Working for safety and health in underground mines
Subtitle: San Luis and Homestake mining companies, 1946-1988
By: Langan W. Swent. Includes interviews with Eleanor H. Swent ; with introductions by Richard Stoehr and Laura Madsen. Interviews conducted by Malca Chall in 1987-1988, 1994. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Swent, Eleanor.; Chall, Malca.; Stoehr, Richard.; Madsen, Laura.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1995
Subjects: San Luis Mining Company; Homestake Mining Company; Mining engineers -- Interviews; Mines and mineral resources -- Mexico -- Tayoltita; Mines and mineral resources -- South Dakota; Mines and mineral resources -- Missouri; Mines and mineral resources -- Michigan; Mines and mineral resources -- Australia; Mines and mineral resources -- Peru; Mine safety; Mineral industries -- Health aspects
Other titles: Western mining in the twentieth century oral history series.
Description: Langan Swent discusses his family and youth in Tayoltita, Mexico; studies at Stanford and at the University of California, Berkeley; service in Africa, Italy, and France during World War II; San Luis and Homestake mining companies; ventures in Missouri, Michigan, Australia, and Peru; mining health and safety standards; changes in corporate practices; mining technologies; management and personnel policies, politics and community relations; and foreign and domestic travel.