, 1928-; Richardson, James K.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Publisher: University of California
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Subjects: Clay, Lucius D. 1897-1978.; United States. Bureau of Mines.; Kennecott Copper Corporation.; United States. National Commission on Materials Policy.; Copper Range Company.; Colorado School of Mines.; American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers.; Mines and mineral resources -- United States.
Other titles: Western mining in the twentieth century oral history series.; The future of exploration and the mineral industries.
Description: Speaks about his wide-ranging career in several fields: in engineering education as dean of the Colorado School of Mines; in the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers as colonel and deputy to General Lucius Clay; in government service as director of the U. S. Bureau of Mines; in industry as vice president of Kennecott Corporation and president of Copper Range Company ; in public service as executive director of the National Commission on Materials Policy and as chairman of the Committee on Surface Mining and Reclamation of the National Academy of Sciences. He served his profession as a leader in the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME), the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America (MMSA), the American Mining Congress and the National Academy of Engineering.